{"id":734,"date":"2017-04-17T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=734"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:54:35","slug":"study-having-a-black-teacher-can-help-keep-black-kids-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/study-having-a-black-teacher-can-help-keep-black-kids-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Having a Black Teacher Can Help Keep Black Kids in School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate from high school and consider attending college, according to a new working paper<\/a> published by the Institute of Labor Economics.<\/p>\n

Being assigned to a classroom led by a black teacher in in third, fourth, or fifth grade reduced a student\u2019s probability of dropping out of school by 29 percent, the study found.<\/p>\n

And the positive effects were even greater among low-income black boys, whose likelihood of dropping out fell by 39 percent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re seeing spending just one year with a teacher of the same race can move the dial on one of the more frustrating persistent gaps in educational attainment\u2014that of low-income black boys,\u201d researcher Nicholas Papageorge told The Hub<\/em><\/a>, a news service operated by Johns Hopkins University (MD). \u201cIt not only moves the dial, it moves the dial in a powerful way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study, which followed roughly 100,000 black students from North Carolina, found that students\u2019 college aspirations were also positively influenced.<\/p>\n

Overall, black students who received instruction from a black teacher in elementary school were 18 percent more likely to express interest in attending college, with low-income black boys 29 percent more likely than their peers to say they were interested in continuing their education after high school.<\/p>\n

How do researchers account for the powerful effects of having just one same-race teacher?<\/p>\n

“We think that students, especially poor black boys, might not identify with higher levels of education; they might not see people with high levels of education that look like them,” Papageorge told Education Week<\/em><\/a>. “If that’s the case, they might not be making investments in their own education … because they just [don’t] identify with being an educated professional.”<\/p>\n

Learn more about the study<\/a>, and read one teacher\u2019s take on its findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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