Author: Joyeeta Banerjee

Joyeeta Banerjee in her classroom in India. She is an English teacher from Bankura, a district in a rural area of West Bengal, India. For 24 years she has taught first-generation learners — children who speak Bengali or Santali at home. Anupam Gangopadhyay hide caption toggle caption Anupam Gangopadhyay When the letter from the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program arrived, it felt as though the sky had opened. I was going to America for four months to study how language learning could become more equitable. But almost instantly the joy was clouded by two questions from those around me:…