Does Race Differentiate Educational Expectations?

• In Event: 34.096 - MTCC Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: 34.096-5 - Research/Me-Search/We-Search

Abstract

This study explores the associations between student- and school-level race, along with teacher racial composition, with respect to students’ educational expectations to complete a four-year college degree. Results indicate that minority students have higher educational expectations than White students, and that students, regardless of race, attending schools with greater concentrations of minority students have higher educational expectations. Furthermore, little evidence is found indicating the importance of teacher racial composition as influencing educational expectations to complete a four-year college degree, both as a direct effect for minority students who have minority teachers, but also contextually with a school’s percentage of minority teachers.

Author

• Richard Dirmyer, University at Buffalo - SUNY