Schools Hire Asian Teachers at Half the Rate of Other Groups, Research Finds

In this The 74 article, Kevin Mahnken shares evidence from a new CALDER study lead by Dan Goldhaber that examines the extent to which teacher and principal diversity is related to racial differences in who advances through the hiring pipeline. The article highlights striking evidence that Asian teaching candidates received job offers at about half the rate of others.

“‘Discrimination,’ to me, is that if all else is equal, there are still differences in hiring rates by demographics,” Goldhaber said. “We did our best, given the data we had, to make all else equal, but we’re not looking at quite as much information as the school systems are looking at.”

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