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Half of Gloucestershire primary schools have no male teachers
Half of all primary schools in Gloucestershire have no male teachers. New analysis of school workforce figures has revealed that 52 primary schools in Gloucestershire have an all-female teaching staff. Excluding schools where the gender split of teachers is not available, that works out as 50 per cent of all primaries in our area. Experts […]
Read MoreNursery Management: International – Men of the world
Achieving real gender balance in the early years continues to flummox countries across the world. On average in OECD countries, just 3.2 per cent of pre-primary teachers are male, with the rate lower than 1 per cent in most of Eastern Europe, Israel and Portugal. Despite a 20 per cent minimum target for male workers […]
Read MoreHistory: The Teacher Corps (1966)
[MenTeach: In a recent article in March 2020 “[Warren] Farrell has also recommended to the White House a Male Teacher Corps — giving scholarships to men to become elementary school teachers in exchange for serving at least two years as one. He found that children most in jeopardy go from mom-only homes to female teachers […]
Read MoreWhy Men of Color Like Me Are Leaving the Classroom
I had never taught Tatiana before. Yet, after a Latinx student meeting in Oakland, the 12th grader unexpectedly embraced me, sobbing: “You’re the first Mexican teacher I’ve seen at this school; I just wanted to say thank you.” Translation: I’ve never seen someone like you in a position of academic importance. I understood Tatiana. In […]
Read MoreSummit for male students of color discusses the difficulties they face in going to college — and finishing
Education professor J. Luke Wood has spent years researching and talking about the challenges male students of color have in pursuing and attaining a college diploma — family income, social stigmas, complicated experiences in elementary and high school. On Wednesday, he shared what he’s learned with about 80 students from 10 area community colleges gathered […]
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