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MenTeach is a non-profit clearinghouse for anyone seeking information about men teaching. Read moreThe gender gap no one talks about: men missing from care professions Here’s how to fix it.
by Laëtitia Vitaud – Fast Company For decades, in the name of workplace equality we’ve encouraged women to enter male-dominated professions because those jobs are better paid, more prestigious, and more powerful. Women engineers. Women in tech. Women in leadership. That agenda still matters but it is not enough. One of the great blind spots […]
Read MoreHow to Fix the Broken Black Male Teacher Pipeline
Black men now represent only about 2% of teachers nationwide — a noticeable drop from 6.5% in the 2017-2018 school year. The declining presence of Black male teachers in classrooms tells us in no uncertain terms: the nation struggles to recruit and keep male teachers of color. Studies confirm that educators of color serve as […]
Read MoreEditorials: We need more men in early childhood education
by Anthony Segura The first time I met 3-year-old Lincoln and his mother, I didn’t get a smile. Instead, it was hesitation. His mother walked past me, turned to my paraprofessional, and asked in Spanish, “¿Eres la maestra?” (“Are you the teacher?”) When my colleague pointed toward me and said, “The teacher is Mr. Anthony,” […]
Read MoreI’ve had a successful City career … so why am I back at school?
After decades of working in the City, Stephen Hargreaves could have chosen a more relaxing way to spend his fifties. Instead, he has swapped investment banking for a different set of challenges at the front of the classroom, as a maths teacher. It is all the more remarkable as he was expelled from school at […]
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