While the percentage of Latinx students is high and growing, less than 8 percent of the nation's teachers identify as such.5 The recent increase in the Latinx population means that the teacher diversity gap — as measured by subtracting the percentage of teachers6 of a certain race or ethnicity from the percentage of students7 of
that same race or ethnicity — is largest for Latinx students.
There are also concerns that charter advantages are rooted in new patterns of racial / ethnic segregation because white and minority families may choose schools with more children of
the same race or ethnicity.
And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share
the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.
Students were likely to end up in a classroom where more of their peers were of
the same race or ethnicity.
In addition, private schools with LSP enrollees are half as likely as public schools to be identified as racially homogeneous, which we define as having 90 percent of students belonging to
the same race or ethnicity.
Moreover, the study also considers the LSP's impact on student attendance at racially homogenous schools, defined in the study as schools «having 90 percent of students belonging to
the same race or ethnicity.»
Research indicates that minority students do better contemporaneously in school — and likely in the long run as well — when they are exposed to teachers of
their same race or ethnicity.
• Would you still desire them if they were
the same race or ethnicity as you?
Analyses by the National Center for Health Statistics, for example, indicate that marriages between spouses of
the same race or ethnicity have a lower divorce rate after 10 years than interracial or interethnic couples (31 percent versus 41 percent).
Being with someone of
the same race or ethnicity can be a common dating preference, and for black and biracial singles, BlackPeopleMeet is the place to search.
Just because you aren't
the same race or ethnicity as a foster care child doesn't mean that you can't provide them with the cultural knowledge and attention that they need.
Not exact matches
It could be that the
same results could be obtained by having a leadership team that was diverse in other ways — maybe economic background,
race or ethnicity, education,
or geography.
Same goes for any other
race or ethnicity.
Whether they're boys
or girls, whether they have average
or advanced
or impaired cognitive
or motor abilities, whether they're Asian
or Caucasian, Black
or Middle Eastern, Hispanic
or (as a growing number are worldwide) a unique blend of
races and
ethnicities, they all start out the
same... brand - new, innocent, precious beyond compare.
covariance with
ethnicity /
race and socio - economic attainment (i.e. people of the
same ethnic
or racial groups may have similar incomes, and in some cases socio - economic attainment affects racial
or ethnic identification as in the U.S. where as income rises, families who historically identified as latino begin to identify as white)
covariance with
ethnicity /
race and education (i.e. people of the
same ethnic
or racial groups may be of the
same educational groups, either due to opportunity
or prejudice)
«At the
same time, as the state's highest ranking elected woman and the Chair of the Commission celebrating this historic occasion, I am inspired by the next generation of young women who will carry the torch and fulfill our vision of equality and create a culture of respect and inclusion for all women, regardless of
race,
ethnicity, gender at birth,
or sexual orientation.»
They think that
race and
ethnicity should not be considered in teaching because this is a form of stereotyping
or is contrary to their beliefs that all students should be treated the
same.
Equity, when used in education, refers to all students receiving the
same caliber of education regardless of the neighborhood they live in
or their demographic characteristics, such as their
race,
ethnicity, special education status
or other factors.
[185] References to
race or ethnicity will be erroneous and offensive if a state actor concludes that a person of a given background is engaged in criminal activity because previous criminal activity has been linked to persons of the
same background (R. v. Nguyen, at para. 22).
Some adoptive families will decide to adopt a child of the
same racial background as themselves, while others will be open to,
or choose to adopt a child of a different
race or ethnicity.