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CNN  — Maudy Adkinson Johnson remembers walking across cow fields and busy roads as a child to get to her one-room schoolhouse in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was the 1950s, and Johnson said the Lee-Buckner School was teaching her how to read, write and do math problems. She was also making friends with other Black children.
When Melvin Middleton Jr. started his first year teaching in the late 1990s, he discovered he was the only classroom teacher who was a man of color at his elementary school. Middleton said he also faced stereotypes in the Florida school where he taught second and third graders, including that, as a Black man . […]
For most of his 20-year teaching career, Nathan Jackson ran his classes the way he was taught to: with himself standing at the front of the room while students sat in the back, required to listen and do what they’re told. But a few years ago, after participating in a leadership training with the Black […]
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