Applause erupted Friday during a roundtable discussion at Jackson State University, and some of it was for the visiting national education secretary.
William Alexander was all ears at his mother's home in Riverside during President Barack Obama's back-to-school message to kids Sept. 8. The Oakland elementary school teacher, who was in the area attending a conference, knows the importance of encouraging children to stay in school. In 2004, he became the first in his family to go to college.
[MenTeach: More and more college and university students are doing surveys asking about male teachers. They notice that there are so few men so they end up doing a research project. The following are some comments from parents in answer to a survey:
Leon Sullivan's teaching internship at Parkway West's Urban Education Academy has taught him many lessons.
It's 11:05 a.m. and 28 students at Fulton Elementary School in Germantown quietly file into Christopher Wright's 6th grade math class. After taking their seats, they dive into their daily series of equations on the blackboard. After making his way around the room checking each student's progress, he asks for the answers. Hands shoot up, and Wright dashes back to the blackboard.
It's a common complaint: men make more than women in the workforce. But while that's true overall (a recent study showed that full-time working women made 80% of the salary full-time working men made in 2009), it isn't true for every career. Here are four careers where women bring home more bacon than their male counterparts. 
Tyneside is bucking the trend when it comes to the number of male primary school teachers - but they still make up just over a quarter of the workforce.
A major new drive to recruit more male staff to primary schools was launched today as it emerged just one in eight teachers is a man.
This question is in response to the July 4th Washington Post article concerning the relative absence of Black male teachers in our classrooms--only representing 2% in the nation, 8.3% in the District of Columbia, 4.3% in Maryland and 2.6% in Virginia. 
At a church service Sunday to honor African-American male teachers, the talk turned to the mentors who had made a difference in the lives of some black educators.
Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him -- an African-American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high school without ever being taught by a black man.
Sixteen kindergarteners sat cross-legged on a rag rug, singing songs about the days of the week and the months of the year.
When you think of a child care professional, do you ever picture a man? 
At our kids' school, teacher assignment letters are more anticipated than Santa on Christmas day. As soon as they arrive, the moms start texting each other at breakneck speed. When one of my son's friends learned he was assigned a male teacher, his parents were less than pleased.
After 26 years teaching elementary school, Tom White, a third-grade teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, Washington, doesn't give too much thought to the gender imbalance in the teacher's lounge-even though he is one of only five male teachers. What are the differences? Not surprisingly, says White, he is assigned more students who might be in need of a male role model.
When the Houston Alternative Certification Programs for teacher certification were first introduced in 1987, they were met with a great deal of opposition. Not only were some higher education institutions upset by the expedited process of certifying teachers, but teachers themselves were disgruntled by all of the "newbies" who seemed to take an accelerated course toward becoming teachers.
Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen.
As school teachers prepare to return to the classroom, many with new teaching degrees are having a hard time finding jobs.
Preston Rogers' fifth-grade students weren't playing the board games they had on their desks Thursday morning -- they were designing them.
Dawn Braa who teaches at the Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota hosts a blog that broadcasts different professionals each month. In April she has MenTeach talking about the importance of men teaching. After you are done listening to our interview, check out some of the others.
Little Harbour art teacher Andrew French will be the first person to tell you he loves his job, but he is among a minority of men who have been going into a profession dominated by women.
When third-grade teacher Andrew Bean wanders by female colleagues who have stopped to chat about a co-worker's pregnancy, he'll joke, "How 'bout those Seahawks?"
Visit any public school in the United States, and one thing you would be hard-pressed to find is black male teachers.
These are several podcasts conducted by BAM Radio. It's a mix of men who teach talking about their work as teachers and the stereotypes and challenges they face.
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