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African-American male teachers are a missing ingredient
William Alexander was all ears at his mother’s home in Riverside during President Barack Obama’s back-to-school message to kids Sept. 8. The Oakland elementary school teacher, who was in the area attending a conference, knows the importance of encouraging children to stay in school. In 2004, he became the first in his family to go […]
Read MoreWhat do parents think about male teachers?
[MenTeach: More and more college and university students are doing surveys asking about male teachers. They notice that there are so few men so they end up doing a research project. The following are some comments from parents in answer to a survey: 1 a) If your child/children currently has or use to have a […]
Read MorePhiladelphia grooms future teachers at Parkway West High School
Leon Sullivan’s teaching internship at Parkway West’s Urban Education Academy has taught him many lessons. Among them: “You’ve got to be patient and understanding. You can’t let what they say get to you. You’ve got to be willing to go back over some things. (And) when kids act a certain type of way, you don’t […]
Read MoreWhere have all the teachers of color gone?
It’s 11:05 a.m. and 28 students at Fulton Elementary School in Germantown quietly file into Christopher Wright’s 6th grade math class. After taking their seats, they dive into their daily series of equations on the blackboard. After making his way around the room checking each student’s progress, he asks for the answers. Hands shoot up, […]
Read MoreSome education jobs pay women more
It’s a common complaint: men make more than women in the workforce. But while that’s true overall (a recent study showed that full-time working women made 80% of the salary full-time working men made in 2009), it isn’t true for every career. Here are four careers where women bring home more bacon than their male […]
Read MoreBucking the trend over male teachers
Tyneside is bucking the trend when it comes to the number of male primary school teachers – but they still make up just over a quarter of the workforce. Just 15 per cent of teaching staff in primary schools are male, according to the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). But figures from South […]
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