id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vm40xp7125m Richard Marc Majerus Let's Talk About Race: Racial Teacher Matching and Student Achievement Growth 2010 .txt text/plain 179 5 19 To answer this question, piecewise achievement growth models are fit to all seven data points in the Early Childhood Education Longitudinal Study in a test of the racial matching hypothesis, which posits that African American students experience greater rates of achievement growth when they have African American elementary school teachers. Should public school districts purposefully recruit African American teachers to help close the racial achievement gap? cache/vm40xp7125m.txt txt/vm40xp7125m.txt