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Educators are taking new approaches to address the shortage. This summer, Indiana University offered a seminal course on men and education. In July, the Pennsylvania state legislature appropriated $1 million to create a statewide version of Call Me MISTER, a recruitment program that began at Clemson University aimed at attracting African-American men. The Borough of Manhattan Community College now runs a mentorship program to help male teachers-in-training find jobs. Roy Fox, an education specialist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is expanding MEET, or Men for Excellence in Elementary Teaching, a group that gathers on a monthly basis to discuss research and serve as a sounding board to deal with one another's male-specific teaching problems.

Bryan Nelson, the founder of Men Teach.org, says the absence of men in America's classrooms deprives kids. Children need good teachers, male and female, says Nelson. With support from the community, that's exactly what men like Josh Holt hope to be.

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Posted By: teachermath @ 03/16/2008 9:37:38 PM

Do not forget one of the biggest reasons why men are turned off from teaching: False accusations of child sexual abuse. If you help a kid who falls down, it might be seen as inappropriate touching and you could be charged of child sex abuse. If you do not do anything, you could be charged of CHILD NEGLECT. Damn if you do, damn if you dont...
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Posted By: DrWho82 @ 02/16/2008 8:56:28 PM

I as a teacher invested about $200,000 in my education and the community tries to starve me here. We hate ourselves as Americans, wish to see foreigners only in business and don't even give teachers a chance. I was persecuted by a greedy landlord and his interests for an apartment that was previously city owned.Any right minded intellectual seeking to preserve themselves and their ability to pay back loans would go overseas to teach where Americans are respected for being intellectuals. Thank god I was able to teach overseas for a few years. We are becoming a low class society filled with cynicism. When we mistreat a teacher we doom hundreds if not thousands of students to mistreatment. But intellect is no longer respected in this country.What a shame.
Other countries are not only looking at us as low class and non actualized, but we are seen as stupid and illiterate as well. I guess that the cynics in trying to degrade our teachers are degrading the country.
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Posted By: vicbud @ 01/26/2008 11:54:06 AM

JDubya299, I'll tell you what a doctor makes in Eastern Europe: about $300 / month. How do I know? I'm a Romanian Exchange teacher here. I make here, in SC, 10 (ten) times more than I did back home, where the cost of living is not that much cheaper than in the US. so, basically, you;re right. People here should stop bickering. they don't know what they have.
And let's get real waverly76, I think we as male teachers do live in a world that looks at us at least strangely... andand yes, as long as they make it a gender related problem, we should too