African-American boys in elementary school are less likely to be suspended or expelled if they have a teacher who is black, a study released Tuesday suggests.
If black male students have black teachers, their rate of removal from school for behavioral issues is reduced by 2 or 3 percent, a small but statistically significant drop, according to a peer-reviewed study in Education Next, a journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The findings are based on a study of elementary school students in North Carolina.
To tease out the effect of a same-race teacher on a student’s likelihood of being removed for behavioral reasons, researchers analyzed demographic data for 50,000 teachers and demographic and disciplinary records for 1 million students in grades 1 through 5 from 2008 through 2013. In 2013, the last year of the analysis, 10 percent of black students were taught by a black teacher.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to https://edsource.org/2016/afri...earch-reports/571698]
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