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Number of male school teachers in Bolton [England] drops
Of the 1,342 secondary school teachers in Bolton whose gender was listed in the School Workforce Census last year, 444 were male. That meant men made up just 33 per cent of the workforce, compared with 38 per cent a decade earlier. The proportion of male teachers across all of the area’s schools, including primary, […]
Read MoreBlack man named Texas Teacher of the Year for first time: ‘I’m not the first to deserve it’
An elementary teacher is the first Black man to be named Texas Teacher of the Year. “I’m the first to win it, but I’m not the first to deserve it,” Eric Hale told The Washington Post on Wednesday. Eric Hale teaches first grade and kindergarten at David G. Burnet Elementary School in Dallas and was […]
Read MoreMenTeach E-News – October 2020
MenTeach E-News October 2020 1) Men in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework 2) Justice For All: Lack of Black Male Educators in Florida Area Schools 3) Legislation Introduced Addressing Teacher Diversity in NJ Schools 4) Atlanta Man Becomes One of Georgia’s First Black Male Teachers of the Year 5) Editorial: Getting back to the first […]
Read MoreMen in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework
If you want a husband who shares housework more equitably, marry a nurse, a teacher or hair stylist–or someone who’s in a female-focused career. Men in predominantly female jobs will perform 25 percent more household chores than a partner who works in a male-dominated profession like an electrician or engineer, a study (PDF) of heterosexual couples from […]
Read MoreBlack Male Educators In St. Louis Have A Formula For Boosting Their Numbers
Darryl Diggs Jr. only had two African American male educators in his school years. He met the first one, a physical education teacher, in grade school — and then another, a physiology teacher, in high school. At college, he only had one black male professor. Today, Diggs, 37, finds himself in a similar position. An […]
Read More‘Brother Apple’ sows seeds of approval in China
Exercise videos boost acceptance of male teachers at kindergartens Kindergarten teacher “Brother Apple” set out with the intention of keeping youngsters fit during the COVID-19 epidemic, but quickly became an online icon. Xia Haoyang, who teaches at a kindergarten in Qingdao, Shandong province, kept the nickname his students had given him when he started uploading […]
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