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When was the last time you encountered a male teacher? Apparently, not soon enough
Boys will rarely if ever encounter a male teacher until they reach high school, a fact lamented by many both because teacher’s serve as important role models and because the lack of gender diversity tends to turn the profession into a prestige ghetto. “We have so very, very, very, very few men,” Sherry Cleary, executive […]
Read MoreBook on lack of black male teachers released
former Suffolk school principal and her husband have co-authored a book, along with another colleague, about the shortage of black male teachers in America. Dr. Veleka Gatling, who was principal at Elephant’s Fork Elementary School for five years before leaving in 2012 and now works in Virginia Beach Public Schools, and her husband Perez Gatling, […]
Read MoreVery Few Jobs Besides Teaching Offer This Much Reward
I would imagine that the lack of male teachers has long standing, structural causes. Teaching is not, after all, the only historically female profession that remains so. But if that is the case it’s a shame, since elementary classrooms have a lot to offer in career opportunity for men. Even when the tasks themselves are […]
Read MoreWhy Don’t More Men Go Into Teaching?
As Tommie Leaders, 22, approached college graduation last spring, his professors told him he would have no trouble getting hired. “You’re a guy teaching elementary, ” they said. Mr. Leaders, who earned his education degree from the University of Nebraska in June, started teaching fifth grade last month in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He is the […]
Read MoreGentlemen, Preschool Is Calling
Glenn Peters knew he would be in the minority when he started training to teach preschool as part of New York City’s rollout of universal pre-K, the largest such initiative in the country. But he didn’t realize just how rare men are in the profession until he attended a resume-building workshop for aspiring pre-K teachers. […]
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