Recommendations for future research and policy regarding teacher training are offered

Social Justice Warriors really, really want America to be a deeply racist country in accord with their reform-Marxism Frankfurter School postmodern theory and critical theory. And America keeps disappointing them.

There was jubilation amongst the SJW crowd a few years ago when social psychology (the field with the lowest replicability among the humanities) proposed that people might harbor unconscious racist attitudes and deployed the Implicit Attitude Tests (IAT) to prove that all white Americans were racist. From Wikipedia.

In 1995, social psychology researchers Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji asserted that the idea of implicit and explicit memory can apply to social constructs as well. If memories that are not accessible to awareness can influence our actions, associations can also influence our attitudes and behavior. Thus, measures that tap into individual differences in associations of concepts should be developed. This would allow researchers to understand attitudes that cannot be measured through explicit self-report methods due to lack of awareness or social-desirability bias. The first IAT article was published three years later in 1998.

The first check to this celebration was when it turned out that African-Americans also had high IATs against African-Americans.

SJWs did a lot of research to try and rescue their pet theory. The second check to its validity was when IAT results were not predictive of actual behaviors. In other words, whatever people's life experiences and accumulated attitudes, conscious and subconscious, when it came to decision-making, their conscious choices dominated whatever implicit attitudes they might have.

Here comes some more research invalidating IAT and the cherished notion of America as a mass of socially constructed racism. From Do Early Educators’ Implicit Biases Regarding Sex and Race Relate to Behavior Expectations and Recommendations of Preschool Expulsions and Suspensions? by Walter S. Gilliam, Angela N. Maupin, Chin R. Reyes, Maria Accavitti, and Frederick Shic.

Would it surprise you to discover that the answer to their question is, No? Whatever assumptions teachers might have regarding sex and race, as measured by IAT, they are not manifested in their behaviors. From the Abstract.

No differences were found based on recommendations regarding suspension or expulsion, except that Black teachers in general recommended longer periods of disciplinary exclusion regardless of child gender/race.

Well, if you are an SJW, that's disappointing. If you are a proud American, that is both expected and heartening.

No self-regarding SJW research project would be complete without the almost mandatory closing suggestion:

Recommendations for future research and policy regarding teacher training are offered.

Reform Marxism may be as ungrounded in reality as the original version but there is, apparently, always need for more research. SJW researchers won't fund themselves.