The race connection: are teachers more effective with students who share their ethnicity?

91 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Creating Birds of Similar Feathers: Leveraging Similarity to Improve Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement. (2015, background): “For instance, Dee (2004) found significant positive effects on test score outcomes for black students who were assigned to black teachers and for white students who were assigned to white teachers.”
New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply (2014, background): “Evidence also indicates higher levels of student achievement (Dee, 2004) among African American students who are taught by same-race teachers.”