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The Impact Of Student/Teacher Race-Congruency On A Student’S Academic Experience, Sofia Elizabeth Panagiotopoulos
The Impact Of Student/Teacher Race-Congruency On A Student’S Academic Experience, Sofia Elizabeth Panagiotopoulos
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The purpose of this literature review was to address how race-congruency between students and teachers impacts students' academic achievement and what can be done about the issue. The guiding questions were: 1) does race-congruency between students and teachers impact a student’s academic experience? and 2) what are the current efforts to diversify the teacher workforce? The literature review shows that race-incongruency between students and teachers impacts multiple facets of a students experience. With the majority of teachers being White and the majority of students being nonwhite, most students find themselves racially-incongruent to their teachers. Race-incongruency between teachers and students is …