Exploratory Essay

Xiuting Pang

Eng 300 Online

03/27/20

Research questions: Does the white teachers really have bias against the black children towards their behaviors in school?

I would like to get my feedback on the grammar, ideas of the entire paper, what to write on the conclusion, or any change I should make in the sources?

Intro:

In the history of the United States, the war is not only about the out wars, it is also an inner war that was between the colors, regions, and the races. Even now people have more open thoughts than the back of the years, yet we still suffering from the discrimination because of our color. Not only does the adult need to fight with the war, the kids also suffer from the issue of the color. Many black children in today’s United States still experiencing a discrimination from not only their classmates, neighbors, strangers, but also from their teachers. Teachers' bias against the black children is one of the problems that the United States is facing. To be a teacher, teachers should be careful with student’s feelings instead of saying things without thoughts.

Writing this paper brings me back to my history class when I was in highschool, I still remember how strong my feeling was when I saw the picture of burning the black people by the whites, being unbelievable it has happened in our real life. I want to explore this problem which has occured for hundreds of years and is still very common in the year of 2020.

Body paragraph1:

“Teachers' Implicit Bias against Black Students Starts in Preschool, Study Finds.”

To compare the reactions and relationships between white teachers and black students, having a test on the teacher and the children is a credible activity to do. It shows the evidence of a reality. The research is about the eye-tracking technology on which child teachers are more identified. The result of the research came out as 42% of the teachers identified the black boys. Is that a good result? Why does almost half of the teachers identify the black boys? Is it because the black students behave badly? In the article, it has shown that the teachers have lower expectations of the black students in school than white students.

This is a credible article for me since there is evidence from the researchers and they really put a test between the students and teachers. The purpose of this article is to understand the expectation from teachers to black students and white students. Their behavior is worth observing. This became helpful to my topic because it shows whether the bias is occurring from teacher to between whites and black students. Compared to the score gap, the expectation is also important because it is also involved in the bias implicit towards the black students.

Body paragraph 2:

“Eye-tracking technology shows that preschool teachers have implicit bias against black boys”

The researchers used eye-tracking technology to watch over white teachers to black students. To understand how the teacher treats their preschooler, the research has involved 132 previous workers in the preschool. In the research, they have found the treatment difference from teachers between white students and black students. While black educators have high expectations of black students, but there are always low expectations from the white educator towards black students.

This article has a good purpose on exploring the bias between the white teacher and the black students. It is a credible article since they have many sources and researchers to support the main idea and their purpose. The strength of this article must be the eye-tracking technology is very wise to test out how teachers treat their students. However, the article doesn't have anything about the student reactions in school. Also is unclear about the suspension rate between the white and black students. This source is useful in my research helping me understand clearly about the thoughts between white teachers and black students' relationships.

Body paragraph 3:

“Variability in Schools’ Suspension Rates of Black Students.”

A three-year suspension study was conducted to explain inter-school differences in the proportion of black students suspended in middle schools in the metropolitan school district. Backward elimination results show that suspensions can be determined by the percentage of suspensions of non-black students. When black and non-black students use these variables in the model, the enrollment rate of black students and the proportion of black teachers, male teachers and novice teachers cannot predict black Student suspensions. The proportion of students participating in the free / sale lunch program was originally retained in the student model but replaced by teaching experience.

The purpose of the article is to know the rates of the suspension rate between the black students in order to know their behaviors and the expectations from the teachers. The advantage in this article is that they had included the rate of the other region of the rate of suspensions. This is also helpful in the topic because it can be compared to the previous source to see which source rate has more standard results.

Conclusion: