An Oral History Project Aims to Make it Trendy to Celebrate Teachers
Celebrating teachers is having a well-deserved moment. This summer we saw Matt Damon expose the hypocrisyof anti-teacher sentiment at a national rally and a social media campaign to publicly thank teachers kicked off last week. Now StoryCorps, the national nonprofit oral history project, which has recorded the experiences of over 70,000 people, has launched the National Teachers Initiative, an effort to celebrate "the brilliant and courageous work of public school teachers across the country."
Throughout this academic year, the organization plans to interview a diverse sampling of 625 teachers in 10