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Repeat after me: we need more men
I have been immobilised by flu, so my husband offered to pick up our daughter from nursery earlier last week. Isabella looked worried: ‘Ooooooooh, I don’t know if they allow men in our school,’ she said as she shook her head. I suddenly realised that both her (co-ed) nursery and the (co-ed) primary school it […]
Read MoreGoodbye, Mr. Chips: Male teachers scarce
One group puts the percentage of male teachers in the U.S. at a 40-year low, with Oregon doing better than most states. Some say the disparity hurts students BEAVERTON — No matter how unruly a class gets, when P.J. Hanson walks into the room all the kids sit up straight. “It’s so weird,” the second-grade […]
Read MoreThis teacher is no ordinary Joe
Rafe Esquith’s classroom is dingy and cluttered, but it hardly matters. Within seconds inside it, it becomes clear why Esquith has been anointed as one of those magical teachers who propels his poor, immigrant students to impossible heights. In less than an hour on a recent Tuesday, his fifth-graders, many of whom speak with traces […]
Read MoreA New University Course: Men In Education and the Male Teacher
We have been in touch in the past and it has been quite some time, several months perhaps, since our last correspondence. Things have nonetheless picked up in my work for the issue of male teachers and I wanted to update you on a project of mine. Here at Indiana University, I proposed a course […]
Read MoreBoy, what a difference
Marks are up, misbehaving is down when girls aren’t in the classroom She was a kind-faced principal, on the verge of retirement and clearly loved kids. I was visiting her for a story about crumbling school buildings. We’d finished the tour of her school and were chatting on the bench outside her office, the same […]
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