Education
When local teaching jobs open up, superintendents say they rarely see candidates of color. New research indicates the pipeline has leaks at almost every stage -- from high school, through college graduation and job retention. Karen DeAngelis, an associate dean at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education, set out on a research project with colleagues from Southern Illinois University. They had access to multiple years of data, tracking tens of thousands of students. From the outset, they knew that students of color graduate high school and attend college at lower rates. But that can lead to a stereotype, which their study debunked. "The story is a little bit more complicated than, 'Students of color are less academically prepared going into college, and as a result, we don't see as many teachers of color.' I mean, that's not at all what our data showed," DeAngelis explained. Leak in the pipeline: high school DeAngelis found that there are more than enough students of