Efforts are underway to recruit more teachers of color, and one such successful initiative is in New York. NYC Men Teach was started two years ago under Mayor Bill de Blasio; the program is part of ...

Chimere Stephens, the senior director of diversity and recruitment for the 900,000-student New York City public school system, has made it his mission to start as early as possible in enticing men of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — For more than two decades, North Carolina's Teaching Fellows program recruited more than 10,000 top-performing students to study teaching. To many, the program was a success and a ...

There’s long been a push to bring more teachers of color into classrooms, with policymakers and district leaders spearheading recruitment and retention initiatives. But one voice has been notably ...

Teacher retention is in crisis. Teachers of color leave the classroom at a higher rate than their white counterparts (19 percent vs. 15 percent, respectively), and students need to have more black and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County School District is looking to expand the diversity of its teachers with a new educational pathway designed to help men of color become teachers. The new ...

Darryl McKellar makes teaching look easy. Over 20 years in the classroom, the English teacher has mastered some of the job’s trickiest tasks. Today, he has a writing assignment for the 10th-graders in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — A local program is ...

Jeremy [1] was a queer Asian American teacher candidate who enrolled in a social justice-oriented teacher education program, compelled to create transformative spaces and occupy teaching as a ...

Darryl McKellar makes teaching look easy. Over 20 years in the classroom, the English teacher has mastered some of the job’s trickiest tasks. He has a writing assignment for the 10th graders in his ...