Education As A Justice Issue pt. 2
As I stated in my last post in this thread, I’m doing research on education as a justice issue (in particular the education of young black men). Since I didn’t have the statistic at the time I didn’t want to speculate, but now I have it so I thought I would share.
Currently, African American students constitute approximately 20% of the public school population, while African American male teachers constitute 1% of the teaching force.
Sobering thought. More on the rest of the research later.
Is that because school systems don’t hire African American male teachers, or because African American males don’t become teachers?