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My Favorite Teacher
Many great words have been written on behalf of teachers. I consider myself lucky to have had a least a dozen great teachers, each with their own personalitites, but one common bond, enthusiasm. That enthusiasm was infectious, whatever the subject. Grades 1-8 were spent in Catholic School. Unlike all the bad books out about a […]
Read MoreMen with Class: Beating the Stereotype
Jon White, Randy DeJaynes, James Love: They’re all teachers accused of sexually abusing their students. All of them men. Ken Paxton is the interim principal at Thomas Paine in Urbana. He took over when the school’s principal was put on leave after the Jon White case broke open. He says it forced every male teacher […]
Read MoreHelp Boys Get More Out of Elementary Education
From their elementary education through their high school days, boys are struggling to succeed in the classroom. Boys receive as many as 70 percent of Ds and Fs given in schools, create up to 90 percent of classroom discipline problems, and constitute 80 percent of high school dropouts, according to author and educator Michael Gurian […]
Read MoreArea man began teaching career early
It was nearly two decades ago when Becky Worlow asked an obviously frustrated class of Aberdeen fourth graders if anyone understood fractions. One lonely hand went in the air, and the teacher turned the class over to the little boy in hopes he could reach his classmates in a way she couldn’t. He did. And […]
Read MoreDanger? Men not working
IU ed school students focus on lack of male teachers in elementary, early childhood settings EDITORS: At the bottom of this release are audio comments that are available as mp3 files on the IU School of Education Website at http://education.indiana.edu/audio.html. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Historically low numbers of male teachers at the elementary and early childhood levels […]
Read MoreBlack Male Teachers: A Crisis in Numbers
It was 1992, and the General Assembly realized that it had to get more black and other educators of color into the state’s public school classrooms. So lawmakers ratified the Minority Educator Recruitment and Retention Scholarship “…to address the critical shortage of minority teachers especially in the areas of mathematics and science.” The scholarship awards […]
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