At Martin Luther King Elementary School ... trend may be changing. Principal Machelle Matthews has made a conscious effort to recruit and retain black male teachers. Matthews, teachers say, ...

Often, particularly in urban schools and districts, someone asks: “Where are the black male teachers ... to a lack of them in school leadership roles, such as principal and assistant principal.

In America’s most extensive public school ... Black male teachers––and teachers in general––are often tasked with challenges outside of their job description and above their pay grade.

“I felt like I was needed in that space,” says Grant, now an 8th-grade science ... teachers were Black men in the 2020-21 school year, according to the National Teacher and Principal Survey.

When John Wesley Manning came to Knoxville to be principal of Austin High School on South Central Street in 1881 at the age of 24, he was one of the best educated Black men in the United States.

A little over 1% of educators in the nation are Black men ... Seventh and eighth-grade science teacher William Childers is the only Black man teaching at Riverside Middle School in Grand Rapids ...

Ben Franklin High School's principal, Kendall McManus-Thomas, becomes the school's first Black male principal. "I take it with pride knowing I represent so many amazing educators, my family and ...

A defiant Florida principal ... School chief Donelle Evensen stepped down from her post last week after increasing calls for her removal. According to reports, fourth- and fifth-grade black ...