2014
Harborne school bucks trend of male primary teacher shortage
One in four primary schools in England are without a male teacher, figures have revealed. But one Birmingham school is bucking the trend, with a trio of male teachers working in the classroom. There were just 26,208 men working as teachers in primary schools as of March 31 this year, compared with 185,023 women, statistics […]
Read MoreWhere Did All the Male Teachers Go? France Worries That Boy Students May Be Suffering
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Figaro. There are too many women in English schools, declared British Prime Minister David Cameron. In order to restore authority in the classrooms, Cameron thinks that […]
Read MoreWe need more black male teachers like me
Mario Shaw is a 7th grade teacher at Charlotte’s Ranson Middle School and a Teach for America product. With the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling this Saturday, Shaw wanted to reflect on where things stand today on inequalities in public education. Perhaps his most important point: Black males make […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – April 2014
MenTeach E-News April 2014 1) Get Paid: Need photographs of men teaching 2) Grants seek black males to teach in elementary schools 3) Where Are All The Male Teachers [Infographic] 4) Men in Early Childhood Education at the World Forum 2014 in Puerto Rico 5) Deputy Prime Minister’s wife hails ‘cojones’ of men who do […]
Read MoreMoms’ stories: Where are the men in Irish childcare?
Although we are very happy with Little Man’s crèche, one thing that Charlie and I really feel it is lacking is a male presence. For 8-10 hours a day on the days he is in childcare, Little Man is in a solely female environment. There are no male childcare workers there. And this is not […]
Read MoreSteady hand, big heart
Keith May’s first big lesson as a first-grade teacher came during a Pendleton Round-Up in the 1980s, when he took his class to watch slack on his very first field trip. “We’re sitting in the south grandstand, somebody ropes a calf, the calf falls, it breaks a leg and the leg is flopping all over. The kids […]
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