Word: menteach
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...just 9% of teachers in elementary and middle schools are men, down from 18% in 1981. The absence of male role models in the classroom concerns educators, parents and policymakers. "When men teach children, people think they couldn't make it in another industry," says Bryan Nelson, director of MenTeach, an advocacy group. That's changing with recruitment programs like Call Me Mister in South Carolina, which focuses on putting young black men at the chalkboard...
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