Teacher Diversity and Student Success: Why Racial Representation Matters in Classrooms

In a forum hosted by the National Comprehensive Center for State education leaders, the authors of the book Teacher Diversity and Student Success: Why Racial Representation Matters in the Classroom present important and informative empirical findings, provide the important backdrop of the racialized history of teaching, and provide policy and practice solutions that can work to address racial gaps in the teacher workforce in the short and long term. This collection includes presentations from the researchers/authors and resources related to the strategic policy approaches discussed in the presentation and detailed in their book.