Study: Teachers don't like teaching black kids

[Burrows]

Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race

A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school's racial makeup may have a direct impact on the quality of its teachers.

"It's well established that schools with large minority populations tend to have lower quality teachers," Dr. Jackson said. "But it is unclear whether these schools are merely located in areas with a paucity of quality teachers, whether quality teachers avoid these schools because of the neighborhood or economic factors surrounding a school, or whether there is a direct relationship between student characteristics and teacher quality."

Dr. Jackson's findings suggest that it's not neighborhoods keeping high-quality teachers away; it's the students—and it's directly related to their race.

"This is particularly sobering because it implies that, all else equal, black students will systematically receive lower quality instruction," Jackson said. "This relationship may be a substantial contributor to the black-white achievement gap in American schools."

The study focused on the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school district in North Carolina. In 2002, the district ended its race-based busing program, which distributed the district's minority population across its schools. When the policy ended, some schools had a large and sudden inflow of black students. Since the racial makeup of the schools changed suddenly but the neighborhood and economic factors surrounding them stayed the same, Jackson could test the impact the student body itself had on teacher quality.

Using data supplied by the North Carolina Education Research Data Center, Jackson found that schools that had an increase in black enrollment suffered a decrease in their share of high-quality teachers, as measured by years of experience and certification test scores. Teacher effectiveness, as measured by teachers' previous ability to improve student test scores, decreased in the black inflow schools as well. The change in quality for each school generally occurred in the same year that the busing program ended, indicating that teachers moved in anticipation of more black students.

"This study implies teachers may prefer a student body that is more white and less black," Jackson says.

Black teachers were slightly more likely than white teachers to stay in the schools that experienced a black inflow, the study found. However, those black teachers who did leave black schools tended to be the highest qualified black teachers. So the decline in quality was somewhat more pronounced among black teachers than white teachers.

Just what it is about black students that pushes high-quality teachers away is hard to pin down, Dr. Jackson says. It could be that teachers are reacting to notions about black students' achievement or income levels.

More information: C. Kirabo Jackson, "Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation," Journal of Labor Economics 27:2.

[Ragnell]

/popcorn

[Lordwafik]

Just what it is about black students that pushes high-quality teachers away is hard to pin down, Dr. Jackson says. It could be that teachers are reacting to notions about black students' achievement or income levels.

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[Olo401]

in b4 darwinism

[Dimmauk]

I blame Rap Music.

[Burrows]

If I were a teacher and I had trouble black kids, I'd feed them chicken and watermelon every Friday if they did well on their tests.

It'd be a Popeye's party.

[Mizango]

I never went to school with any other race until I was in 8th grade, I completely understand lol. I was raised and went to school in Hidden Valley, anyone in and around Charlotte knows exactly what that means.

Hypothetically if I were to teach i'd run straight to the other part of town. It starts with the parents, ignorance and just plain not giving a damn trickles down. The first time I saw a gun brought to school I was in 4th grade, 5th grade was the first time I saw a student and parent gang up on a teacher etc....

Kill the parents, you solve the problem. Fuck teaching in the hood.

[Demosthenes11]

teacher's don't like teaching in low-income schools where the kids tend to be more rowdy, more disapproving of white authority figures, and don't listen!?

OMG THIS IS CRAZY

[Mizango]

If I were a teacher and I had trouble black kids, I'd feed them chicken and watermelon every Friday if they did well on their tests.

It'd be a Popeye's party.

Popeye's attracts and is delicious to other races. What you meant to say was Church's Chicken, keep it hood dawg or else they see through your shenanigans and then would summon Action Jackson.

[Kajii]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...g?t=1243615253
She'll take the job.

[Mizango]

Gangstas paradise fa sho.

[Dimmauk]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...g?t=1243615253
She'll take the job.

Only two black people in that poster. LOL

[Khalil]

Damn, I guess Canadians have it somewhat easy. I've been to 3 different high schools in my time and not once have I seen a gun being brought to either high schools.

[Diamicles]

Popeye's attracts and is delicious to other races. What you meant to say was Church's Chicken, keep it hood dawg or else they see through your shenanigans and then would summon Action Jackson.

Yeah popeye's is the shiz, and when they shut it down in favor of a church's I was pissed, until I found out that eating fried chicken now gives me hyperspeed dook.

[Deelo]

I never went to school with any other race until I was in 8th grade, I completely understand lol. I was raised and went to school in Hidden Valley, anyone in and around Charlotte knows exactly what that means.

Hypothetically if I were to teach i'd run straight to the other part of town. It starts with the parents, ignorance and just plain not giving a damn trickles down. The first time I saw a gun brought to school I was in 4th grade, 5th grade was the first time I saw a student and parent gang up on a teacher etc....

Kill the parents, you solve the problem. Fuck teaching in the hood.

gonna have to agree there

[Mizango]

Damn, I guess Canadians have it somewhat easy. I've been to 3 different high schools in my time and not once have I seen a gun being brought to either high schools.

Oh man lets not talk about High school, the first time I saw a gun at school I was in Elementary school. High school was brutal, go to school in the hood. Around here they did school integration and shipped the black people to white school and it was over...

Uppity white girls getting turned out by straight up hood niggas. Good times, good times.

[Lee]

It could be that teachers are reacting to notions about black students' achievement or income levels.

Bull. Everyone who has been to a very black school knows it's the attitude of the kids that fatigues and scares teachers away. Parents are probably to blame.

[Kajii]

During Highschool there were 2 bomb threats(although iirc that was all some honkey's doing), 10 people caught with guns, numerous with knives, and many times all students were forced to have their lunch in their next or current class due to "racial tension."

Can't complain though... I made bank off of the black kids playing dice in the back of my Chemistry class.

[Senoska]

I can see why. I go to school in a very ghetto town.. I mean like Detroit ghetto. Just this last semester black students caused more problems than I can list in this single post. Most notably was Philosophy when God was brought up. It ended with someone throwing a chair (no bullshit.) and storming out of the room with his home boys.

There was also a really fat black girl who knew magic. As soon as every class would start that bitch would make a HUGE ruckus getting out of the room and some how make one of those really fucking big bags of Lays appear out of thin air. They are not sold on campus and the nearest store that I can think of that has them is about 2 miles off campus. how the fuck did she get those?!

The point is, she would get up EVERY CLASS about 10 minutes in and everyone would have to stop until she came back and sat down because the noise she would make. It got to the point where on the last day me and 3 others called her out.

There are other examples, but honestly I've never seen a white student where I live do this shit. Maybe I don't notice it as much... I'm not really sure. The majority of people in my school are pretty well off white kids but there are a few bad apples. I'm pretty sure some of the kids there are with the rehabilitation shit and are out of jail on the biases they go to school, but I'm not really sure.

I don't blame the teachers at all.

[Mizango]

HAHAHA I just found the neighborhood I grew up in was on the History Channel a few months ago....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYoPKyhDoU

Holy cow, that's funny. Tiny ass Hidden Valley making it on TV, fucking lol.

But Lee is correct, the parents are most certainly to blame. I'm telling you big time man, its a huge trickle down effect. Parents don't give a shit about education and tell their kids so. I remember being called uppity because I accepted a scholarship to college my senior year in school lol.