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Black Teachers Matter. School Integration Doesn't

Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II

May 04, 2017 |

Education Week |

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Only seven percent of public school teachers are black. Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II dismisses school integration as the central solution to equal opportunity in education. He shows instead that dropout rates for black male students fell by 39 percent when students had at least one black teacher in grades 3-5.

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