PROOF POINTS: White and female teachers show racial bias in evaluating second grade writing

White Female Teachers Show Racial Bias Evaluating Second Grade Writing

By Hechinger Report 11/02/2020

“… A recent study highlighted how the unfair grading of ordinary schoolwork extends down to even young students. In an experiment, teachers evaluated the same second-grade writing sample more harshly when there were clues that it had been written by a Black boy than when it appeared to have been written by a white boy.  …”

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