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Racial Bias in Elementary Education

2020-11-03 16:37:14.472436+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

PROOF POINTS: White and female teachers show racial bias in evaluating second grade writing — Same essay with different names gets different marks

“Teachers were 4.7 percentage points more likely to consider the white child’s writing at or above ‘grade level’ compared to the identical writing from a Black child.” wrote the University of Southern California researcher, David Quinn, describing his June 2020 study in an article published Nov. 2 in the journal Education Next.

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