{"id":13033,"date":"2019-07-10T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:01:15","slug":"student-loans-affect-teacher-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/student-loans-affect-teacher-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Loans Affect Teacher Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly earth shattering news &#8211; but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/education-postsecondary\/reports\/2019\/07\/09\/471850\/student-debt-overlooked-barrier-increasing-teacher-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for American Progress<\/a> has a new report that student loan debt adversely affects teacher diversity.\u00a0 Diversity does help student achievement as the point out but 82% of the current teaching workforce is white.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 91% of African American and 82% of Hispanic\/Latin students trained to teach had student debt compared to just 76% for White students. African American teachers had much higher student debt as well &#8211; $26,405 vs $13,662.<\/p>\n<p>Retention of diverse teachers is less than white teachers as well. The theory of the report is that since the financial burden is so high, African American\/Black and Hispanic\/Latin teachers either cannot afford to take a teaching salary and pay back the loans or take the teaching salary and have to leave because of their student loans.<\/p>\n<p>Note that alternative teacher certification programs like Teachers of Tomorrow, the cost is so much lower we actually see much higher levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/diversity-teaching-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teacher diversity<\/a>. In our program, only 54% of our teachers are white &#8211; much less than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Cost is most definitely a factor. And we would love to see teacher salaries increased so that student loans are no longer a factor in teacher diversity &#8211; but don&#8217;t forget about the great teachers that are coming in every day from programs like our!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly earth shattering news &#8211; but the Center for American Progress has a new report that student loan debt adversely affects teacher diversity.\u00a0 Diversity does help student achievement as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[29,28],"class_list":["post-13033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-teachers-of-tomorrow","tag-texas-teachers"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-11-28 23:30:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13037,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions\/13037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}