According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2014), the overall percentage of male teachers dropped from 29.5 percent during the 1987-1988 school year to a low of 23.7 percent during the 2011-2012 school year. While the overall number of teachers increased from 2.3 million in 1987 to 3.4 million in 2011, the number of male teachers slightly increased from 685,000 to 802,000. Interestingly, the percentage of science teachers increased from the low 4.9 percent of the teachers in...
