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来源类型 | REPORT |
规范类型 | 报告 |
America’s Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color | |
Farah Z. Ahmad; Ulrich Boser | |
发表日期 | 2014-05-04 |
出版年 | 2014 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Improvements along the educator pipeline and in teacher training programs will help diversify the United States’ teachers and consequently bolster the academic performance of children from all racial backgrounds. |
摘要 | See also: “Teacher Diversity Revisited: A New State-by-State Analysis” by Ulrich Boser
If you spend time in almost any major school district in America today, you will notice that the students often do not look much like the teachers. In fact, in some areas, the students don’t look anything like their teachers. There is a significant demographic gap in the largely white teaching profession and an increasingly diverse student population. To prepare American students for lives of high achievement, America’s schools need a teaching corps that is not only highly effective but also racially and ethnically diverse. Progress has been made in recent decades in attracting people of color to the teaching profession. But major barriers—including a scarcity of high-quality, teacher-training programs targeted at teachers of color; the educational debt students of color must shoulder; and the general lack of esteem in our society for teaching—stand in the way of producing an optimal pool of teachers. Without vigorous policy innovations and public investment, the demographic gap will only widen to the detriment of children’s education. This report will describe how the shortcomings of today’s education system and the underachievement of many of today’s students of color shrink the future supply of teachers of color. Furthermore, it will offer policy recommendations through which federal and state education agencies and local school districts can address this critical problem. As the most rapidly growing segment of the American population, communities of color can and should be one of our greatest assets in the 21st century economy. There is an opportunity to energize and infuse our teacher workforce with new cohorts of talented educators who are rigorously prepared and well supported in their careers. In this report, we examine the critical points in the education pipeline that affect who does and does not become a teacher and we suggest interventions that can improve the flow toward a successful teaching career —particularly of highly qualified candidates of color. Our aim is to begin a dialogue about how to diversify the teacher workforce to include highly effective teachers of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in elevating the achievement and attainment of the most rapidly growing segment of the American population—children of color. Specifically we find:
These findings are disturbing. Given an ever-diversifying student body, we need to do far more to diversify our teacher workforce. This leads us to some pressing policy recommendations: For the federal government
For states and districts
Farah Z. Ahmad is a Policy Analyst for Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress. Ulrich Boser is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. |
主题 | Race and Ethnicity |
URL | https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2014/05/04/88960/americas-leaky-pipeline-for-teachers-of-color/ |
来源智库 | Center for American Progress (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/435755 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Farah Z. Ahmad,Ulrich Boser. America’s Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color. 2014. |
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