Constance Lindsay

This project will develop and validate research-based measures of culturally-responsive schooling. Educators have been working for greater equity for decades, but with few enduring solutions. The stubborn statistics attest to the intransigency of the problem. Black and Latinx students are three times more likely today to attend highly segregated schools than they were less than 25 years ago. Segregated schools have lower test scores and higher drop-out rates. Students of color are less likel...

The goal of this project is to further the understanding of how teachers improve over time-and specifically how white teachers can increase their racial competency and become more effective teachers to students of color-by bridging 3 previously distinct literatures in education research: the returns to teaching experience, teacher peer effects, and the impact of same-race teachers. Specifically, researchers will answer two broad research questions: First, does the racial makeup of a teacher'...