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MenTeach E-News – December 2012
MenTeach E-News December 2012 1) Foundation pays education expenses to increase male black and Hispanic elementary teachers 2) Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren’t as Effective in the Classroom…Yet 3) Acclaimed Author: Teaching not just for women 4) London Early Years – Men in Childcare Report 5) Missing: male teachers 6) In The Land Of Women: […]
Read MoreFrom the front lines to the front of the class
Administrators are increasingly finding that many servicemembers make good teachers Stationed for 13 months along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in 2007 and 2008, Brian Thompson had a lot of time to wonder what could come next for him. In charge of a mortar squad with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, Thompson often thought he’d go […]
Read MoreU.S. schools seek role models for boys
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talks to The Globe and Mail’s Kate Hammer about why boys are falling behind south of the border, and what can be done to close the gap between genders in the classroom. Teachers, he argues, will be central to addressing this problem and he and his staff are looking […]
Read MoreScotland lagging in supply of male primary teachers
Statistics obtained by The Herald show the proportion of men trained as primary teachers in Scotland has dropped from 14% in 2007/09 to just 13% in 2010/11. In contrast, the numbers trained in England have risen from 18% two years ago to 20% this year. The decline in Scotland comes amid continuing concerns that there […]
Read MoreRaising Boys’ Achievement Involves More Male Teachers
It’s no shock to any reader – teacher or parent – to learn that boys are not just falling behind, they’re sinking. In the middle school where I teach, of our nearly 1,100 students, roughly 80% of the special education students are male. More than 2/3 of the students failing classes are male. More than […]
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