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How Boston Public Schools Can Recruit and Retain Black Male Teachers
Our guest author today is Travis J. Bristol, former high school English teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency program, who is currently a research and policy fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) at Stanford University. The challenges faced by Black male […]
Read MoreWhy Are There So Few Men in Jewish Nursery School Classrooms?
It’s circle time in classroom four. Sixteen 5-year-olds sit on the carpet and patiently wait for the weather report. After observing Amsterdam Avenue through the large windows of the JCC in Manhattan’s nursery school, a blond girl in a pink dress announces, “It’s sunny and cloudy.” Her peers seem content with the analysis, and the […]
Read MoreStudy: Minority teachers benefit all
Despite the cry from people of color for more teachers who look like them, both whites and blacks benefit from a more diverse teaching force, according to a study by Center of American Progress. “…A study of the relationship between the presence of African American teachers in schools and African American students’ access to equal […]
Read MoreMale teachers in Western Pennsylvania elementary classrooms
Sixteen kindergarteners sat cross-legged on a rag rug, singing songs about the days of the week and the months of the year. The classroom at Carnegie Elementary School in the Carlynton School District was furnished with the usual toys preferred by 5-year-olds — trucks, blocks, a kitchen play-set, a miniature makeup table. There was a […]
Read MoreProgram aims to attract black males into teaching
A doctoral candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania recently stood in front of high school students from the Homewood Children’s Village and asked how many planned to go to college. All hands shot up, but when he asked how many planned to go into education, the hands dropped down. National statistics echo this scene, which […]
Read MoreHarborne school bucks trend of male primary teacher shortage
One in four primary schools in England are without a male teacher, figures have revealed. But one Birmingham school is bucking the trend, with a trio of male teachers working in the classroom. There were just 26,208 men working as teachers in primary schools as of March 31 this year, compared with 185,023 women, statistics […]
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