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“Getting More Men and Blacks into Teaching”

Filed under Career Exploration, Diversity and Careers
Posted by Libraries, January 30, 2006
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Carol Chmelynski, Education Digest, 1/06, Vol. 71, Issue 5, pp. 40-42

In terms of gender roles and expectations, teaching tends to be a very stratified profession. Typically, male teachers can be found teaching older students, while female teachers work with younger children. While the proportion of male teachers, in relation to their female counterparts, has always been comparatively meager, there is additional concern about this issue today. Currently, less than a quarter of all public school teachers are male, the lowest figure seen in 40 years. Minority male teachers are even more uncommon. Numerous organizations are working to combat this pervasive trend, creating funding opportunities, mentoring initiatives, and other such programs in the hopes that, as one educator notes, “our classrooms … represent our society.”

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