From: Lynn M. Miller - LMA, LLC <lynnmiller@lmallc.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Subject: BLOG POST: U.S. Secretary of Education Announces the TEACH Campaign
To: SNG ARTICLES <lmallc4sng@gmail.com>
A great teacher will change the course of a student's life. A great teacher will light a lifelong curiosity within a student – for math, for science, for history and the arts. A great teacher will engender a sense of self-discipline and self-worth in a student. A great teacher will change the world.
As we know, talent matters tremendously in the classroom—and that is why recruiting and training a new generation of great teachers is essential to closing the achievement gap. Ambrose Caliver, the first African-American research specialist hired by the U.S. Office of Education, captured that urgency in a single sentence 75 years ago when he wrote: "In the hands of the Negro teachers rests the destiny of the race."
Every day, African-American teachers are doing extraordinary work in helping to close the achievement gap. Yet we also know that children of color have too few teachers of color. Nationwide, more than 35 percent of public school students are black or Hispanic, but less than 15 percent of our teachers are black or Latino. It is especially troubling that less than two percent of our nation's 3.2 million teachers are African-American males. On average, roughly 200,000 new teachers are hired a year in America—and just 4,500 of them are black males. It is not good for any of our country's children that only 1 in 50 teachers is a black man.
In the next few years, though, up to a quarter of the teaching workforce will leave the profession; most are retiring baby boomers. Later TODAY at 2pm (ET), U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will announce the TEACH Campaign during a special live broadcast on MSNBC called “Education Nation Summit. There he will deliver a special address, “Teach for Tomorrow: A Reverse Commencement,” which will be broadcast live on MSNBC and streamed online.
The TEACH campaign is an initiative designed to raise awareness of the teaching profession and get a new generation of teachers to join the ones who are already making a difference in the classroom. TEACH.gov – a revolutionary new website dedicated to providing information, testimonials, and resources for students and prospective teachers – including a new interactive “path to teaching” tool designed to help individuals chart their course to becoming a teacher will also be launched today.
Please Join us as we begin the TEACH campaign:
· Visit our website: TEACH.gov
· Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/teachgov
· Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/teachgov
· Share our YouTube videos: youtube.com/teachgov
· Share your initiatives to train and recruit minority teachers. Email kimberly.watkins-foote@ed.gov if you have an initiative you would like to share.
· Download one of the following files to your computer and upload the button of your choice to your website.
Most important, please share this message with your members or member organizations and encourage them to join in this movement. In the next ten years, we will need as many as 1,800,000 new teachers. Only with the support of many will we succeed.
Lynn M. Miller, LMA, LLC
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