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Even though more than half of the state's teachers are men, they make up just over 10 percent of educators at the elementary school level. Nationwide, male teachers made up 14.3 percent of all ...

The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States. Among elementary school teachers, 89 percent are women, and in kindergarten, that number is almost 97 percent. Many ...

Black male educators made up 1.3% of all K-12 teachers in 2020-2021 school year. When educator Curtis L. Lewis noticed he was the only Black, male teacher in a district of 20 elementary schools, he ...

DECATUR - Brent Damery's enthusiasm is infectious. At South Shores School, while students play a relay-style basketball game, Damery, 22, is yelling encouragement to teammates, scrambling to his feet ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, ...

It’s just after lunchtime at Smyrna High School and seven seniors, all young men, are sitting around a table in an otherwise empty classroom, save for their teacher, Genny Willis. The students aren’t ...

For 17-year-old Warren Coates, a teacher who’s taken the time to build a relationship with him is highly motivating. “When there’s a teacher that I have a relationship with, I—100 percent—try harder ...

The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States. Among elementary school teachers, 89 percent are women, and in kindergarten, that number is almost 97 percent. Many ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, ...