Math teachers in virtual classes tend to view girls and Black students as less capable

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Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Thacker, and Joseph Cimpian

Our experiment suggests teachers are identifying Black students as potentially having disabilities more often than white students who produced the same answers to math problems. Further, girls are not being given equal chances to be placed in gifted programs even when they give answers identical to those given by boys.