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Book on lack of black male teachers released
former Suffolk school principal and her husband have co-authored a book, along with another colleague, about the shortage of black male teachers in America. Dr. Veleka Gatling, who was principal at Elephant’s Fork Elementary School for five years before leaving in 2012 and now works in Virginia Beach Public Schools, and her husband Perez Gatling, […]
Read MoreVery Few Jobs Besides Teaching Offer This Much Reward
I would imagine that the lack of male teachers has long standing, structural causes. Teaching is not, after all, the only historically female profession that remains so. But if that is the case it’s a shame, since elementary classrooms have a lot to offer in career opportunity for men. Even when the tasks themselves are […]
Read MoreWhy Don’t More Men Go Into Teaching?
As Tommie Leaders, 22, approached college graduation last spring, his professors told him he would have no trouble getting hired. “You’re a guy teaching elementary, ” they said. Mr. Leaders, who earned his education degree from the University of Nebraska in June, started teaching fifth grade last month in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He is the […]
Read MoreGentlemen, Preschool Is Calling
Glenn Peters knew he would be in the minority when he started training to teach preschool as part of New York City’s rollout of universal pre-K, the largest such initiative in the country. But he didn’t realize just how rare men are in the profession until he attended a resume-building workshop for aspiring pre-K teachers. […]
Read MoreMore men seeking ‘manny’ work due to lousy economy
Greg Carroll left his job as an executive chef in 2009, when his boss asked him to slash his 500-person staff by half. Since then, Carroll has done some catering, some consulting and some cooking in private homes. But full-time work has proven elusive. So a few months ago, the 51-year-old Carroll posted an ad […]
Read MoreNew teachers, nervous as kindergartners, prepare for the first day of school
Along with the hundreds of thousands of students heading back to school across the region this week and next, there are hundreds of new teachers, some of them leading a classroom for the first time. And some of those teachers are just as nervous as the students. Bryan Curtis, who starts his first teaching job […]
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