Just seven per cent of America's public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year although Black students make up 15 per cent of the student population. A new program in South Carolina is aiming to change that.
Tyler Wright teaches 4th grade math at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, S.C., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. America's teacher workforce has long been whiter than its student body. In South Carolina, Charleston County aims to increase the number of Black male teachers in the classroom — 60 more in the next three years.
Their absence in classrooms is deeply felt, especially in states like South Carolina, where almost a fifth of students are Black and Black males account for less than three per cent of teachers. "The issue starts fairly young," said Eric Duncan, a member of the policy team at the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization. "They get negative impressions of school because they are traditionally overdisciplined or misidentified in terms of behavior challenges, when they may have some other issues or challenges that should be addressed in a more culturally proficient way.
CCSD decided to focus on recruiting elementary teachers because it's typically difficult to fill those positions with men, and research shows that if Black students have a teacher of color in elementary school, they're less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider college. For Black boys of low-income backgrounds, those effects are even greater.
The South Carolina districts that have seen the greatest increase in Black male teachers in recent years are Charleston, York 3, Richland 1 and Aiken, with a net total of almost 80 new hires from 2017 to 2021. However, they still have a small share of Black male teachers overall.
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