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Education facing shortage of African American male teachers
Rodney McCloud is something of a rarity in the education profession. He’s an African American male educator who teaches a STEM-related class. McCloud teaches drafting at Carroll High School and is one of just a few African American male teachers in the system and the state. Nationwide, just two percent of all public school teachers […]
Read MoreWill More Black Male Teachers Help Black Boys Better Succeed In School?
Educator Christopher Emdin has unhappy memories of being a young black student taught by a black male teacher who didn’t see value in him as a person. Now, he sees his experiences persists among students he’s interviewed and worked with. An associate professor at Teachers College Columbia University, Emdin’s ideas and experiences differ from a […]
Read MoreVideo: Male Teachers in Mississippi
Across the country, teaching is considered an overwhelmingly female profession. According to menteach.org in the Mississippi School Systems, grades k-12, only seventeen percent of teachers are made up of males. The marines may be looking for a few good men but Mississippi School Systems are in the same position. For many students in grade school […]
Read MoreRecent college graduate returns to classroom: Town welcomes fourth-grade teacher
From college football player and aspiring coach to fourth-grade teacher. That’s how Adam Langan ended up in Nisswa. “I kind of lost interest in football the second year I was playing and really gained more interest in teaching,” Langan said. “(I) realized that teaching was really what I wanted to do.” A 2016 graduate of […]
Read More‘We could change a life’: Summerville teacher to start male mentoring program
Growing up, Summerville teacher ReZsaun Lewis never felt connected with school. He grew up in a rough North Charleston neighborhood and watched his two brothers suffer from poor decisions. Lewis said he, too, might have ended up in jail like one of them, or on a different life path, had his middle school chorus teacher […]
Read MoreWhy Black Men Quit Teaching
How can we help black boys succeed in school? One popular answer is that we need more black male teachers. The logic appears simple: Black boys are not faring well, and the presence of black men as teachers and role models will fix this problem. The former secretary of education, Arne Duncan, brought this theory […]
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