The Repercussions of the Black Teacher Shortage [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/18/1711:53 AM

Ashley McCall was teaching her third grade students about American voting rights last year when one of them asked a question she couldn’t answer: How do older people of color process the evolution of the right to vote?

McCall, a black teacher whose student body is mostly of color, asked her own grandparents to do a video conference with the class. They fielded students’ vibrant inquiries about having lived in the south during the civil rights era.

“It was awesome,” says McCall.

McCall says her identity has been crucial for her students at César E. Chávez Multicultural Academic Center on the south side of Chicago.

[For more of this story, written by Mimi Kirk, go to https://www.citylab.com/equity...her-shortage/536757/]

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