PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2023
The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)
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