White teachers often talk about Black students in racially coded ways
- Written by Rowhea Elmesky, Associate Professor of Education, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Educators stereotype Black students in subtle ways.Jonathan Kirn via Getty ImagesWhen a white Texas middle school teacher told his students in November 2022 that he was “ethnocentric” and thought his race was “superior,” he attempted to explain his position by arguing that he was hardly the only person who held such a view.
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