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Great Expectations – It is not simply about a diverse teacher workforce, but about the success of all students regardless of what community they come from. And even though male teachers who self-identify as Black only make up 2 percent of the teaching workforce,¹ studies support the idea that diversity and inclusion in teaching increases the performance of elementary and secondary students from underrepresented people groups² and that teachers who teachers from underrepresented people groups who teach students from their same underrepresented people group are about the child’s ability to complete high school than teachers from other demographic groups.³

Sources

¹U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, Policy and Program Studies Service, The State of Racial Diversity in the Educator Workforce, Washington, D.C. 2016.

²Whitfield, Chandra. “Only Two Percent of Teachers Are Black Men, Yet Research Confirms They Matter.” The Undefeated, 29 Jan. 2019.

³“Race Biases Teachers’ Expectations for Students.” 2016.