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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh please. Teachers underestimate students ALL THE TIME for various reasons and race is a biggie. This really speaks to the whole issue on another thread and [b]how non-black teachers tend to think more poorly of their minority students[/b]. This has been measured in scientific studies. They also tend to underestimate the abilities of boys.

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exactly

We "non-black" teachers are always out to get the minorities by denying them access to elite programs!

You are one sharp cookie, PP, as you clearly used sufficient evidence to prove your point. Could you share your study with DCUM?  
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I'm not the PP you're responding to, but here is the study that the PP referred to:

http://releases.jhu.edu/2016/03/30/race-biases-teachers-expectations-for-students/

The researchers analyzed data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, an ongoing study following 8,400 10th grade public school students. That survey asked two different teachers, who each taught a particular student in either math or reading, to predict how far that one student would go in school. With white students, the ratings from both teachers tended to be the same. But with black students, boys in particular, there were big differences — the white teachers had much lower expectations than black teachers for how far the black students would go in school.

The study found:
?White and other non-black teachers were 12 percentage points more likely than black teachers to predict black students wouldn’t finish high school.
?Non-black teachers were 5 percent more likely to predict their black boy students wouldn’t graduate high school than their black girls.
?Black female teachers are significantly more optimistic about the ability of black boys to complete high school than teachers of any other demographic group. They were 20 percent less likely than white teachers to predict their student wouldn’t graduate high school, and 30 percent less likely to say that then black male teachers.
?White male teachers are 10 to 20 percent more likely to have low expectations for black female students.
?Math teachers were significantly more likely to have low expectations for female students.
?For black students, particularly black boys, having a non-black teacher in a 10th grade subject made them much less likely to pursue that subject by enrolling in similar classes. This suggests biased expectations by teachers have long-term effects on student outcomes, the researchers said.
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