Less than two percent; less than one in 50 of our teachers around the country today are African-American men. If you put African-American men and Hispanic men it's only about 3.5 percent of our teacher workforce. Far too few of our teachers look like our children.
Arne Duncan discusses the shortage of African-American teachers in the U.S. education system.
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