Humans make assumptions about individuals based on what we see. Although we like to say that we get to know a person first, science suggests otherwise. Experiments have demonstrated that people make trait judgments based on seeing someone’s facial features after 100 milliseconds (Willis & Todorov, 2006). That’s one tenth of
This is part IV of a four-part blog series on race and teacher expectations. Click these links to access blogs: I, II and III. Research suggests a correlation between teacher expectations and student achievement (Brophy, 1983). In the U.S. we also have a systemic issue of educators having lower expectations
This is part III of a four-part blog series on bias and teacher expectations. Click these links to access post I and post II. The language we use to talk about students matters. It reflects and shapes our perceptions, and most importantly, our expectations for student success. Sometimes the words we use
This is the second blog in a four-blog series on bias and teacher expectations. Access the first blog here. No matter how good our intentions to be free of prejudice, we all have implicit biases that can have a serious impact on our work in schools. Implicit
This post was originally published on Tonya Ward Singer's blog. In a new study, Gershenson, Hold, & Papageorge (2015) reveal that non-black teachers have lower expectations than black teachers for the same black students in the same schools. The idea that race impacts teacher expectations is