A substantive topic of interest to me is the importance of a diverse teaching workforce as there are disparities between the racial composition of American children and the racial composition of the American teaching force. The three core designs were convergent, explanatory sequential, and exploratory sequential. The Convergent Design The researcher: Collects quantitative and qualitative data concurrently, Analyzes the two data sets separately, and Mixes the two databases by merging the results during interpretation (and sometimes during data analysis). The Explanatory Design The researcher: Starts by collecting and analyzing quantitative data, Collects and analyzes qualitative data in a second phase as a follow-up to the quantitative results, and Connects the phases by using the quantitative results to shape the qualitative research questions, sampling, and data collection. The Exploratory Design The researcher: Collects and analyzes qualitative data first followed by quantitative data, Analyzes the qualitative data and uses results to build to the subsequent quantitative phase, and Connects the phases by using the qualitative results to shape the quantitative phase by specifying research questions and variables, developing an instrument, and/or generating a typology. QUESTION: Using this information, describe how the topic "the importance of a diverse teaching workforce as there are disparities between the racial composition of American children and the racial composition of the American teaching force" could be studied using each of the three core designs. What are some potential affordances and constraints of each of the designs