America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Nation’s Teachers More Diverse but Still Lag Racial, Ethnic Makeup of Students
The racial and ethnic diversity of the nation’s 6.6 million teachers has increased since 1990 but has not caught up with the diversity of their students, according to a U.S. Census Bureau analysis of employment and population data.
About one quarter of all teachers — who represented about 4% of U.S. workers — were non-White and 9.4% were Hispanic or Latino, compared with 16% and 4%, respectively, three decades ago.
The recently released 2014-2018 Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation (EEO Tabulation) offers demographic and employment characteristics of 236 occupations, including teachers, at many levels of geography.
The new data help illustrate changes in racial and ethnic diversity among specific teaching occupations at all levels of education from preschool to college. It also allows us to compare teacher diversity to the diversity of students in the grades that they teach.
Continue reading to learn more about:
- Three decades of teacher diversity
- Profile of two Texas counties
- Students more diverse than their teachers
- What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation?
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