The New York Times (3/20, Rich, Subscription Publication) reports, "Despite major changes in the racial makeup of American public school students, the people training to be teachers are still predominantly white." The piece notes that a new study from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education shows that "82 percent of candidates who received bachelor's degrees in education in 2009-10 and 2010-11 were white. By contrast, census figures show that close to half of all children under 5 in 2008 were members of a racial or ethnic minority." The article touches on potential causes for this imbalance, and the overall difficulty that colleges of education have in recruiting students, particularly in STEM fields.
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