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 ...

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 ...

A decade later, with hundreds of segregated schools closing, more than 38,000 Black teachers had been fired by white school leaders. As the community-run schools for Black children disappeared ...

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 ...

More than 63,200 teachers were employed as of October 2023, the most recent data available. More than two-thirds of teachers were white. The number of Black and Hispanic or Latino teachers has ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Texas elementary school ... dating a white man, according to the school system and reports. The Mesquite Independent School District said in a statement Tuesday the teacher, who is black ...

teacher is suing the charter school he used to work at after he claims he was fired after parents allegedly complained about him teaching a fictional book involving a racially profiled Black teen ...

He says teachers ... are white. And then they're sent into predominantly Black and brown classrooms. I have always wanted to be a teacher since I was 5 years old. I have loved school my entire ...