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Education facing shortage of African American male teachers
Rodney McCloud is something of a rarity in the education profession. He’s an African American male educator who teaches a STEM-related class. McCloud teaches drafting at Carroll High School and is one of just a few African American male teachers in the system and the state. Nationwide, just two percent of all public school teachers […]
Read MoreWhy we need more male teachers and more female principals
Classrooms are a microcosm of society. In our schools, children learn the stories they will tell themselves for the rest of their lives, stories formed from the material they have around them. What will today’s primary children tell themselves about gender? Men have been steadily disappearing from Irish classrooms since the 1970s. In 1961, nearly […]
Read MoreFree teacher training program for men labeled gender discrimination
Global Times A new teacher training program has been created for men in Fujian province, Beijing News reported on Sept. 26. The project was initiated last year by the Fujian Provincial Education Department, together with three other local departments and five teacher training universities. The purpose of the program is to ease the serious gender […]
Read MoreEditorial: My father was a teacher
For a little over a decade, my life has been dedicated to the growth and success of students of all ages – university students, high/middle school students, and for the last eight years, elementary students. Through my adolescent and young adulthood years I had to grapple with the dreaded question from family, friends, and respected […]
Read MoreWill More Black Male Teachers Help Black Boys Better Succeed In School?
Educator Christopher Emdin has unhappy memories of being a young black student taught by a black male teacher who didn’t see value in him as a person. Now, he sees his experiences persists among students he’s interviewed and worked with. An associate professor at Teachers College Columbia University, Emdin’s ideas and experiences differ from a […]
Read MoreVideo: Male Teachers in Mississippi
Across the country, teaching is considered an overwhelmingly female profession. According to menteach.org in the Mississippi School Systems, grades k-12, only seventeen percent of teachers are made up of males. The marines may be looking for a few good men but Mississippi School Systems are in the same position. For many students in grade school […]
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