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MenTeach E-News
August 2008 1) Join the Northeast USA mailing list or start your own 2) Pose with someone and we’ll post your photo 3) A summer program that successfully recruits young men 4) Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities 5) The ongoing cartoon debate – offensive or lack of sense of humor? […]
Read MoreNew grant and loan forgiveness legislation
Final Higher Education Act includes Early Childhood Educator Provisions for loan forgiveness, compensation initiatives, and grants to states for professional development systems The House and Senate have passed the conference bill (H.R. 4137) for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which now goes to the President for his signature. NAEYC worked closely with members […]
Read MoreTeacher & Nursing – a profession or a gender?
A few good men Male nurses defy stereotypes and discrimination to find satisfaction in a female-dominated profession Mark Buike, RN, feels at ease and confident as a male nurse. Buike, a Nurse II in the pediatrics ICU at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, said that any door he has wanted to walk through has been […]
Read MoreYou Teach What? The experiences of a teacher-principal-coach
You teach what?” That is the phrase I often heard when I would tell my fellow coaches what I taught. Being a high school basketball coach and first grade teacher was not something they were expecting to hear. They expected me to tell them that I taught physical education or social studies, not that I […]
Read MoreMen too afraid to teach
Where have all the male school teachers gone? Figures obtained by The Bulletin reveal there has been a consistent decline in male teachers across the Gold Coast region, with females outnumbering males by almost four to one in the classroom. Poor salary and a negative perception of the industry has been blamed for the drop […]
Read MoreProgram helps get men into teaching
After two years with an all-male classroom, sixth-grade teacher Eric Lewis says he thinks he’s starting to see where his work makes a difference. As one of 27 black men recruited to teach in Aiken County for the 2005-06 school year, according to state Education Department data, the North Augusta Middle School teacher brought something […]
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