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4 ways to get more Black and Latino teachers in K-12 public schools

  • Written by Travis Bristol, Assistant Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
4 ways to get more Black and Latino teachers in K-12 public schoolsMore than half of U.S. public school students are children of color, while most of their teachers are white.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Black children are more likely to score higher on standardized tests and finish high school and want to attend college, and less likely to be suspended, if they have a Black teacher. Similarly, studies show that...

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