Do Students of Color and Low-Income Students Experience Lower Quality Instruction?

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Abstract

Given that students of color and students from families with lower income are systematically underserved in American public schools, this study investigates the facets of instruction that fail to meet the needs of these students. By using panel data in five urban school districts, this study exploits variation in the percent of students of color and students eligible for subsidized lunch in classrooms led by the same teacher to understand how the quality of instruction changes in association with changes in the classroom socio-demographic composition. Results of fixed-effects regression analysis indicate that classrooms with higher percentages of students of color have lower scores along multiple dimensions of instructional and emotional support in English Language Arts classrooms.

Authors

• L. Joy Johnson, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Kolby Gadd, University of Michigan