Chimere Stephens, the senior director of diversity and recruitment for the 900,000-student New York City public school system, has made it his mission to start as early as possible in enticing men of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For faculty of color to accept a job at an isolated college often means a sort of social suicide, writes Ulises Ali Mejias, who offers a possible solution. I recently sat down to participate in a ...