African American teacher candidates are less likely to receive job offers than white candidates despite similar or better qualifications.¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In a large urban school district study, African American candidates were significantly less likely to receive a job offer than white counterparts with similar qualifications. → Gold 2020 q2 i? A meta-study of hiring field experiments found white applicants received 36 percent more callbacks than black applicants and 24 percent more than Latino applicants with identical résumés. → Gold 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Gold 2020¶

Gold, T. (2020). Pipeline and Retention of Teachers of Color: Systems and Structures Impeding Growth and Sustainability in the United States. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.org/2020/03/24/pipeline-and-retention-of-teachers-of-color-systems-and-structures-impeding-growth-and-sustainability-in-the-united-states/ doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/96

q2 · i? · associational · r?

Secondhand report of a study of "a large school district in a U.S. urban center" finding African American candidates significantly less likely to receive job offers despite similar or more advanced qualifications; no effect size is printed.

"D’Amico, et al., (2017) found that African American candidates were signifcantly less likely to receive a job ofer than their white counterparts, despite having similar or even more advanced qualifcations."

Gold 2020 (2)¶

Gold, T. (2020). Pipeline and Retention of Teachers of Color: Systems and Structures Impeding Growth and Sustainability in the United States. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.org/2020/03/24/pipeline-and-retention-of-teachers-of-color-systems-and-structures-impeding-growth-and-sustainability-in-the-united-states/. doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/96

q2 · i? · review · r1

Secondhand report of a meta-study of more than 24 hiring field experiments over 25 years and over 25,000 positions, reporting "white applicants received 36 percent more callbacks than black applicants" and 24 percent more than Latino applicants; these are descriptive callback percentages, not standardized effect sizes.

"since 1990, on average, white applicants received 36 percent more callbacks than black applicants and 24 percent more callbacks than Latino applicants with identical résumés"

Discussion¶

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