Juneteenth is a time for celebrating Black liberation. However, 160 years later, and 71 years after the desegregation of public schools, today’s education system continues to fail Black and brown ...

Egalite’s own research has shown “small but significant” positive effects in math and reading, especially in elementary school, when black and white students are assigned to teachers of the ...

Their data from the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years found that 89% of the gap between Black and white teachers in observation scores was due to differences in school characteristics, such as ...

A 2021 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, for instance, found that Black students who had at least one Black teacher in elementary school were 13% likelier to enroll in college and ...

Wilfred Wright was drawn to teaching as a child, but it wasn't easy to imagine becoming an educator because so few of his teachers looked like him. “The only Black men in my school were the ...

Tracey, a high school teacher in the Philadelphia School District, remembers the hurtful comments she heard from parents when she started her career over a decade ago as a young Black teacher in ...

In 2020-21, 80% of public school elementary and secondary teachers identified as non-Hispanic White. Much smaller shares were Hispanic (9%), Black (6%), Asian American or multiracial (2% each). And ...

This school year, nearly 90% of all public-school teachers in Massachusetts are white, while just over 3% are Black according to data from DESE. By contrast, 83% of teachers in Brockton are white ...

The Catholic school is small but school leaders say they have 10 Black teachers and eight white teachers. That includes an after-school co-director, a reading/math specialist and an instructional ...

STRATFORD — Elene Crosby did not know what to expect when she decided to move across the country more than half a century ago to become one of the first full-time Black teachers at Stratford ...

The law has had a chilling effect on teachers ... the Black first-grader who in 1960 marched past an angry white crowd to desegregate a New Orleans Elementary School. "Why did they not like ...

Nakeshia Smith-Farnum has spent more than two decades in the Valley Stream Central High School district ... the retention of Black teachers in the state and their white colleagues.