Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

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Lots to get to today.

Shout out to the Texas Democrats who are continuing to resist

at all efforts, their ability to be taken over by the Republicans in the Texas state legislature.

They have fled the state as we announced yesterday and we are hoping to get some of the

folks who are intimately connected with that story on these airways later on this

week. So stay tuned for that. But today I want to start with some good news because it's not often

that we get good news. And this good news is going to be really important in light of what's

happening with the overall state of education today. In an article by a postdoctoral researcher

Joseph Sageman, S-A-G-E-M-A-N, and this is an article that initially appeared in the conversation, which is a really great outlet for those of you who are interested in how professors are thinking about a number of issues that we're looking at from a variety of perspectives.

A really powerful article by Professor Sageman called Why Mentorship

from Black Teachers Matters. And this was a really important article that explored not

just the fact that, yes, black teachers matter, but looked more into why. And according to Professor

Sageman, over the past two decades, there have been a significant number of studies.

Economist and educational scholars who have produced these studies have basically been documenting

what happens when black students are assigned to black teachers. What we have learned from

those studies, and as reported by Professor Sageman, is that when a black student is assigned

to a black teacher,

a few things happen. Number one, their math and reading scores improve. Their rates of

absenteeism and suspensions drop. And ultimately, they are more likely able to be enrolled in

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