There’s long been a push to bring more teachers of color into classrooms, with policymakers and district leaders spearheading recruitment and retention initiatives. But one voice has been notably ...

Efforts are underway to recruit more teachers of color, and one such successful initiative is in New York. NYC Men Teach was started two years ago under Mayor Bill de Blasio; the program is part of ...

Teacher retention is in crisis. Teachers of color leave the classroom at a higher rate than their white counterparts (19 percent vs. 15 percent, respectively), and students need to have more black and ...

Say you’re a principal, and you’ve been putting a high priority on hiring teachers of color. You recognize the importance of a diverse staff, and you’re feeling pretty good because you’re making ...

“Start sharing. Don’t be shy,” the facilitator said at the start a training last week for Asian, black, and Hispanic men hoping to teach in the New York City school system. He’d asked them to name a ...

Fabian Flores wants to be a third grade teacher because of a study he read. The research, out of Johns Hopkins University, found that for some students of color, having a single teacher who looked ...

Darryl McKellar makes teaching look easy. Over 20 years in the classroom, the English teacher has mastered some of the job’s trickiest tasks. He has a writing assignment for the 10th graders in his ...

Aliya Cantanch-Bradley is the principal of the Mary McLeod Bethune School in Philadelphia. For Aliya Cantanch-Bradley, the fight for diversity and inclusion has been her life’s work. As a teenager, ...

I recently sat down to participate in a meeting about diversity at the small and remote state college where I teach. Like all other administrative gatherings at my institution these days, the meeting ...