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 ...

Efforts are underway to recruit more teachers of color, and one such successful initiative is in New York. NYC Men Teach was started two years ago under Mayor Bill de Blasio; the program is part of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — For more than two decades, North Carolina's Teaching Fellows program recruited more than 10,000 top-performing students to study teaching. To many, the program was a success and a ...

Maurice DuBois is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in New York, the flagship evening broadcast on CBS News. He brings more than three decades of experience to ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Allyson Watson came on board July 1 as dean of Florida A&M University’s College of Education, she brought more than a vision for moving the program forward. Watson previously served as dean of ...

Students of color seldom see teachers who look like them. This is in large part because many aspiring teachers of color are pushed out of the profession before they have a chance to start. It’s not ...

Aliya Cantanch-Bradley is the principal of the Mary McLeod Bethune School in Philadelphia. For Aliya Cantanch-Bradley, the fight for diversity and inclusion has been her life’s work. As a teenager, ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series about diversity in the teaching profession. Fabian Flores wants to be a third-grade teacher because of a study he read. It found that for ...