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Cultural Match or Culturally Suspect: How New Teachers of Color Negotiate Sociocultural Challenges in the Classroom
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Achinstein, Betty; Aguirre, Julia – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background: The call to recruit and retain teachers of color in urban high-minority schools is based on an assumption of a cultural match with students. Yet new teachers of color may find themselves challenged by students with whom they are supposedly culturally matched. Although past research has examined recruitment, preservice, and veteran…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Teaching Methods, Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty)
Retaining Teachers of Color: A Pressing Problem and a Potential Strategy for "Hard-to-Staff" Schools
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Achinstein, Betty; Ogawa, Rodney T.; Sexton, Dena; Freitas, Casia – Review of Educational Research, 2010
Given calls to diversify the teaching workforce, this review examines research on retention and turnover of teachers of color, focusing on new teachers because they leave at disproportionately high rates. Reviewing 70 studies, the authors found that (a) recent national studies identify turnover rates for teachers of color are now higher than those…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Persistence, Student Diversity
Community, Diversity, and Conflict among Schoolteachers: The Ties That Blind. Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series.
Achinstein, Betty – 2002
This book explores how teacher communities differ dramatically in how they deal with conflict, collaborate, think about the purposes of schooling in relation to issues of conflict, frame and seek solutions, and utilize mechanisms to manage their differences. It reflects on current social theories of community and democracy to promote values that…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Conflict of Interest, Conflict Resolution, Democracy