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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so I read the article and can only conclude that we are all racist. Hispanic teachers identify more gifted Hispanics, but not gifted Black students. Black teachers identify more gifted Black students, but not more Hispanics. When more Black or Hispanic students are identified, there are less White students identified. [/quote]

Not what the study said. At no point did it suggest that black teachers identify fewer gifted white students.[/quote]

Straight from the study:

&quot;The results from the model with the percentage of gifted students who are white as the dependent variable are shown in column 3 of Table 2. Schools with larger proportions of minority teachers are associated with less white representation in gifted programs (
 p
 &lt; 0.01). A 10% increase in the proportion of either Hispanic or black teachers is related to approximately 4% or 3% drop in the percent of gifted students who are white, respectively.&quot;[/quote]

If minority teachers are identifying more AA and Hispanic kids as gifted, then the proportion of whites will fall. That's basic arithmetic. It doesn't mean that fewer white kids overall are being identified.[/quote]

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