
Here’s why black teachers are so important to education and to our children‘Through Our Eyes....
Teachers of color bring benefits to classrooms beyond content knowledge and pedagogy.” This is what a recent study from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement, claims. And it has data to back it up. Teachers of color represent only 18 percent of the teaching population in the United States, and black teachers are 7 percent of the teaching population, according to Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflection Fro