Sentences with phrase «teachers of the same race as»

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.

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

Not exact matches

But, when the teacher and child were of a different race, the same family information seemed to overwhelm the teachers and the behaviors were perceived as being more severe.

In another part of the study, they investigate the effects of being randomly assigned to a same - race teacher as part of Tennessee's Project STAR class size experiment.

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.

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

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.

Moreover, many of these same policy makers justify increasing instructional time as part of the international education arms race while ignoring the fact that teachers in nations such as South Korea and Singapore only actually teach about 35 % of their work day compared to 80 % in the U.S. (Wei et al., 2009).

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.

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.

Starting in 1970, students and teachers of both races were transferred throughout the district «so that the ratio of Negro to white teachers in each school [was] substantially the same as such ratio to the teachers in the entire school system (Causey, 2001).»