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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone has implicit biases. The results of this study are not surprising. What we need to know is what is causing this bias? Why do teachers - of both races - expect black kids to behave worse than white kids? I wish our country could have an actual conversation about this and deal with it. Until we can, I'm not sure it's going to get any better.[/quote]

This.

It is so important for teachers to look inward and see where their own culture/upbringing/communication styles/preferences may be affecting how we perceive and respond to our students.

I recently attended a conference where a presenter talked about studies that found that the darker-skinned the perpetrator of a crime, the harsher the sentence, with all other things being equal. Here's one example from NPR:

"In fact, there are new findings to add to that dreadful stack, courtesy of Jennifer Eberhardt, an associate professor of psychology at Stanford. In the May issue of Psychological Science, Professor Eberhardt reports that convicted murderers who look more stereotypically black - broad noses, thick lips, dark skin, kinky hair - are more than twice as likely to get the death sentence than are fairer skinned black men. That is, as long as the victim is white.

Let either man kill a black person, and the likelihood of capital punishment fades away." [/quote]

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