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There Are Strategies To Diversify The Teacher Workforce. What Are Yours?

December 4, 2020
by Jack Perry
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Education was a second career for me—but it wasn’t for lack of trying to make it the first. In college, I pursued a major in education for one semester, but became discouraged by the striking absence of Black men and women in...

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If You’re Serious About Teacher Diversity, Here Are a Couple Suggestions

February 4, 2020
by Jack Perry
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We all know that a teacher’s instructional skills matter for students. But a growing body of research shows that their background and life experience matter, too. This is especially important for students of color: while all...

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Three Ways to Diversify the Teaching Profession (If We Really Wanted To…)

May 9, 2019
by Dan Weisberg
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Recently, Dan Weisberg, CEO of TNTP, spoke at a hearing on teacher diversity hosted by the New Jersey Senate Education and Higher Education committees. He discussed the urgency of diversifying the teaching profession, and...

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If You Ask For My Blind Faith in Public Schools I’ll Ask What You’re Drinking

September 27, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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As a public school parent, I feel pressured to take a solemn oath of loyalty to free government schooling as if these schools are little temples of a high democratic order. I comply, mostly, uncomfortably, because whether I want...

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Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Who Are Learning in Our School

September 6, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
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As a new teacher and career changer, I owe so much to the coaching prowess of Mrs. Yvonne Savior. That’s right, even her name was Savior, and it was her guidance and support that helped me have the impact I sought with my...

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