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Home Blog Recent Op-Eds Spiked Kids don’t need teachers who ‘look like them’

Kids don’t need teachers who ‘look like them’


"There are many social, economic and cultural factors that shape pupil performance in English schools. But the racial and ethnic identity of schoolteachers isn’t one of them.

We need to leave racial identity politics behind."

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— Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibehsan) September 6, 2023

This article was originally published in Spiked.

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