Travis Bristol, Ph.D. in Education Policy, a guest in a Radio Boston Podcast. July 11, 2014
Dr. Travis Bristol, a 2014 graduate of the Education Policy program at Teachers College, is a guest in Radio Boston podcast "How to Increase the Number of Black Male Teachers in Boston Public Schools." He discusses the subject with Hayden Frederick-Clarke, a public school teacher in Charlestown.
Travis Bristol is also a former high school English teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator for secondary English with the Boston Teacher Residency program. After graduating from TC, he has received a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. He tweets @TJacksonBristol.
The majority of the 4,400 Boston Public Schools teachers are white, while 87 percent of students are not.
But, if you dig even deeper, it’s clear that black male teachers are a distinct minority within a minority. Just about 6 percent of BPS teachers are black men.
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Travis explores the topic further, while discussing his dissertation "Black Men of the Classroom. An Exploration of how the Organizational Conditions, Characteristics, and Dynamics in Schools Affect Black Male Teachers' Pathways into the Profession, Experiences, and Retention" in his blog: READ THE FULL BLOG ENTRY HERE.
Published Monday, Jul. 14, 2014