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MenTeach – New England Reception a Great Success!

Marcia Farris given Steve Shuman Award by MenTeach – New England Steve Shuman Award for Support of Men in Early Education and Care Steve Shuman is a longtime early childhood educator and a pioneer activist on behalf  of men in early education. In his long career he served as teacher, director, college teacher and lecturer, […]

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The latest percentage of male teachers in the United States

This is the 2010 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data about numbers and percentages of teachers. If you compare the 2010 data with 2009 there are some changes. Check out the data and then go look at the previous years: Data about Teachers.   The percentage of men teachers – 2010 2010 BLS Current Population Survey Total Employed […]

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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. […]

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Special 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 […]

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Eastern 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 […]

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