Sentences with phrase «white teaching force»

In particular, educators honed in on the disproportionality of disciplinary actions that students of color experience at the hands of a largely white teaching force.

Her book is rich with suggestions for working in our schools today, where we find a primarily white teaching force and an expanding population of students of color.

There's a growing demographic divide between America's predominantly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student body, and the proportion of women teachers continues to rise.

In a rapidly diversifying district with a largely white teaching force, how do you foster mutual trust and understanding?

Not exact matches

The thing of it is, if you really, really investigate what Yeshua said, and not just what's in the latest translation of the white man's western Bible, You'd be forced to conclude that his followers perverted his teachings, and the whole thing was now being run as a confidence scam of the first order, to bilk billions out of the unsuspecting and influence social and political order at the same time.

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

Related reading: • The Nation's Teaching Force Is Still Mostly White and Female • Are Selectivity and Diversity Competing Goals for Teaching?

«The death of Michael Brown, and so many others, presents a predominantly white and female teaching force with the opportunity to critically examine and discuss systemic racism,» DiAqui says.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

The challenges of a US teaching force that is 81 percent white and overwhelmingly female - TCRecord: Article http://ow.ly/CKPBG

The largest drop took place in the District, where between 2003 and 2011, the portion of the D.C. teaching force that was white more than doubled from 16 percent to 39 percent while the share of teachers who were black shrank from 77 percent to 49 percent.

The teaching force remains overwhelmingly white.

According to a 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 82 percent of the teaching force is white.

In this important read, she goes beyond the well - researched argument that hiring teachers of color improves education for kids of color, to argue that a more diverse teaching force will positively impact the worldviews of white kids.

Teacher diversity also remains an issue; currently 82 percent of the teaching force is white.

Take for example this recent blog post about teacher diversity: Why we should diversify the overwhelmingly white U.S. teaching force — and how.

In fact, according to recent figures, white educators make up 82 percent of the teaching force, while black teachers make up only 7 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).

White, monolingual, middle - class females continue to dominate the elementary teaching force despite efforts to recruit a more diverse cohort.

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According to publisher Routledge, the leading scholars who contribute have «look (ed) closely at this problem» and «examine why the teaching force is predominantly white from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.

«As the nation moves forward, we are seeing a rapid increase in the diversity of our student body while the teaching force remains dominated by white, middle - class females.

We even launched a new national initiative out of a White House and Joining Forces working group that we named «VetCap» (capital for veterans), with a workshop program to teach veterans where and how to raise capital for their businesses.