Teachers expect less from black and Hispanic students

*Diminished expectations is an issue we don’t talk about enough. It has huge implications for the future of Latinos and the country in general. We need to start talking about this now. VL

By Corinne Segal, PBS Newshour

A report that the Center for American Progress published yesterday shows that teachers expect students of color and low-income students to graduate college at lower rates than white students.

The liberal think tank’s report analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Education Longitudinal Study, which asked tenth-grade teachers to predict which students would graduate from college and tracked the results from 2002 to 2012. The tenth-grade group was nationally representative of U.S. student populations.

Teachers thought that African American students were 47 percent, and Hispanic students were 42 percent, less likely to graduate college than white students, the report said.

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