Closing the Racial/Ethnic Gap between Students of Color and Their Teachers: An Elusive Goal

Autor/inn/en	Villegas, Ana Maria; Strom, Kathryn; Lucas, Tamara
Titel	Closing the Racial/Ethnic Gap between Students of Color and Their Teachers: An Elusive Goal
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 45 (2012) 2, S.283-301 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
DOI	10.1080/10665684.2012.656541
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Ethnic Groups; Minority Group Teachers; Teacher Recruitment; Minority Group Students; Racial Composition; Disproportionate Representation; State Standards; Personnel Policy; Change Strategies; Elementary Secondary Education; Ethnic Diversity; State Regulation; Trend Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; African American Students; African American Teachers; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ethnie; Lehrerrekrutierung; Personalpolitik; Lösungsstrategie; Staatliche Lenkung; Trendanalyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator
Abstract	This article examines minority teacher recruitment policies and programs of the past two decades and explores their influence on the racial/ethnic makeup of the teaching force in elementary and secondary public schools. The results show that while important progress has been made toward increasing the overall number and proportion of minority teachers in the public schools, those gains have been eclipsed by the rapid growth of the minority student population. As a result, the racial/ethnic gap between students of color and their teachers has actually increased over the years. The authors provide an overview of current minority teacher recruitment state policies and introduce the Teacher-Student Parity Index, a new metric for comparing the proportions of teachers and students from different racial/ethnic groups to gain a more textured understanding of the demographic reality of today's schools than is presently found in the literature. The authors conclude with recommendations for policy and research. (Contains 2 figures, 2 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10