Our thesis is that Hispanic students perform academically better when taught by Hispanics and that, therefore, Lone Star College must actively search for more qualified Hispanic teachers.
There is appreciable empirical evidence to document that Hispanics learn better from their own kind. We cite some of these sources. An NBER Working Paper reports: “The results of the test score evaluations indicate that exposure to an own-race teacher did generate substantive gains in student achievement for both black and white students. More specifically, these results suggest that a year with an own-race teacher increased math and reading scores by three to four percentile points ... for nearly all groups of students defined by race and gender.” Read more at The Courier
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