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“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.
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 ...
"Although he was my teacher in seventh grade ... % of public school teachers identified as Black men in the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) 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.
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.
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 ...
Seattle Public Schools superintendent Brent Jones told the School Board ... scores for third-grade reading and seventh-grade math. The goal is for 70% of seventh-grade Black male students to ...
That’s something Principal Keisha Wilkins thinks will ... “We have students that have gone their entire school career [from kindergarten through 8th grade] and never had a Black male teacher,” Wilkins ...