Starling Findings?: Black students “hardest hit” by Teacher Quality Inequities
This is why the Civil Rights data collection by DoEd is so important. EdWeek published a piece entitled Black Students Less Likely to Be Taught By Certified Teachers, Ed. Dept. Data Show. A few months ago Cloaking Inequity took up this issue in the post Whats Good for Goose, is Good for Gander: Feds propose changes to Civil Rights data I wrote at the time:
That brings us to the federal governments request to no longer keep track of this huge influx of teachers with a modicum of training to “pilot” our classrooms. The Department of Education is seeking public comments on the Civil Rights Data Collection process for 2013-2016. The feds have decided that it is no longer necessary to keep track of the FTE of teachers meeting all state licensing/certification requirements. The feds have also decided these data points are also no longer important for Civil Rights:
- Number of students awaiting special education evaluation (LEA)
- Whether students are ability grouped for English/Math
- Harassment and bullying policies (LEA)
- Number of students enrolled in AP foreign language(disaggregated by race, sex, disability, LEP)
- Number of students who took AP exams for all AP courses enrolled in (disaggregated by race, sex, disability, LEP)
- Number of students who passed AP exams for all AP courses enrolled in (disaggregated by race, sex, disability, LEP
- Total personnel salaries
What do you think about this explosion of inexperiece teachers with limited training disproportionately assigned to our nation’s poor in urban and rural areas? Are you annoyed? Outraged? You can comment on the proposed removal of a survey items.
The data through 2012 showed this according to Edweek:
Students of color are more likely to be taught by underqualified teachers, novice teachers, or teachers