More Black men are needed in the classroom, diversity advocates say
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 19, 2023
(CNN) Jamaal Grant was studying biology at Colby College in Maine when a friend asked if he'd be interested in teaching after graduation.
Grant had planned to go to graduate school and build a career in science, but in need of a job, decided to teach science at a charter school in Boston.
Within two years of teaching, he realized he had met his calling. His students, most of them . . .