TY  - JOUR
AB  - State and local education agencies across the country are prioritizing the goal of diversifying the teacher workforce. To further understand the challenges of diversifying the teacher pipeline, I investigate race and gender dynamics between teachers and school-based administrators, who are key decision-makers in hiring, evaluating, and retaining teachers. I use longitudinal data from a large school district in the southeastern United States to examine the effects of race-congruence and gender-congruence between teachers and observers/administrators on teachers’ observation scores. Using models with two-way fixed effects, I find that teachers, on average, experience small positive increases in their scores from sharing race or gender with their observers, raising fairness concerns for teachers whose race or gender identities are not reflected by any of their raters.
AU  - Skinner, Benjamin
AU  - Levy, Hazel
AU  - Burtch, Taylor
PY  - 2021
ST  - Digital redlining: the relevance of 20th century housing policy to 21st century broadband access and education
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Digital redlining: the relevance of 20th century housing policy to 21st century broadband access and education
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-471
ER  -