Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 23:42
in Psychology & Sociology
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school's racial makeup may have a direct impact on the quality of its teachers.