Data can and should be used to guide decision making and is certainly critical in the realm of public education. The data on how teacher diversity effects student success continues to be powerful, and The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public School’s Bilingual and Diversity Teacher Pipeline Programs are already proving that long-term recruitment solutions are available in our own backyard. A newly published book by Seth Gershenson, Michael Hanson and Constance A. Lindsay provides a deep look at this topic. Titled "Teacher Diversity and Student Success: Why Racial Representation Matters in the Classroom," the authors have studied and done their own research based on the premise that teachers are the single most important