Increasing selectivity of teacher preparation entrance exams is not mutually exclusive with increasing diversity — nine states that raised selectivity saw education student diversity increase.¶

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q2 i? In nine states that increased entrance exam selectivity before 2012, the diversity of students studying education increased except in one (Alabama, down one percent). → Gold 2020

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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

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Secondhand report of a Center for American Progress analysis of nine states that raised selectivity, finding "the diversity of the students studying education in all nine states actually increased" after the change except in Alabama. No effect size is printed.

"The Center for American Progress examined nine states that had increased the selectivity of their entrance exams for teacher preparation programs before 2012. They found that the diversity of the students studying education in all nine states actually increased after the institution of the new exams—except for one, Alabama, where diversity decreased by one percent."

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