Why Kids of Color Don’t Need ‘White Hero’ Teachers
It’s a familiar trope, made popular in movies and best-selling memoirs: the idealistic, often white, occasionally affluent, burned-out young teacher who heroically struggles to educate “unteachable” black or Latino students in a failing urban public school. And it drives Christopher Emdin, an African American educator who spent years teaching math and science in just such a school, to distraction.
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