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

LONDON — A BBC documentary has revealed there are just 26 Black teachers in Bristol’s secondary schools, despite it being one of the UK’s most diverse cities. The documentary ‘Inside Out West’ found that just 1.9 percent of the city’s over 1,300 teachers were from Black backgrounds despite making up six percent of the population, raising concerns over school recruitment procedures. The shortage of Black teachers is nonetheless a national issue. According to official governme