Student Diversity Is Up But Teachers Are Mostly White

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By Emily Deruy, ABCNews/Univision

Classrooms are becoming more diverse, but the people leading them remain predominantly white.

More than 80 percent of the bachelor’s degrees in education awarded during the 2009-10 school year were to non-Latino white students, according to a new study by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Three-quarters went to women, and only 4.2 percent went to Latinos.

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