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Cooc, North; Kim, Grace MyHyun – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Research on the dearth of teachers of color has focused on disparities in college enrollment, completion, and academic major. The present study examines whether disparities may begin earlier. Analyses of nationally representative longitudinal data show that students of color are 2 to 4 percentage points less likely to hold teaching career…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Careers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation)
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Davis, Alan – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2013
This study compared the occupational aspirations of beginning high school students by gender and ethnicity, and examined the relationship between the educational demands of the occupations desired by students and their academic performance before and after entering high school. Desired occupations were obtained from 662 entering 9th-grade students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Educational Demand, Ethnicity