Introduction

Finding a male teacher in an American classroom is hard. Finding a black male teacher is even harder. Drew Angerer for The New York Times Finding a male teacher in an American classroom is hard. Finding a black male teacher is even harder.

The teaching profession is dominated by women: Three-quarters of all teachers in kindergarten through high school are female, and in elementary and middle schools, women account for more than 80 percent of the educators.



What’s more, more than 80 percent of America’s teachers are white, even though minority students are expected to outnumber white students in public schools for the first time this year.



How can the teaching profession become more diverse in terms of gender and race or ethnicity?