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Article: Minority teachers, minority students, and college matriculation: a new look at the role-modeling hypothesis.
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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In this article, we present for the first time systematic evidence that the percentage of minority faculty has a significant positive relationship with overall college matriculation rates in urban school districts across the nation. Although there is little discussion in the education literature of how minority teachers might influence achievement by students of all races, there is a widespread assumption that minority teachers improve the performance of minority students. Our finding supports this assumption, but it also suggests an important caveat. We will explain why this finding could mean that systemic school district behaviors are causing higher rates of college ...