Race-based Studies on Teaching

New Mexico Independent - 58 percent of New Mexico teachers are white, despite minorities constituting an overwhelming majority of the state’s student body. The findings come out of a set of reports published by a Washington, D.C. think tank that examined the dearth of minority teachers in states having a student body less than 50 percent white. New Mexico’s student-teacher race disparity ranked in the top 12 nationwide, according to the report. The state’s scored a “29,” meaning the percentage of minority students was 29 percentage points higher than the number of minority teachers. California scored the highest: 72 percent of the state’s students are of color while only 29 percent of teachers identified as non-white. In Texas, Two-thirds of students are non-white yet only one-third of teachers have similar backgrounds. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Race-based Studies on Teaching