{"id":15501,"date":"2009-10-13T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_few_teachers_are_black_men\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:00:09","slug":"ap_few_teachers_are_black_men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15501","title":{"rendered":"AP: Few teachers are black men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him \u201d\u201d an African-American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high school without ever being taught by a black man.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 2% of teachers nationwide are African-American men. But experts say that needs to change if educators expect to reduce minority achievement gaps and dropout rates.<\/p>\n<p>Macklin, now an 18-year-old college student, said he understands the circle that keeps many of his peers out of the classroom professionally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of males, they don&#8217;t like being in school because they can&#8217;t relate to their teacher,&#8221; said Macklin, of Pittsburgh. &#8220;So why would you want to work there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-10-09-black-male-teachers_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him \u201d\u201d an African-American male. Gregory Georges graduated from high school without ever being taught by a black man. Only about 2% of teachers nationwide are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15501\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,125,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-men","category-racerace-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}