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Teacher expectations reflect racial biases, Johns Hopkins study suggests
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than do black teachers, a new study concludes. This is especially true for black boys.
When a black teacher and a white teacher evaluate the same black student, the white teacher is about 30 percent less likely to predict the student will complete a four-year college degree, the study found. White teachers are also almost 40 percent less likely to expect their black students will graduate high school.
The study found:
The study is co-authored by Seth Gershenson and Stephen B. Holt, both from American University.
- White and other non-black teachers were 12 percentage points more likely than black teachers to predict black students wouldn't finish high school.
- Non-black teachers were 5 percent more likely to predict their black male students wouldn't graduate high school than their black female students.
- Black female teachers are significantly more optimistic about the ability of black boys to complete high school than teachers of any other demographic group. They were 20 percent less likely than white teachers to predict their student wouldn't graduate high school, and 30 percent less likely to say that than were black male teachers.
- White male teachers are 10 to 20 percent more likely to have low expectations for black female students.
- Math teachers were significantly more likely to have low expectations for female students.
- For black students, particularly black boys, having a non-black teacher in a 10th grade subject made them much less likely to pursue that subject by enrolling in similar classes. This suggests biased expectations by teachers have long-term effects on student outcomes, the researchers said.
"While the evidence of systematic racial bias in teachers' expectations uncovered in the current study is certainly troubling and provocative, it also raises a host of related policy-relevant questions that our research team plans to address in the near future," Gershenson says. "For example, we are currently studying the impact of these biased expectations on students' long-run outcomes, such as educational attainment, labor market success, and interaction with the criminal justice system."
Teacher expectations reflect racial biases, Johns Hopkins study suggests
How do 'teacher expectations' explain these failures????
Earlier, the reasons for the black-white educational achievement gap, and the challenge for Liberals/Progressives/Democrats to find ways to blame that gap on white folks....
Not a one.
The number of days absent from school
The number of hours spent watching TV
The number of pages read for homework
Quantity and quality of reading material in the home
The presence of two parents in the home.
This gap is fully attributable to the "help" Liberals/Progressives/Democrats provide to black Americans, convincing them that they need do nothing for themselves, their "friends" will boost them up and protect them from the (imaginary) white racists.
Destroyed your begging and whining again, huh?
None of the shit in bold has anything to do with anything.
Your argument has no merit when contrasted with actual research and experience being black.