[Lmresearch] New Ed Trust Report finds poor and minority students have lower-quality teachers

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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           Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality

            Poor and minority children don't underachieve in school just because they often enter behind; but, also because the schools that are supposed to serve them actually shortchange them in the one resource they most need to reach their potential - high-quality teachers. Research has shown that when it comes to the distribution of the best teachers, poor and minority students do not get their fair share.

            Two years ago, with support from the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, three states-Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin-and their three biggest school systems-Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee-set out with the Education Trust to tackle this very problem. Together, teams of stakeholders in each jurisdiction collected data on teacher distribution and identified patterns. In every case, they found large differences between the qualifications of teachers in the highest-poverty and highest-minority schools and teachers serving in schools with few minority and low-income students. The teams then analyzed the information to determine possible reasons for the patterns, and came up with strategies to achieve a fairer distribution.

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