A student-teacher racial/ethnic parity gap persists: in 2011–12, 44% of students but only 17.3% of teachers were minority¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associationalr3·q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2022: baselines and conditions change
Subclaims¶
Reading the evidence codes
q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r
the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.
This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q2 i? In 2011–12 the percentage of minority students (44%) far exceeded the percentage of minority teachers (17.3%). → Ingersoll 2017
q2 i? The parity gap exists for each major minority subgroup; e.g., 21% of students but 7.5% of teachers were Hispanic in 2011–12. → Ingersoll 2017
Evidence¶
Ingersoll 2017¶
Ingersoll, R., May, H., & Collins, G. (2017). Minority teacher recruitment, employment, and retention: 1987 to 2013. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/minority-teacher-recruitment
q2 · i? · associational · r3
Descriptive analysis of the nationally representative SASS data for 2011–12 (Tables 1 and 2). The report states "44% of all elementary and secondary students were minority, and only 17.3% of all elementary and secondary teachers were minority," with parallel gaps for Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American teachers.
"in the 2011–12 school year, 44% of all elementary and secondary students were minority, and only 17.3% of all elementary and secondary teachers were minority"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- North Carolina's teacher workforce is far less racially diverse than its student population — related
- The center-based early educator workforce is more racially and ethnically diverse than the TK–12 workforce, with 66% identifying as people of color versus 39%
- Minority teachers are disproportionately employed in high-poverty, high-minority, urban public schools
Page metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
type |
claim |
id |
persistent-student-teacher-parity-gap |
title |
A student-teacher racial/ethnic parity gap persists: in 2011–12, 44% of students but only 17.3% of teachers were minority |
description |
A student-teacher racial/ethnic parity gap persists: in 2011–12, 44% of students but only 17.3% of teachers were minority |
status |
review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2017 |
recheck_by |
2022 |
generated |
by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-10 |
trust |
unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
sources |
1 — ingersoll-2017 |
Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.