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One man’s struggles to be a teacher
Since I wrote that e-mail to you, I have succeeded in getting placed on the substitute teacher list for the X Unified School District. This did not happen easily. I applied last fall, even getting the fingerprinting done, and though they added many substitutes to their list in December, I was not one of them. […]
Read MoreSpecial Report: Men Teaching in Canada
Teaching elementary or high school has never been a very popular career choice for men. But the number of men choosing to teach in the 21st century is extraordinarily low. Jan Sylvain-Champagne is one of the few men in the first year of a four-year teaching degree at McGill University. Often he is the only […]
Read MoreEastern Kentucky University program aims to attract more African-American males to teaching
Special to The Richmond Register African American children comprise 17 percent of the student population nationwide, but their chances of seeing an African-American male teacher in front of their classroom are about 1 in 100. Hoping to close that gap, Eastern Kentucky University recently became the first college or university in the Commonwealth or any […]
Read MoreFlorida school encouraging more black men to become teachers
When Clifford Brady walked the halls of Roland Park Elementary some 35 years ago, students knew their hair had better be combed and their shirts clean. One of them was Lionel Bryant, a sixth-grader who would grow up to work with students at the same school. “When I looked at that powerful African-American educator, I […]
Read MoreMr. “Magg” talks about Washington Post blog
Washington Post education blogger Valerie Strauss featured my article, “We Need More Men Teaching our Kids,” on her daily blog, The Answer Sheet. This is way cool! In a piece called “Do We Need More Male Teachers?” she wrote, “If you believe, as I do, that teaching (and teaching well) is as important a job as any, […]
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