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Do White People Get It? Racism Through the Eyes of a Black Male Teacher
The video of George Floyd taking his last breath was difficult for me to process. I experienced anger, sadness, fear, frustration, disgust, outrage, and betrayal. I can’t express what I felt when Floyd begged the officer to remove his knee from his neck and called out to his deceased mother. Watching him being restrained in […]
Read MoreEducate ME Early program hopes to increase presence of diverse male teachers in early education
There’s a new push to increase the number of men of color in the classroom. According to the nonprofit Early Learning Indiana, there’s a major lack of ethnic and gender diversity in early childhood education. Pre-K Teacher Zachary Ferguson loves his job. Everything from story time over Zoom calls, to his time back in the […]
Read MoreOnly 2 percent of Black men make-up teacher workforce
It’s staggering statistic, only two percent of black men make-up the teacher workforce in this country. But with a growing population of minorities in public schools, research shows more diversity is needed when it comes to leadership. Warren Central Intermediate school teacher Woodrow Price loves his job. He has been teaching for 13 years and […]
Read MoreNow, More than Ever, America Needs More Black Male Social Studies Teachers
For Black students in America, having a same-race social studies teacher is extremely rare. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), social studies teachers make up just 7% of the entire teacher workforce. And of all social studies teachers, roughly 94% are White (54% men and 40% women). Just 3% of America’s social […]
Read MoreJapanese Agency bans male babysitters after string of pedophile cases
The Asahi Shibun – Japan Male babysitters were taken off the books of a leading babysitter placement service agency after a series of shocking predatory pedophile incidents took place while parents were away from their children. The decision was met by a torrent of criticism that it fans prejudice against male sitters and nursery teachers. […]
Read More‘Tackling racism in society means more black teachers’
I write this article from many perspectives – as a husband, a new father and a Christian. But also from one that in my teaching career has been relatively rare: that of a black, male teacher. Indeed, in my time in education, I can count the number of black, male teachers I have encountered on […]
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