{"id":5064,"date":"2020-01-08T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:51:21","slug":"inspired-by-black-male-teachers-newark-native-returns-to-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/fr\/news\/inspired-by-black-male-teachers-newark-native-returns-to-pay-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspir\u00e9 par les enseignants noirs, un natif de Newark revient pour \"rendre service\"."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of two black male teachers at <a href=\"http:\/\/northstar.uncommonschools.org\/west-side-park-ms\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Star\u2019s West Side Park Middle School<\/a>, Raymond Blanks is determined to serve his community and \u201cpay it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black men like Raymond continue to be underrepresented in the teaching force, making up only 2 percent of teachers nationwide. Research shows that when students are taught by adults who look like them, their academic performance improves. However, even in Newark, black men make up only about 8 percent of the teaching force. Around half of the students are black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/posts\/newark\/2019\/11\/19\/inspired-by-his-own-black-male-teachers-this-newark-native-returned-to-his-hometown-to-pay-it-forward\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cb_bureau_newark\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In an interview with Chalkbeat<\/a>, Raymond talks about what it\u2019s like being one of the few black male educators in Newark, and how he shows his students the relevance of math in their lives (Raymond is a 6th grade math teacher).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/posts\/newark\/2019\/11\/19\/inspired-by-his-own-black-male-teachers-this-newark-native-returned-to-his-hometown-to-pay-it-forward\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cb_bureau_newark\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><small>PHOTO CREDIT: Devna Bose\/Chalkbeat<\/small><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Blanks, l'un des deux enseignants noirs de la West Side Park Middle School de North Star, est d\u00e9termin\u00e9 \u00e0 servir sa communaut\u00e9 et \u00e0 \"faire avancer les choses\". Les hommes noirs comme Raymond continuent d'\u00eatre sous-repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s dans le corps enseignant, puisqu'ils ne repr\u00e9sentent que 2 % des enseignants au niveau national. Les recherches montrent que lorsque les \u00e9l\u00e8ves sont ... <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/fr\/news\/inspired-by-black-male-teachers-newark-native-returns-to-pay-it-forward\/\">Suite<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newark","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inspired by Black Male Teachers, Newark Native Returns to \u2018Pay it Forward\u2019 - Uncommon Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/fr\/news\/inspired-by-black-male-teachers-newark-native-returns-to-pay-it-forward\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inspired by Black Male Teachers, Newark Native Returns to \u2018Pay it Forward\u2019 - Uncommon Schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As one of two black male teachers at North Star\u2019s West Side Park Middle School, Raymond Blanks is determined to serve his community and \u201cpay it forward.\u201d Black men like Raymond continue to be underrepresented in the teaching force, making up only 2 percent of teachers nationwide. 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