Keeping Teachers of Color: Recruitment is Not the Problem (original) (raw)
This article reviews some of the recent literature on teacher recruitment and retention published in the United States. It describes the merits of having a diverse teaching force, and explains that the issue of a lack of representation of teachers of color in American schools is not a result of recruitment; rather, it is the retention of these teachers that is the problem at hand. The article uncovers the reasons teachers of color leave the profession, and makes suggestions about changes that would make it possible for these teachers to stay. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, children of color make up the majority of the population, while their teachers remain mostly white. In other words, American public school students are looking less and less like their teachers (Digest of Education Statistics, 2017). Every state in the USA has a higher percentage of students of color than teachers of color, according to a “Teacher Diversity Index” included in a 2014 Cen...
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