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Anti-Racist Educators in Texas are Building a Movement. It’s Time for Our Colleagues to Get on Board
I’ll never forget the moment when a fellow teacher, a white colleague I had worked with for years, got in my face and told me that I didn’t care about a Black male student. She did this in front of my entire class, in MY classroom. I’ll never forget how powerless I felt in that […]
Read MoreAlabama A&M incentivizes future male minority teachers with 2 years tuition
Diversity in the classroom matters. Alabama A&M is spending money to support that statement. If you’re a man, identify as a minority race and want to be a teacher, you could get two years of your tuition paid for. The program is called the Males for Alabama Education initiative. It’s all possible thanks to a […]
Read MoreBlack man named Texas Teacher of the Year for first time: ‘I’m not the first to deserve it’
An elementary teacher is the first Black man to be named Texas Teacher of the Year. “I’m the first to win it, but I’m not the first to deserve it,” Eric Hale told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Eric Hale teaches first grade and kindergarten at David G. Burnet Elementary School in Dallas and was […]
Read MoreMen in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework
If you want a husband who shares housework more equitably, marry a nurse, a teacher or hair stylist–or someone who’s in a female-focused career. Men in predominantly female jobs will perform 25 percent more household chores than a partner who works in a male-dominated profession like an electrician or engineer, a study (PDF) of heterosexual couples from […]
Read MoreBlack Male Educators In St. Louis Have A Formula For Boosting Their Numbers
Darryl Diggs Jr. only had two African American male educators in his school years. He met the first one, a physical education teacher, in grade school — and then another, a physiology teacher, in high school. At college, he only had one black male professor. Today, Diggs, 37, finds himself in a similar position. An […]
Read MoreBlack Male Teacher Creates Online Hustle University To Support Parents Struggling With Crisis Fatigue
Hotep left his kindergarten classroom to start Hustle University so he could help low-performing schools across the United States. For this tumultuous school year, he is revealing his latest solution: Hustle U Homeschool; an online portal providing social and emotional educational resources to families struggling with the “new normal”. Hotep created his online homeschool after […]
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