Teachers, race and student achievement in a randomized experiment

Teachers, race and student achievement in a randomized experiment

Recommendations for the aggressive recruitment of minority teachers are based on hypothesized role-model effects for minority students as well as evidence of racial biases among non-minority teachers. However, prior empirical studies have found little or no association between exposure to an own-ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dee, Thomas S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.
Series:NBER working paper series no.8432
Subjects:
Minority teachers > Tennessee.
Minority students > Tennessee.
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