A diverse teacher workforce benefits all students, particularly students of color. While there has been real progress over the last twenty years in diversifying the teacher workforce,1 these gains have not kept pace with a rapidly diversifying student population. To accelerate progress, strategic recruitment efforts by teacher preparation programs are essential.
- Teacher prep enrollment: 11 percent candidates of color2
- Indiana teacher workforce: 5 percent teachers of color3
- Local demographics: 15 percent persons of color4
Programs earning a B support the diversification of the teacher workforce. Programs earn this grade under
one of two conditions: 1. The percentage of enrolled candidates of color meets or exceeds the diversity of the state teacher workforce,
but is up to 5 percentage points lower than the proportion of persons of color in the local population; or, 2. The percentage of enrolled candidates of color meets or exceeds the diversity of the local population,
but is up to 5 percentage points lower than the proportion of teachers of color in the state workforce.
Indiana Wesleyan University is found to be 5.8 percentage points
more diverse than the Indiana teacher workforce and 4.1 percentage points
less diverse than the local population.
1 Ingersoll, Richard M.; Merrill, Elizabeth; Stuckey, Daniel; and Collins, Gregory. (2018). Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force – Updated October 2018. CPRE Research Reports.
2 Three-year average sourced from Title II National Teacher Preparation Data
3 National Teacher and Principal Survey data (state supplied data substituted for missing values)
4 U.S. Census core-based statistical area (CBSA) data