Bringing male teachers closer to parity will require targeted recruitment and sustained support, particularly in early grades ...

Although more than one-third of public school students nationwide are Black, less than 2 percent of teachers are Black men. North Carolina Central University wants to close that numbers gap. To create ...

With a mission that includes helping boost the number of African American male teachers in elementary schools in Minnesota, Black Men Teach has landed a $200,000 grant from the nation’s second-largest ...

ALBANY - An Albany school leader is recruiting young men in an effort to single-handedly ensure more children have at least one Black teacher in their lives. About 15% of students in the United States ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The lack of male minority teachers is a problem that exists across the country as well as in Richmond, according to the 2019 National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson. Robinson now ...

Ninth graders at Philadelphia’s Martin Luther King High School are beginning their high school careers with a set of teachers who look like them. That’s something Principal Keisha Wilkins thinks will ...

Jamaal Grant was studying biology at Colby College in Maine when a friend asked if he’d be interested in teaching after graduation. Grant had planned to go to graduate school and build a career in ...

In his American Families Plan, President Joe Biden expressed the importance of investing in a racially diverse teaching workforce. His plan calls for Congress to invest $9 billion in programs that ...