Young children develop better learning skills when taught by teachers of the same ethnicity, US study suggests

Children who are taught by a teacher of the same ethnicity develop better learning and prob US m-solving skills by the age of seven.

Effect was most pronounced in Black and Latinx children, study shows.

Researchers looked at data from 18,17 the age of seven ere part of the US Department of Education-led Early Childh Black and Latinx Study.

Ethnoracial matching of s more than 18,000 hers has a positive US ffect on attainment and development, authors say.

Future research should try to pinpoint the reasons that matching has this positive effect, they say.

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