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MenTeach – New England Reception a Great Success!
Marcia Farris given Steve Shuman Award by MenTeach – New England Steve Shuman Award for Support of Men in Early Education and Care Steve Shuman is a longtime early childhood educator and a pioneer activist on behalf of men in early education. In his long career he served as teacher, director, college teacher and lecturer, […]
Read MoreThe latest percentage of male teachers in the United States
This is the 2010 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data about numbers and percentages of teachers. If you compare the 2010 data with 2009 there are some changes. Check out the data and then go look at the previous years: Data about Teachers. The percentage of men teachers – 2010 2010 BLS Current Population Survey Total Employed […]
Read MoreSpecial Report: Men Teaching in Canada
Teaching elementary or high school has never been a very popular career choice for men. But the number of men choosing to teach in the 21st century is extraordinarily low. Jan Sylvain-Champagne is one of the few men in the first year of a four-year teaching degree at McGill University. Often he is the only […]
Read MoreEastern Kentucky University program aims to attract more African-American males to teaching
Special to The Richmond Register African American children comprise 17 percent of the student population nationwide, but their chances of seeing an African-American male teacher in front of their classroom are about 1 in 100. Hoping to close that gap, Eastern Kentucky University recently became the first college or university in the Commonwealth or any […]
Read MoreFlorida school encouraging more black men to become teachers
When Clifford Brady walked the halls of Roland Park Elementary some 35 years ago, students knew their hair had better be combed and their shirts clean. One of them was Lionel Bryant, a sixth-grader who would grow up to work with students at the same school. “When I looked at that powerful African-American educator, I […]
Read MoreA Few More Few Good Men
Good news for children and families – more men are being employed in early childhood services. But the bad news is continuing for the ECE sector as the percentage of male staff remains lower than it was pre the early 1990s. In 1992 there were 154 men out of a total of 6,568 staff in […]
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