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"What perhaps is surprising, however, is new anecdotal and empirical evidence of the positive effects of nonwhite educators for children of all backgrounds. Gloria Ladson-Billings, an African American professor of urban education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put it this way: 'I want to suggest that there is something that may be even more important than black students having black teachers and that is white students having black teachers!''