Ben Guest’s Blog Vox 2007-04-25T15:46:10Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22523f3adf219/2005/11/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... Civil Rights II tag:vox.com,2007-04-25:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900cd9724b6d94cd5 2005-11-18T08:26:00Z 2007-04-25T15:46:10Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom In his new book, "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America," Jonathan Kozol writes about his decision to become a teacher. Here is the first paragraph: "I began to work among schoolchildren more than 40 years ago...

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]]> Civil Rights tag:vox.com,2007-04-25:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e6696b0be2b 2005-11-18T08:03:00Z 2007-04-25T15:46:13Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Educational inequity is the civil rights issue of this generation. The schools that we (the Mississippi Teacher Corps) go into are high-need and almost completely African-American. They are also among the poorest districts in the poorest state in ...

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