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Did Teachers’ Race and Verbal Ability Matter in the 1960’s? Coleman Revisited

dc.contributor.authorEhrenberg, Ronald G.
dc.contributor.authorBrewer, Dominic J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:19:28Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:19:28Z
dc.date.issued1993-03-01
dc.description.abstractOur paper reanalyzes data from the classic 1966 study Equality of Educational Opportunity, or Coleman Report. It addresses whether teacher characteristics, including race and verbal ability, influenced "synthetic gain scores" of students (mean test scores of upper grade students in a school minus mean test scores of lower grade students in a school), in the context of an econometric model that allows for the possibility that teacher characteristics in a school are endogenously determined. We find that verbal aptitude scores of teachers influenced synthetic gain scores for both black and white students. Verbal aptitude mattered as much for black teachers as it did for white teachers. Finally, holding teacher characteristics other than race constant, black teachers were associated with higher gain scores for black high school students, but lower gain scores for white elementary and secondary students. Because these findings are for American schools in the mid-1960's, they do not directly apply to our contemporary experience. However, they do raise issues that should be addressed in discussions of hiring policies in American education.
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dc.identifier.other3450902
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/75453
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/0272-7757(94)00031-Z
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © University of Chicago Press. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Later version published as: Ehrenberg, R. G. & Brewer, D. J. (1995). Did teachers’ race and verbal ability matter in the 1960s? Coleman revisited. Economics of Education Review, 14(1), 1-21.
dc.subjectteachers
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjecttest scores
dc.subjecthigh school
dc.subjectColeman Report
dc.subjectEquality of Educational Opportunity Report
dc.titleDid Teachers’ Race and Verbal Ability Matter in the 1960’s? Coleman Revisited
dc.typeunassigned
local.authorAffiliationEhrenberg, Ronald G.: rge2@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationBrewer, Dominic J.: Cornell University

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