The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins

A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

A journalist follows a diverse group of public school teachers through a school year, offering intimate portraits of their daily struggles and small victories as they navigate overcrowded classrooms, low pay, bureaucratic demands, high-stakes testing, and students’ social and academic needs; the book exposes systemic failures that erode morale while highlighting teachers’ dedication, creativity, and the human cost of education policy, and urges greater support and structural reform to sustain the profession.

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