Danielle Lansing’s scientific contributions

... Virtually every step in the common teacher certification process risks disproportionately excluding prospective teachers of color, providing the greatest gatekeepers for Black and Hispanic teachers (Barnum, 2017). Research continues to show that teachers' scores on licensure exams have no bearing on their ability to raise student achievement and/or overall teacher quality (Chaplin et al., 2017;Kolman et al., 2017;Petchauer, 2018). Rather, teacher racial diversity is consistently found to matter in terms of student achievement, particularly for students of color (Tintiangco-Cubales et al., 2015;Jackson & Knight-Manuel, 2019;Sleeter, 2011;Sleeter, 2015). ...

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Identifying the Invisible Barriers to Diversifying the Teacher Pipeline: Dismantling Racialized Gatekeepers in Teacher Education