TEACHER ATTITUDES AND EXPECTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH RACE

The purpose of this presentation is to report cn a study undertaken by the author to:Isses teachers ' social perceptions of dialectal differences among ju:.ior high school males. Male and female teachers judged the academia ability and school behavior of three black and three white male:::tudent speakers representing upper-middle-class, middle-class, and lower-class background, based on their spoken language. Teachers heard tape-recordings of these junior high school students reading the same brief passage. Black and white teachers, 13 of each, were selected by a random procedure from a junior high school in the Dade County, Florida, Public School System. This particular school was selected because of the black and white ratio (21 percent black, 79 percent white) of faculty desegregation, and the diversity in the teachers ' birthplaces, educational backgrounds, and geographical locations of their teachin