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Efforts to recruit more diverse teachers paying off for city schools
A room full of 12 and 13-year-olds in a seventh grade Pre-AP science class cut open raw chicken wings to identify the muscles, bones and ligaments. “What connects the muscle to the bone?” asks teacher Christopher Mosley at Hudson K-8 School. “The tendon!” Ricardo Chandler, 13, said proudly. Mosley then asks a table of students […]
Read MoreAmerica needs more black and Hispanic male teachers
The statistics have almost become cliché: Black elementary and high school students score lower on standardized tests, on average, than their white or Asian counterparts. For years, educators have searched for solutions. For Kwame Griffith, a senior vice president at Teach For America, the way to help narrow this achievement gap is by recruiting more […]
Read MoreMale student-teachers in elementary education
Over the past 20 years, the number of male teachers in both elementary and middle school grades have plateaued at around 16 percent, a number that remains true at La Crescent Elementary School. The school has five male teachers on staff and only one male student-teacher this year. Garrett Soper is that student-teacher and he […]
Read MoreAwards given at MenTeach – New England @ MassAEYC conference
On March 4 at the MassAEYC conference- MenTeach-New England and MassAEYC held our annual reception and award evening. Men Teach gave out two awards: 1) The Steve Shuman Award in Support of Men in Early Education and Care – this award was given to Stuart Cleinman now retired- longtime teacher, administrator, Director, Head Start […]
Read More‘Work Hard, Be Hard’ and ‘Work Hard, Be Nice,’ dueling takes on KIPP
Cambridge College education professor Jim Horn presents his new book, “Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through ‘No Excuses’ Teaching,” as a necessary antidote to my 2009 book, “Work Hard. Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America.” We are polar opposites on the issue of KIPP, the nation’s largest charter […]
Read MoreWhere are the male African-American teachers?
Tim Gates knew exactly what he wanted to be at a very young age. “There are a lot of teachers in my family,” Gates said. “I’ve always wanted to be a teacher.” Gates is teaching 5th grade at Martin Luther King, Junior Elementary School in Oklahoma City and loving every minute of it. “It gives […]
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