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Diversity in the Classroom: How to Solve the Black Male Teacher Shortage

Tracy Jarrett

January 21, 2015 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: United States, South Carolina

America's teacher workforce is disproportionately white and female, with black males constituting only 2 percent of instructors. The Call Me MISTER initiative, based out of Clemson University, provides test prep, tuition assistance, academic counseling, and job placements to students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds - "The goal is to create life long career educators." Fifteen years after Call Me MISTER's founding, the number of black males teaching in South Carolina's public schools has doubled.

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