African-American boys less likely to be suspended if teacher is black, research reports [EdSource.org]
African-American boys in elementary school are less likely to be suspended or expelled if they have a teacher who is black, a study released Tuesday suggests. If black male students have black teachers, their rate of removal from school for behavioral issues is reduced by 2 or 3 percent, a small but statistically significant drop, according to a peer-reviewed study in Education Next , a journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government at...