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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
According to the article, black teachers are underrepresented and black administrators are overrepresented. Since principals have absolute authority over hiring teachers in their schools, there could be bias at the individual school/principal level. The difference between underrepresentation and normal representation is only a couple percentage points, so it could just be coming down to the applicants to the particular schools, rather than solely due to bias.

Taking hiring authority away from principals may solve that problem but would definitely create others. Interesting study with interesting results.

Yes. And, I suspect a lot of information was left out. I would be interested in seeing the geography of where the applicants came from. In other words, do they come from Virginia or Deep South or west coast, etc. [b]My bet is that a lot of the AA teacher applicants not hired were not local. In fact, I bet that most applicants hired are local--no matter what race.[/b][/quote]

+1  Interesting thought.  GMU educates a lot of the teachers that get (or don't get jobs) with FCPS.  I wonder what percentage of the GMU master's degree program matriculants are black?  Or are most of them white?

I have noticed that many of the degrees of certain groups of people are from online universities and those are problem viewed with a bit more skepticism.  Just saying.

I would also wager that there are more black administrators because the skill set needed to be a good administrator is much different from that needed to be a good teacher.  The administrator skill set for success is less "testable" with paper and pencil than the teacher skill set.  You have to know your subject area well to be a good teacher (at least for high level schools/classes).  To be a good administrator you have to get along with people and solve problems related to the school as a community.  Totally different.  The Praxis subject area tests would be interesting scores to look at.  [/quote]

Please stop trying to justify the racial bias that has been proven by RESEARCH that was conducted by a PREDOMINATELY WHITE university that is a known "friend" to FCPS.

The article was very clear in several places that THE BLACK APPLICANTS WHO WERE NOT HIRED HAD MORE IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS AND EXPERIENCE THAN THE WHITES WHO WERE. And THAT is the issue. It would be easy to explain away online degrees vs. those received at accredited 4-year universities, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE.[/quote]

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