The National Memorial to Fallen Educators is a sorrowful sidebar to the story told by the National Teachers Hall of Fame (NTHF), which built it. The hall of fame celebrates exceptional teachers, annually honoring five prekindergarten-grade 12 educators with at least 20 years of teaching experience. In tragic contrast, the memorial lists the names of public and private school teachers, administrators, and staff who lost their lives while working in the United States. The black granite memorial was developed by Carol Strickland, then the NTHF executive director, after the murder…
