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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted the links to open FCPS jobs.  There is no opportunity to read the study.  The job openings are for specific subjects and age groups-elementary and secondary.

Here is the most info on the actual study available to the public:
http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-87-number-1/herarticle/where-are-all-the-black-teachers

[b]The newspaper articles give us a total not data per position for applicants.  The aggregate is only relevant if per position applications were the same.  Now let's get rid of the foreign language teachers which are over 10% of the listings and add AA teachers and lower regular ed class size.  How many AA applicants for sped, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese, Japanese?  [/quote][/b]

[b]Absolutely not enough information to enable the reader to support the idea that there is rampant discrimination.[/b]

If the news is going to publish this type of accusation, they should certainly make the data more readily available.  This raises far more questions than answers.  PP brought up a point I had not considered: the applications for specific jobs.  It would be much clearer if we could see the data by specific job.  For example: the basic elementary classroom teacher.  If we could compare applicants (including qualifications and test scores) it would yield much better information.  It could be that the ratio was far more reasonable in the case of elementary classroom teachers--as opposed to foreign language teachers.  We don't know because we do not have access to the information.

I would be interested to know if the WAPO reporter actually read the study.

In my graduate work in education, I was taught that you always look at the study itself to make your own conclusions. [/quote]

Actually, there is enough information. You simply choose to see or believe it.

Many wonder how in the world Trump could've won the election with his racist, sexist, idiotic views and words. This is how. So many are unaware of hidden racism. Trump was smart enough to know this, which is why he ran on the campaign of "Make America Great Again" [/quote]

All right.  If 500 people applied for 10 basic elementary school classroom teacher jobs and the hiring results were as stated in the WAPO then racism could be applicable unless the non AA applicants were hired at the lowest pay scale and all AA applicants would have had masters plus 15 etc. Or some such distribution.  But if we look at current job openings in FCPS what are the chances that there are many AA applicants for some of those positions?   Asian languages?  German?

How many AA chemistry majors get a ed cert and now go into teaching?   What about math majors?  [/quote]

The deliberate, selective ignorance is astounding.[/quote]

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