America’s teachers are overwhelmingly white and female, despite the fact that America’s students are mostly people ... are especially high for Black men. That’s because schools can be ...

In contrast, the overall graduation rate for black male students in New York City was 58 percent in 2014. School ... on how to meet and treat girls, getting good grades and what it means to be a man ...

New York City, which has the nation’s largest public school system ... that prevent black, Latino and Asian men from choosing teaching as a career, he said. Nationally, fewer people overall ...

For these students, the absence of Black male role models is more than a gap is more than a gap; it’s a crisis. And it hits home particularly hard as a Black male educator in New York.

Syracuse, N.Y. — When 100 Black Men ... school -- called the Central New York Academy -- was born shortly after that trip. It is not boys only, but targets children from Black and Hispanic high ...

In 2012, I began my teaching career as a Black male educator at Greenwood High School through the Teach for America program. At the time, more than 6 percent of the country’s teachers were Black ...