Sentences with phrase «than white teachers»

And minority teachers leave teaching at higher rates than white teachers do.
Teacher turnover is increasing, and black teachers are more likely than white teachers to leave their jobs.
At the time, female teachers made less money than male teachers, minority teachers made less than white teachers, and elementary school teachers made less than high school teachers.
It turns out all students, from every racial background, rated Latino and Black teachers more highly than white teachers.
Similarly, the results for white students could merely reflect the possibility that the black teachers in predominantly white schools tend to be of lower quality than the white teachers in those schools.
In hiring, for instance, many districts acknowledge that they simply do not prioritize diversity and teachers of color have lower job satisfaction than white teachers, which might drive higher turnover rates.
Hispanic and, especially, black, teachers are more likely to withdraw than white teachers.
Teachers of color are two to three times more likely than white teachers to work in high - poverty, urban schools.
African - American children are three times as likely to be placed in gifted - education programs if they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher, according to research conducted by faculty members at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Vanderbilt University.
These findings accord with those from another recently published study, by researchers at American University and Johns Hopkins University, which found that black teachers had higher expectations than white teachers that black students would succeed in school.
The researchers found that students perceived Black and Latino teachers more favorably than White teachers.
«However, in our study, we were surprised to find that minority teachers are not just viewed more highly than White teachers by minority students, but in many cases by White students as well.»
Johnson says minorities who are unhappy in their schools are more likely to leave the profession than white teachers, who are more inclined to transfer to wealthier schools.
It may also be that black teachers simply have more effective classroom - management practices than white teachers, on average, and are therefore better able to induce misbehaving students to exhibit better behavior.
A 2005 University of Pennsylvania study by Richard Ingersoll found that teachers of color left the profession 24 percent more often than white teachers.
The study also found that black teachers rated black children's language and literacy skills higher upon school entry in the fall than white teachers did, but tended to report fewer gains in those skills at the end of the year, leading researchers to hypothesize that black teachers have higher standards for black children.
«When we look at the data, black teachers are actually 30 percent less likely to voluntarily resign than white teachers in Boston.»
According to the National Education Association, «The declining numbers of Black and Hispanic students majoring in education is steeper than the overall decline in education majors» and «Minority teachers leave teaching at higher rates than white teachers do.»
[11] They find black students in North Carolina were less likely to be subject to exclusionary discipline when they had black teachers rather than white teachers, even within the same school.
A recent study conducted by researchers at NYU examined student perceptions of teachers and students from every racial background rated Latino and Black teachers more highly than white teachers.
Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 % of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.
The results suggest the key factor is that black teachers are more likely than white teachers to see black students as gifted — and not that the students or their parents are doing anything differently to gain one of the limited seats in programs for gifted students.
Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 per cent of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.
But they are disproportionately assigned to high - poverty, struggling schools, and they leave the teaching ranks at a faster rate than white teachers, according to Richard Ingersoll, an expert who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
These studies suggest that black teachers are powerful role models, particularly for black boys; that they are more likely than white teachers to recognize competence in their black students; and that subjective judgments by teachers play a vital role in determining success at school.
Mitchell suggests that while the pool of qualified and committed teachers of color is increasing, these same teachers are leaving the profession at higher rates than white teachers, drawing upon research findings that «many nonwhite educators feel voiceless and incapable of effecting change in their schools.»
Teachers of color have higher turnover rates than White teachers.
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