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Help Boys Get More Out of Elementary Education

From their elementary education through their high school days, boys are struggling to succeed in the classroom. Boys receive as many as 70 percent of Ds and Fs given in schools, create up to 90 percent of classroom discipline problems, and constitute 80 percent of high school dropouts, according to author and educator Michael Gurian […]
Read MoreFew Good Men: University Class, research look at lack of male early childhood teachers
Indiana University School of Education Alumni Association New summer class offered Early in his teaching career, Shaun Johnson felt odd about his career path. Already facing the challenges of any teacher in the Washington, D.C. public school system, he said that during his year teaching, he constantly confronted his inner feelings. “Who am I to […]
Read MoreFormer Chief Education Officer Ralph Boyce calls for male teacher
SECONDARY SCHOOL students favouring a technical education over an academic one are in line for a better deal from the Ministry of Education, with training and certification. “Soon we will be coming with a package,” Chief Education Officer, Wendy Griffith-Watson, said during the Down To Brass Tacks radio programme recently. “It was part of curriculum reform since […]
Read MoreWorkplace reversal

At Little River Elementary School in South Riding, second-grade teacher Timothy Bjorseth, affectionately known as “Mr. B,” is one of only six male teachers among a faculty of 45. A 10-year instructor in education, Bjorseth said he was even more of a minority at the first elementary school where he taught in Illinois. He said […]
Read MoreArea man began teaching career early
It was nearly two decades ago when Becky Worlow asked an obviously frustrated class of Aberdeen fourth graders if anyone understood fractions. One lonely hand went in the air, and the teacher turned the class over to the little boy in hopes he could reach his classmates in a way she couldn’t. He did. And […]
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