This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of
teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.
Not exact matches
But because of a big decrease in the proportion of white students and the big increase in students of color,
especially of Latino students, the
teacher - student
diversity gaps have widened in some cases.
Their new report, Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain
Teachers of Color, includes recommendations intended to help policymakers increase
teacher workforce
diversity - an
especially important strategy to Read more about
Teachers of Color: In High Demand and Short Supply -LSB-...]
For all the reasons outlined above, increasing
teacher diversity is an important aspect of improving educational equity for all students —
especially for students of color.
The profession struggles to attract and retain
teachers (Archer, 1999),
especially teachers who represent the
diversity of the students we serve and the goals we embrace.
In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school
teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the
diversity gap is
especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic
teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black
teacher for every 22 black students.
It includes recommendations intended to help policymakers increase
teacher workforce
diversity — an
especially important strategy to advance greater cultural understanding and to combat achievement gaps.
Reflecting 10 years of dramatic change in early education —
especially in critical areas like assessment and cultural
diversity — the second edition of this bestseller gives
teachers up - to - date research, usable information, and essential tools to meet the needs of second language learners in today's learning environments.