The academic achievement of Black boys in the U.S. has been declining, and Black male mentorship can positively change these outcomes. Schools have tried many interventions to help Black boys receive the academic, social, and emotional support they need to close the performance gap. Some case studies have proven that Black male mentorship works.…

The United States public school system continues to be more diverse year after year. Even though the Black student population has increased significantly, the number of Black teachers has not. Although the achievement gap between Black students and non-Black students has decreased, there is still a concern about the educational outcomes of Black…

Drawing from the framework of "populational reasoning," this paper explores the implicit and explicit discourses within recruitment calls for Black male teachers. "Populational reasoning" helps to construct meaning about how students learn and the socio-psychological attributes that inform school achievement. In this sense, we…

One of the problems school districts face is the shortage of teachers, but more severely the shortage of African-American male teachers. The recruitment of minority male teachers is an important prerequisite for teachers to equal their students in diversity; further, social justice demands the presence of minority men in the teaching profession to…

In England, Scotland and other countries, policy-makers often depict the targeted recruitment of men to the teaching profession as a panacea for male underachievement and disaffection from school. It is commonly assumed that the gender gap in achievement stems from the dearth of male role models in teaching, especially at primary level. Giving…

Growing concerns about the experience and achievement of Black pupils (especially Black males) underpin calls for more Black people to serve as teacher and lay mentor role models in schools. Calls for increased numbers of Black teacher role models assume firstly, that Black teachers regard themselves as role models and want to perform such a role…

Boys' underachievement has to some extent been attributed to the feminisation of the teaching profession. The authors understand the concept of feminisation to mean in the first instance an increase in the number of women teachers in primary schools as a proportion of the total work force. The evidence the authors have for this pragmatic…