Sentences with phrase «white teaching profession»

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«The stark facts remain that BME teachers are under - represented in the teaching profession particularly at the most senior levels, they are paid less than their white counterparts, they experience widespread discrimination when applying for jobs or promotion and often have to endure racist comments and abuse at work.

At a time when students of color now comprise a majority in the nation's schools, the supply of principals, much like the teaching profession, remains overwhelmingly white.

Facing heckling from the crowd, Morgan warned teachers that they should work with the Conservative government, saying: «Teaching unions have a choice — spend the next four years doing battle with us and doing down the profession they represent in the process, or stepping up, seizing the opportunities and promise offered by the white paper and helping us to shape the future of the education system.»

The survey also examined trends based on the race of TFA corps members, which revealed that Black / African American and Latino corps members were at a lower risk of voluntarily resigning from the teaching profession than Asian or White corps members.

The teaching profession — which traditionally has been white and female — is likely to become even more so, according to a researcher who looked at surveys of college freshmen conducted over 22 years.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

Speaking to TODAY's Matt Lauer in the Green Room of the White House for nearly 30 minutes, Obama said that additional funding tied to significant reforms — including a longer school year and lifting teaching as a profession — is a much - needed fix.

So teaching unions have a choice — spend the next 4 years doing battle with us and doing down the profession they represent in the process, or stepping up, seizing the opportunities and promise offered by the white paper and helping us to shape the future of the education system.

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.

Furthermore, there is little evidence to suggest that this representation will change soon since most of those (79 %) who entered the teaching profession in the same year also identified as white.

Fifty - one percent of our members are students of color, and we are committed to increasing diversity in the teaching profession — a goal shared by the independent school community, where 81.3 percent of teachers are white, according to DASL.

As it stands today, teachers of color are 24 percent more likely to leave the teaching profession than their white counterparts, according to research by Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying the issue.

We urgently need to increase diversity in a teaching profession that is 82 % white but serves a student population in which students of color comprise the majority.

The fact that the profession currently has significant incentives for people to stay in the teaching profession for long periods of time means that white teachers who entered the profession 20 years ago often stay until they retire.

Ms Morgan went on: «The teaching unions have a choice - spend the next four years doing battle with us and doing down the profession they represent in the process, or stepping up, seizing the opportunities and promise offered by the White Paper and helping us to shape the future of the education system.»

While most students at Ball State say money isn't a major reason they're entering the teaching profession, Samantha White, a senior from Michigan City, Indiana, admitted that it would make a difference.

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics has launched a digital campaign to highlight the impact of Latino teachers and hopefully to attract more Latinos to the teaching profession.