Category Archives: Diversity

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The Segregation of American Teachers

Erica Frankenberg
University of California, Los Angeles

Frankenberg, E. (2009). The segregation of American teachers. Education
Policy Analysis Archives, 17(1). Retrieved [date] from
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n1/.

Abstract
Data from a unique new survey of over 1,000 teachers in K-12 public schools
across the country show that our teaching force is largely segregated. Using
this new dataset, I find that teachers of different races are teaching
students of very different racial composition, adding an extra dimension to
growing student racial segregation. White teachers comprise an overwhelming
majority of the nation’s teachers. Yet at the same time, they were the least
likely to have had much experience with racial diversity and remain
remarkably isolated. 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.
Nonwhite teachers and teachers who teach in schools with high percentages of
minority or poor students are more likely to report that they are
contemplating switching schools or careers. The article concludes with
recommendations for diversifying the teaching force and ensuring that
schools serving students of all backgrounds have a racially integrated,
highly qualified faculty.

La segregación de los docentes Norte Americanos

Resumen
Los datos de una nueva encuesta realizada entre más de 1000 maestros de
escuelas públicas primarias y secundarias en todo el país señalan que la
profesión docente esta en gran medida segregada racialmente. Utilizando
este nuevo conjunto de datos, este artículo identifico que docentes de
diferentes razas enseñan a estudiantes de grupos raciales diferentes a los
de los docentes, lo que añade una dimensión extra a la cada vez mayor
segregación racial de los estudiantes. Profesores/as blancos/as son la
inmensa mayoría de los docentes del país. Sin embargo, este grupo, es el
que tenia las menores probabilidades de haber tenido experiencia con grupos
raciales diversos y siguen estando muy aislados. Un docente negro,
típicamente enseña en una escuela donde casi las tres quintas partes de
los estudiantes son de familias con bajos ingresos, mientras que en promedio
profesores blancos sólo tienen un 35% de estudiantes que provienen de
familias con bajos ingresos. Docentes latinos y asiáticos trabajan en
escuelas donde más del doble de estudiantes que están aprendiendo Inglés,
comparados con sus colegas blancos/as. Maestros y profesores no-blancos que
enseñan en las escuelas con altos porcentajes de minorías o los
estudiantes pobres tienen más probabilidades de informar de que están
contemplando cambiar de escuelas o de profesión. Este artículo concluye
con recomendaciones para aumentar la diversidad racial en la profesión
docente y para garantizar que las escuelas que prestan servicios a
estudiantes de todos los orígenes raciales tengan acceso a profesores
racialmente integrados y altamente calificados.
Palabras clave: distribución de profesores/as; diversidad de estudiantes;
diversidad (profesores); movilidad del profesorado.

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/.

Yours,

Sherman Dorn
University of South Florida
epaa-editor@shermandorn.com

Education Policy Analysis Archives
Vol 17, No 1 (2009)
Table of Contents
http://www.epaa.info/ojs/index.php/epaa/issue/view/EPAA17-01

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AP: Sarkozy acts for ethnic diversity

Dec 17, 2008

PALAISEAU, France (AP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy, impatient with what he said was the slow pace of promoting diversity in France, announced measures Wednesday to put more ethnic minorities on TV screens, in political parties and in elite schools.

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Inside Higher Ed: Nebraska Bars Use of Race in Admissions

Nebraska on Tuesday became the fourth state to ban the consideration of race in admissions decisions by public colleges and universities. California, Washington State and Michigan have previously approved such bans.

With more than 90 percent of votes counted in unofficial results, 58 percent of Nebraska voters were backing the ban. A similar measure in Colorado was narrowly behind, with 86 percent of the vote counted early Wednesday and without a clear indication of the final outcome.

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Inside Higher Ed: Where Are the Minority Ph.D.’s? In Tampa, Actually

TAMPA — One by one they took to the stage to receive their plaques, each story seemingly more compelling than the last. The single mother with four kids. The young man who had lived in a friend’s car for a spell. The cancer survivor whose parents had died when he was four years old.

The “graduation” ceremony at the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, the 15th of which took place here last weekend, is the most striking element of one of the most unusual gatherings in higher education, where nearly 1,100 minority doctoral candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients convene to learn how to prepare for a career as a professor, to network and, perhaps most importantly, to exhort each other to keep going.

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The Chronicle: Lesbian and Gay Activists Object to New Orleans Site for Political-Science Conference

In the latest dispute over civil rights and the obligations of scholarly groups, the American Political Science Association is facing calls to relocate its 2012 convention, which is scheduled to be held in New Orleans.

Lesbian and gay activists in the association say that a “defense of marriage” amendment approved by Louisiana voters in 2004 contains such severe language that they and their partners would face risks in visiting the state. But other scholars argue that New Orleans needs support in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and that the city itself has historically been tolerant, whatever the politics of the rest of Louisiana.

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