Sunday, March 25, 2012
Decrease in diversity among teachers
Following up on the discussion we had in class on Thursday, here is the quote about why the diversity of classroom teachers is decreasing from Lisa Delpit's, Other People's Children: "Researchers have cited many reasons for the decline of minority participation in the teaching force-among them, the overall decline of the number of college-bound students from ethnic groups, the widening of professional opportunities for people of color, the increase of competency exams, the lack of prestige for teaching as a profession, low salaries, and the less then optimal working conditions" (2006, pp. 105-106)
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This post is intended as a follow up on the comment that I made in the most recent lecture:
ReplyDeleteThe lack of non-white teachers is in part attributable to the lower graduation rate of that population from high school and from college. This is particularly troubling because it is a factor that has internal momentum: i.e. higher number of non-white teachers may contribute to higher graduation rates for non-whites, but it is not possible to recruit such non-white teachers because they did not graduate from high school, etc.