Sentences with phrase «teacher of the same race»

Not everyone agrees that schools should be focusing efforts on matching students with teachers of the same race.

The study found that when students had teachers of the same race as them, they reported feeling more cared for, more interested in their schoolwork and more confident in their teachers» abilities to communicate with them.

Thomas Dee's finding («The Race Connection,» Research, Spring 2004) that both white and black students learned more when taught by teachers of the same race has implications that go far beyond his discussion.

For both black boys and black girls, the effect of a same - race teacher (comparing teachers of the same gender) is larger than the effect of a same - gender teacher (comparing teachers of the same race).

Notably, black students did not seem to benefit much more from having more than one black teacher in grades 3 - 5 as compared to having just one — even a single teacher of the same race seemed to make a big difference.

At the same time, districts and organizations such as the New York City Department of Education have made a push to hire more teachers of color, motivated by findings showing that students of color do better in school if they have a teacher of the same race.

Anna Egalite and Brian Kisida wrote for Ed Next earlier this year about a study they conducted that found that black, white, and Asian students benefit from being assigned to a teacher of the same race.

Dee and Hanushek find that students benefit from having a teacher of the same race.

Scholars including Swarthmore College's Tom Dee and Stanford University's Eric Hanushek have reported, for instance, that students appear to benefit from having a teacher of the same race, suggesting that the matching of teachers and students contributes to the pattern of overall achievement gains.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

Teacher Race and School Discipline Are students suspended less often when they have a teacher of the same race?

Students of color are suspended more often than their white peers, but the rates of suspension and expulsion change when students have a teacher of the same race.

When sending their child to a school, parents presumably had fairly sound expectations regarding the probability that their child would be assigned a teacher of the same race.

On average, students» performance improved by roughly 2 to 3 percentile points during their first year with a teacher of the same race.

An admittedly indirect way to evaluate the effects of these unobserved differences in teacher quality is to consider how the performance gain associated with having a teacher of the same race varies across different types of schools.

Hanushek and Swarthmore's Tom Dee have reported, for instance, that students appear to benefit from having a teacher of the same race.

Likewise, a teacher of the same race may serve as a more effective role model, boosting students» confidence and enthusiasm for learning.

Looking at the data in this way also allows us to see what happens when students are assigned to a teacher of the same race for more than one year.

The authors of the new study, Anna J. Egalite and Brian Kisida wrote for Education Next last year about three different theories of why students might perform better when they have a teacher of the same race and how their study (which was then a working paper) helps illuminate the issue.

Only with that information is it possible to examine whether discipline rates vary for individual students based on whether they are placed with a teacher of the same race.

And the available studies, all of which rely on observational data to compare the test scores of students with different kinds of teachers, actually find that having a teacher of the same race has little impact.

Those findings raise a parallel question: Does having a teacher of the same race make it more or less likely that students are subject to exclusionary school discipline?

Carl Boisrond of NPR describes the findings of a new study that looks more closely at the impact on students of having a teacher of the same race.

To isolate the effects of having a teacher of the same race, we examine whether individual students are more or less likely to face exclusionary disciplinary consequences in years when they are matched to a same - race teacher compared to years when they are assigned to a teacher of a different race.

Including these observed teacher traits in the analysis had no appreciable effect on the performance gains associated with assignment to a teacher of the same race.

My research design effectively compared the performance of students assigned to teachers of the same race with the performance of students who were assigned to teachers of a different race but who were in the same grade and who entered the experiment in the same school and year.

By contrast, researchers have devoted considerable attention to studying racial disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes — and there is compelling evidence that when students have a teacher of the same race, they tend to learn more at school (see «The Race Connection,» research, Spring 2004).

Anna Egalite, an author of a recent study of the impact on student achievement of having a teacher of the same race, is interviewed in the segment.

However, it is important to note that, as one would expect, 96 percent of the students who had a teacher of the same race for four consecutive years were white.

Well - established evidence shows that having a teacher of the same race as students is associated with achievement benefits.

As one recent study found, «Relative to teachers of the same race and sex as the student, other - race teachers were 12 percentage points less likely to expect black students to complete a four - year college degree.»

Previous studies have suggested that K — 12 students may benefit from being taught by a teacher of the same race.

«Spending just one year with a teacher of the same race can move the dial on one of the most frustratingly persistent gaps in educational attainment — that of low - income black boys,» said author Nicholas Papageorge.