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Male Call: Black 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 Tuesday. 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 to […]
Read MoreMayor’s Summer Youth Employment program is a great success!
[MenTeach: Mr. Holm has been working to recruit young men to work in his preschool through the Mayor’s Summer Youth Program. Others are working to replicate the program in ever major city using Workforce funding that is available every summer.] Each year the City of Cambridge offers High School Students summer work in the public […]
Read MoreNeeded: More black male teachers in Florida
The Ketterlinus Elementary first-graders are typical 6- and 7-year-olds. A little giggly. A little antsy. And a lot chatty. Their teacher is anything but typical in this St. Augustine school. “You’d better tighten up,” Curtis Lewis, 27, tells a couple of boys getting a little too rambunctious. In a school that has only three male […]
Read MoreWhy don’t men want to teach?
Primary schools have long been an almost entirely man-free zone, but research published last week suggests that secondary schools could soon be heading the same way. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency 23.8% of those qualifying to become teachers in 2006-07 were men – a fall of 1.5% on the previous year and the […]
Read MoreWhat do children think: Does it matter if your teacher is male?
What do the children think? Read comments from children from Europe about their beliefs about having a male teacher. Boys can do better at school when their teachers are also male, according to a survey. It says they work harder and find it easier to talk over any problems they may have with a male teacher. […]
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