Ben Guest’s Blog Vox 2008-03-01T00:30:07Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22523f3adf219/2008/02/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... B'More's Finest... tag:vox.com,2008-03-01:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdff9480003 2008-03-01T00:30:07Z 2008-03-01T00:30:07Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Looks like the C's are going to pick-up Sam Cassell, native of Baltimore, MD. Good addition to the team...

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]]> Old School Disco tag:vox.com,2008-02-29:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdfa0520002 2008-02-29T01:21:04Z 2008-02-29T03:27:48Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Disco

"Old School Disco" with a basketball court on one side. Photo was taken in 2003, outside of Belzoni, MS.

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Bryant's Store in Money, MS

This is all that remains of Bryant's Store in Money, MS. Fourteen-year-old African-American Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, for saying "Bye, baby" to Carolyn Bryant as he left this store in 1955. Bryant, a white woman whose h...

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Memorial Hill

Here is another photo of the Fairest College of Them All, Memorial Hill, taken in the spring of 2007.

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Drew House

I lived in Drew House sophomore year at Amherst College. I took this photo in the spring of 2007.

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]]> Outside Issues tag:vox.com,2008-02-26:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398e0506e0005 2008-02-26T01:24:29Z 2008-02-26T01:44:35Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Posts on attrition here and here. Posts on low pay, classroom management, intensity, and administration. Outside issues, as a reason for leaving the teaching profession, can include anything from having to take care of an ill family member to m...

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]]> Oscar Redux tag:vox.com,2008-02-25:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cfd1d830001 2008-02-25T04:57:06Z 2008-02-25T05:06:58Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Batted six for eight on the Oscar picks...

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]]> Links of the Week tag:vox.com,2008-02-24:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cfcfb140001 2008-02-24T19:42:26Z 2008-02-24T19:42:26Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Give Kucinich his due. Intense, well-written account of the soldiers of Battle Company, waging a losing fight with insurgents in Afghanistan. And with the pressures of five and six tours in combat: As Giunta said, “The richest, most-trained a...

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]]> Administration tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398df8f940004 2008-02-23T20:39:18Z 2008-02-24T08:17:14Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

What They Don't Tell You in Schools of Education about School Administration

Posts on attrition here and here. And here are the posts on low pay, classroom management, and intensity. After "burnout," dealing with difficult/disorganized/unsupportive administration is the factor most often cited by our teachers as to why t...

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]]> Cheating Redux tag:vox.com,2008-02-22:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cddb1760002 2008-02-22T23:34:56Z 2008-02-22T23:34:56Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics fame, has a Q and A with the readers of his blog. Here is one part: Q: The “cheating teacher” analysis in Freakonomics was an elegant piece of work. Has it been used outside the original sample space, and applied t...

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