{"product_id":"why-nobody-wants-to-teach-joseph-r-gibson-9780998064505","title":"Why Nobody Wants to Teach Black Kids: Beyond Blaming Bad Teachers, Traditional Racism, and Black Students Themselves","description":"Please check out more of our related titles at thePGI.org\/global-press Teachers in schools with a predominantly African-American and high-poverty student body are generally not trained, equipped, paid, or implicitly motivated enough to deal with the unique burden of teaching African-American students from high-poverty backgrounds. Consequently, there's a literal race to flee these schools. And new research confirms it. A recent study in the Journal of Labor Economics boldly asserted that American teachers generally do not favor teaching African-American students from high-poverty backgrounds and as soon as there is an influx of these students into their school they leave (at least those teachers competitive enough to secure employment in a Whiter and\/or more affluent, higher achieving district). As a result, schools with large percentages of Black and poor students tend to have lower quality teachers and find it more difficult to attract new high-quality teachers. Of course, few educators-if any-would ever be so candid to admit openly such a thing, particularly in allegedly post-racial America (assuming we're still bothering to make this allegation post-Trump election). But as has universally been the case, actions continue to speak louder than excuse-based facades. And their actions are saying that very few teachers (with \"better\" options) genuinely want to teach Black kids. Even the notion of \"better options\" implies teaching at a Whiter, more affluent school. As soon as an opportunity to not teach Black kids comes about, very few teachers (regardless of race) reject said opportunity. Most teachers seem trapped by tenure-inflated salaries in quasi-suburban or even rural school districts that perhaps once were far \"less Black and poor,\" but after unique demographic shifts have become much more \"urban-like.\" Others appear stuck in one of too many urban charter schools that promised something patently different only to deliver the same exact emotional tone common to urban public schools: a stagnant mix of disappointment, frustration, and hopelessness amidst a sea of young, destitute Black faces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph R. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998064505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998064505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kitabu Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d","brand":"Joseph R. Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978301014271,"sku":"9780998064505","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c89f052-4983-4441-a835-b97140fc46ea.jpg?v=1683240775","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-nobody-wants-to-teach-joseph-r-gibson-9780998064505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}