Education Policy Analysis Archives has just published an article by Erica Frankenberg (UCLA) that describes the racial segregation of teachers in the United States.
Most often we think about the racial segregation of students in US schools—a phenomenon that is making a come back as school desegregation efforts are dismantled by US courts, see here, here, and here—but Frankenberg’s research describes how white teachers in the US, who are the overwhelming majority of teachers, are also the least likely teachers to have experienced racial diversity and most isolated.
According to Frankenberg’s research, the typical African American teacher teaches in a school were nearly three-fifths of students are from low-income families while the average white teacher has only 35% of low-income students. Latino and Asian teachers are in schools that educate more than twice the proportion of English language learners as schools of white teachers.
Education Policy Analysis Archives is a refereed open-access journal co-published by the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State University and the College of Education at the University of South Florida. More information about becoming a reviewer or submitting manuscripts is available at http://epaa.info/ojs/.
You can read the Frankenberg article at this link:
Frankenberg, E. (2009). The segregation of American teachers. Education
Policy Analysis Archives, 17(1). Retrieved [date] from
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n1/.
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