"...according to a significant body of research: Students tend to benefit from having teachers who look like them, especially nonwhite students."
Further down the writer looks at the likely reasons behind this
Students tend to be inspired by role models they can relate to. Same-race teachers might be able to present new material in a more culturally relevant way. Also, teachers sometimes treat students differently based on their own backgrounds and stereotypes. Social scientists call this implicit bias, when stereotypes influence people’s thinking, often unconsciously.
All this is really just some extra evidence for the argument you've already made fairly well in the article haha. But for anyone else unconvinced or uncertain, I recommend educating yourself with an open-mind and looking at different information and news outlets. This article was fast to find and references lots of good info.
You're very welcome! You did a great job with the learncodefrom.us/ site as well, I'm looking forward to seeing it grow. Are you focusing mainly on newer voices or also well-established ones too? Because there's lots of female developers I follow I'd recommend for it - Laura Kalbag, Sara Soueidan, Rachel Andrews, and Lea Verou to name a few. Jen Simmons is an especially intelligent figure whose done many talks related to CSS, and often writes/tweets about the obstacles facing women in tech.
Thank you so much. Definitely looking for more established voices as well, my plan was to see what organically happens today and tomorrow, and then reach out to those bigger more established people later this week to see if they want to be included!
If I could make a suggestion, Tearyne (pronounced like Karen with a T) is a black female dev from Texas that's been starting to establish her own voice and has spoken about diversity and web development, and a really good online-friend of mine from a front-end development slack channel. Definitely reach out to her about being included, I think she'd make a great addition. See her twitter here -> twitter.com/TearyneG
Some extra support for diversity being a large factor in learning an education: there was also a NYTimes articles that looked at research related to diversity and education. A quote from the second paragraph:
Further down the writer looks at the likely reasons behind this
All this is really just some extra evidence for the argument you've already made fairly well in the article haha. But for anyone else unconvinced or uncertain, I recommend educating yourself with an open-mind and looking at different information and news outlets. This article was fast to find and references lots of good info.
Thank you so much!!! Going to definitely add this in and share it. Awesome article.
You're very welcome! You did a great job with the learncodefrom.us/ site as well, I'm looking forward to seeing it grow. Are you focusing mainly on newer voices or also well-established ones too? Because there's lots of female developers I follow I'd recommend for it - Laura Kalbag, Sara Soueidan, Rachel Andrews, and Lea Verou to name a few. Jen Simmons is an especially intelligent figure whose done many talks related to CSS, and often writes/tweets about the obstacles facing women in tech.
Thank you so much. Definitely looking for more established voices as well, my plan was to see what organically happens today and tomorrow, and then reach out to those bigger more established people later this week to see if they want to be included!
If I could make a suggestion, Tearyne (pronounced like Karen with a T) is a black female dev from Texas that's been starting to establish her own voice and has spoken about diversity and web development, and a really good online-friend of mine from a front-end development slack channel. Definitely reach out to her about being included, I think she'd make a great addition. See her twitter here -> twitter.com/TearyneG
Awesome! Will do, thanks!
If that's reality then it's quite sad that someone's knowledge might be less valuable or even rejected to someone just due to looks...