Teaching Black Teens to Write the Books They Read [theatlantic.com]
By Melinda D. Anderson, The Atlantic, September 1, 2020 Laquisha hall has spent 17 years educating young Black minds in Baltimore—the past five years at Carver Vocational-Technical High School—and as a teacher she always did whatever she could to foster a love of reading, writing, and books. Frustrated by the district’s English curriculum, she raised $500 to $600 a year to stock her in-class library with young-adult literature tackling race, culture, and identity. Spurning reading logs, she...