Throughout history, teachers have endured extraordinary hardship for the sake of their students. Janina Suchodolska, a Polish educator during the Nazi occupation, ran underground schools and hid Jewish children. She was captured, tortured, and released only after parents bribed officials on her behalf. While I don’t want to compare modern teaching to the horrors of […]
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L.A. Gabay is an educator, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on the intersections of youth culture, education, and incarceration. His book, I Hope I Don’t See You Tomorrow (2016), explores education inside juvenile detention. He teaches English at the Judith S. Kaye Transfer High School in Manhattan, and his writing has appeared in Slam Magazine, Bleacher Report, iPondr, Cineaste, and others. In 2016, The New York Times named him a “New Yorker of the Year.”