Students prefer teachers of color

Students prefer teachers of color

 Key Points: Author brings up a hot topic of who students prefer to teach them. The study found that student prefer a teacher of color even in classes such as math. Students prefer blacks over white teachers in one study Cherng did. He suggests teachers of color may score higher on preferences to students, because of their experiences that they can address about race in the classrooms.

URL: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/07/496717541/study-finds-students-of-all-races-prefer-teachers-of-color

Relevance: We need to consider the implications of how and who we hire and train to be our future teachers. How are we going to promote different races to become teachers? We need to see more teachers of different backgrounds in all our schools.