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The following reports, policy briefs, and related research on key topics can help spark conversations on educator diversity in communities around the country.

Federal Policy Brief

Building a Diverse Teacher Workforce 

Diversifying the Educator Workforce Workgroup releases report that offers recruitment, preparation, and retention strategies for diverse educators in Colorado 

Diversifying the Educator Workforce

Diverse and Culturally Responsive Workforce 

Maryland’s Teacher Workforce: Supply, Demand, and Diversity 

Teach Illinois Strong Teachers, Strong Classrooms: Policy Solutions to Alleviate Teacher Shortages in Illinois 

Black Teacher Recruitment and Retention 

Teacher Shortages During the Pandemic: How California Districts are Responding 

Center for the Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Educators 

Seven strategies school districts are using to increase teacher diversity 

1000 by 2025: A community-wide effort in Duval County to recruit, support and retain diverse male teachers 

Districts Want More Teachers of Color But Don’t Do Enough to Recruit Them, Survey Finds 

Retaining Teachers of Color to Improve Student Outcomes 

Teacher Turnover: Why it Matters and What We Can Do About It 

Retaining Teachers of Color in Our Public Schools 

Why Teachers of Color Leave and How to Disrupt Teacher Turnover 

DRIVE Task Force tackles challenges, opportunities of recruiting teachers of color 

Recruiting Black Teachers Into A Burning Schoolhouse Won’t Help To Retain Them 

Prioritizing Strategies to Racially Diversify the K-12 Teacher Workforce 

Resources for Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Teachers of Color 

The Teacher Residency: A Practical Path to Recruitment and Retention 

Strategies that Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Educator Preparation 

U.S. Department of Education Announces First-Ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program Grants to Strengthen Teachers of Color Pipeline and Address Teacher Shortage 

Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

Improving the Preparation Pipeline for Black Teachers: 5 Ideas from Experts

Do High School Students With a Same-Race Teacher Attend Class More Often? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Student-Teacher Racial Match And Its Association with Black Student Achievement: An Exploration Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling American Educational Research Journal

The Effects Of Teacher Match on Students’ Academic Perceptions and Attitudes. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Student-Teacher Race Congruence: New Evidence and Insight from Tennessee AERA Open

Exposure to Same-Race Teachers and Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black Students In North Carolina Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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The Long-Run Impacts Of Same-Race Teachers IZA Discussion Paper No. 10630

The Effects Of Teacher Match On Students’ Academic Perceptions And Attitudes American Education Research Association (AERA Open)

Representation In The Classroom: The Effect Of Own-Race Teachers On Student Achievement Economics of Education Review

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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Students’ Disruptive Behavior: The Effect Of Racial Congruence And Consequences For School Suspension

The Theoretical And Empirical Arguments For Diversifying The Teacher Workforce: A Review Of The Evidence CEDR Policy Brief, Working Paper #2015-9

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A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, Or Gender Matter? The American Economic Review

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Teachers, Race, And Student Achievement In A Randomized Experiment The Review of Economics and Statistics

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Teachers’ Perceptions And Expectations And The Black-White Test Score Gap Urban Education

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A Broken Pipeline

If You Listen, We Will Stay

A Teacher Like Me: A Review of the Effect of Student–Teacher Racial/Ethnic Matching on Teacher Perceptions of Students and Student Academic and Behavioral Outcomes Review of Educational Research

Discretion And Disproportionality: Explaining The Underrepresentation Of High-Achieving Students Of Color In Gifted Programs American Educational Research Association (AERA Open)

The Importance Of Minority Teachers: Student Perceptions Of Minority Versus White Teachers Educational Researcher

Who Believes In Me? The Effect Of Student– Teacher Demographic Match On Teacher Expectations. Economics of Education Review

Assessed By A Teacher Like Me: Race And Teacher Assessments Education Finance and Policy 

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Is Your State Prioritizing Diversity & Equity?

DRIVE Task Force Final Report

5 Things to Advance Equity in Access to Strong and Diverse Educators

Unconscious Bias In The Classroom: Evidence And Opportunities Google’s Computer Science Education Research

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Race, Gender, And Teacher Testing: How Informative A Tool Is Teacher Licensure Testing? American Educational Research Journal

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