by Joe Kleinsasser - Wichita State University
It may not come as any surprise that there's a shortage of male elementary teachers in the United States. But you may be surprised to learn how long the shortage has existed. Wichita State University education professor Dennis Kear explains.
Kear: "The shortage of male teachers can be traced all the way back to the Civil War. Approximately 600,000 soldiers died and they had to be replaced as far as the teachers among them, by females."
Kear says there's no indication that an end is in sight to the shortage of male elementary school teachers.
