Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Teacher diversity, wake up call....

We don’t have enough African American/Hispanic/Asian/Native American teachers in our schools.

Students of color make up nearly half of our school populations. That percentage is growing.

About 82 per cent of public school teachers are white, according to the Center for American Progress.


Anybody can learn from any good teacher, and we have a couple million of them.

But how many students of color go through their elementary and secondary school years without seeing a teacher who looks like them?....without having a role model or mentor who looks like them?



 And by the way, this disparity isn’t an all-of-a-sudden problem….

At the time of the breakthrough 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, there were about 82,000 black teachers in America’s public schools. Ten years later, 40,000 black teachers and black school administrators had lost their jobs, as communities started to dismantle their separate black and white school systems.
  
And by the way, a recent study by the American Sociological Association finds that white teachers “evaluate black students' behavior and academic potential more negatively than those of white students.”

The problem of racial segregation in public education hasn’t been fixed yet….

p.s.  ….and by the way, I did a Google search for “black teacher white students picture” and I could not readily find one….







1 comment:

  1. Really? I mean really? Isn't the country sick and tired of affirmative action. The Brown case was 60 years ago...we've gone though busing to minority hiring.Whose the minority now? Isn't there more woman than men? In some communities aren't there more Hispanics or blacks than whites yet all we hear about is "white guilt" and every thing must be done to equalize race, gender and religion etc! Liberals just need to get a life and let the chips fall where they may and no longer be ashamed of being white.

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