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Our nation's schools are missing out on a large pool of talent by failing to recruit minority physics teachers, and our nation's minority students--over one third of all high school students today--are very unlikely to have access to minority role models in their physics classes.

Since 2011 the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) project has funded universities to implement a range of activities and programs designed to increase the number of physics majors pursuing teaching careers. The project has been motivated pri- marily by the fact that two-thirds of the nation's high school physics teachers do not have a degree in the subject--a fact that has grave implications for the preparedness of our nation's students to compete in the 21st-century workplace, and for the public's under- standing of science.

A statistic that gets less attention is the tiny fraction of high school physics teachers who are members of minority groups. According to the American Institute of Physics' Statistical Research Center, only about 1.5% of US physics teachers are African-American, and another 1.5% are Hispanic. These figures are even lower than the already low fraction of physics majors belonging to these groups, which hovers around 3% in each case.
The Gazette: Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 7-8
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