Effective Strategies for Recruiting African American Males into Teacher Education Programs

<p>In today’s society, the teaching workforce should be more diverse. However, it still consists of majority white females. From a survey reported by Education Week in 2017-2018, the teaching workforce consisted of 79.2% white teachers. The same data reported that the teaching workforce consists of 7% African-Americans (Will, 2020). From that 7% of African-Americans, African-American males consists of 2% of the teaching workforce (Bell, 2017). Some school districts are seeking to attract more minority teachers to reflect their student demographics. In 2018, data reported from statista.com shows the following student demographics in K-12 public schools across the U.S.: 47% White, 15.1% African-American, and 27.2% Hispanic (statista.com, 2018). In order to diversify the teaching workforce to reflect the student demographics, some underlying issues need to be addressed. </p> <p>Before the 1954 Brown Decision, the teacher workforce consisted of more than 30 % African-American males. Today according to numerous research articles, the teacher workforce consists of 2% African-American males (Bell, 2017). The question I ask myself as a researcher is ”What happened to the African-American male teacher pipeline?” I seek to explore the factors contributing to the decline in African-American male teachers from 1954 to the present. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2021

Author dc:creator

• Snodgrass, Fredrick Wellington

• African American
• Education
• Males
• Recruitment
• Teacher
• African American Studies
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Race and Ethnicity

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2021 Fredrick Wellington Snodgrass

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/760

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1758