Sentences with phrase «white teacher workforce»

Increased effort should be made to diversify the nation's predominately white teacher workforce to make it more reflective of its student population, says a report released this month.

At least three distinct theories have been proposed about how moving away from a majority - white teacher workforce would be beneficial for students of color.

Not exact matches

The 2015 school workforce data showed 93.4 per cent of headteachers were white British, and 87 per cent of white British were classroom teachers.

The teacher workforce this year is nearly 75 percent white, 12 percent black, 6 percent Asian and 6 percent Hispanic, according to district data.

Our white paper, Resourcing the Performance Agenda in Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts, offers recommendations and practical guidance for schools, academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teachers.

While there's been an increase in diversity in the public school teacher workforce, it is still dominated by white (82 percent), female teachers (76 percent).

Co-founder Allana Gay, deputy headteacher at Lea Valley primary school in north London, said she and colleagues were dismayed when the 2015 school workforce data showed 93.4 per cent of headteachers were white British — a larger percentage than the 87 per cent of white British classroom teachers.

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.

More specifically, while 80 percent of traditional public school teachers are white, white teachers represent 71 percent of the teaching workforce in charter schools.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white.

That was four decades ago, when district school students were 91 percent White and the teacher workforce was a close match with 80 percent White.

Just as corporations have revamped the private white collar workforce, replacing full - time, salaried personnel with «temporary» workers — a system in which some managers are officially temps — such are the prospects for teachers in the brave new corporate world of education «reform.»

This white paper refines and provides evidentiary support for a human capital system framework composed of four subsystems that ideally work together to build a stronger teacher workforce.

Meanwhile, policymakers and education leaders don't need to wait for greater teacher workforce diversity to address the Black - White disparity in gifted assignments, Grissom and Redding wrote, pointing to how special education assignments are currently made, in response to legal challenges.

Data through 2013 indicate that up to 70 percent of new teachers stay through the five year mark.6 In addition, minority teachers have higher rates of turnover than white teachers — likely contributing to the lack of racial diversity within the teaching workforce.7 8