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In Praise of the Dude Teaching at My Son’s Preschool
I turned to close the preschool gate the other day and looked back to see what my three-year-old son was up to. And this is what I saw: His teacher in a laughing jog, leading a pack of toddlers in a full sprint. A few weeks ago I saw this teacher sliding on the ice […]
Read MoreChina’s New Five-Year Plan: Be a Man
Two days before the temperature in my town dropped to -9°F, my dad asked me, as he tends to do at the coldest point in the winter, to join him on a backcountry ski trip to Mount Moosilauke. Moosilauke is in Benton, New Hampshire. It may not be hyperborean by the standards of Alert, Nunavut, […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – February 2016
MenTeach E-News February 2016 1) Update for Malaysian 2) Wanted in China: More male teachers 3) Jobs: Why more men should become primary school teachers 4) Dear MenTeach – How do I change careers to become a teacher? 5) Group on assignment to recruit and retain black male teachers 6) Black, Male Teachers: a Dwindling […]
Read MoreMale teachers outnumber females at New Zealand Hamilton’s Rhode Street School
Male teachers outnumber females at a Hamilton primary school, bucking a national trend which sees women dominate the profession. There are 10 male teachers at Hamilton’s Rhode Street School and six females. Rhode Street School is reversing the national trend in which women make up about 84 per cent of the primary teaching workforce. Teaching […]
Read More‘Work Hard, Be Hard’ and ‘Work Hard, Be Nice,’ dueling takes on KIPP
Cambridge College education professor Jim Horn presents his new book, “Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through ‘No Excuses’ Teaching,” as a necessary antidote to my 2009 book, “Work Hard. Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America.” We are polar opposites on the issue of KIPP, the nation’s largest charter […]
Read MoreWhere are the male African-American teachers?
Tim Gates knew exactly what he wanted to be at a very young age. “There are a lot of teachers in my family,” Gates said. “I’ve always wanted to be a teacher.” Gates is teaching 5th grade at Martin Luther King, Junior Elementary School in Oklahoma City and loving every minute of it. “It gives […]
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