That’s the upshot of a new study of Texas teacher-academy programs released Monday as an Annenburg working paper. It finds that while high school education academies can interest higher shares of students of color than typical in the teaching profession, they didn’t ultimately lead to more diverse local teaching pools because of racial gaps in college-going.
Edwards and co-author Matthew Kraft, a professor of education and economics at Brown University, tracked eight cohorts of more than 1.5 million students who started 9th grade between 2004-05 and 2011-12, including nearly 70,000 students who passed at least one high school education course.