Gail Bichler, design director: “Teachers today are facing pressure from all angles, whether it is standardized test scores, underfunding or dealing with the horrors of school shootings. The cover of our education issue takes visual inspiration from old protest posters and very directly addresses just how hard a task teaching has become.”

Inside the process for creating this cover
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/magazine/behind-the-cover-the-education-issue.html