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QUOTED RECENTLY “The very reason men are hired—because they’re male—is often the liability. If they’re ‘too male,’ then the idea is they don’t know how to work with little children or they’re not gentle enough.” Richard Ingersoll, professor of education and sociology in the GSE, responding to the U.S. Department of Educationís finding that the percentage of male teachers is at a 40-year low. (The Boston Globe, Aug. 28, 205)
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