Professor Calls For More Male K-12 Teachers

In an op-ed for USA Today (2/25), Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a professor of law at the University of Tennessee, writes that one reason to back alternatives to public schools is that it "seems that teachers - overwhelmingly female - just might be prejudiced against boys and it's hurting their grades. Stereotyped as 'naughty,' boys quickly learn that they are thought of as dumber and more trouble than girls. And that has consequences." Reynolds says this is because teachers in K-12 are "overwhelmingly female," and encourages efforts to hire more male teachers.