Ben Guest’s Blog Vox 2008-05-12T04:04:40Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22523f3adf219/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... Gladwell tag:vox.com,2008-05-11:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf704510002 2008-05-12T17:12:58Z 2008-05-12T04:04:40Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. He has a great ability to assimilate and explain complex data. I've been reading through some of his past New Yorker articles. Here are three of my favorites, with quotes: The Taboo of Race and...

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]]> Links tag:vox.com,2008-05-11:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf70fe70003 2008-05-11T17:19:50Z 2008-05-12T13:54:10Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Three links about teaching in America: High School teacher fired after these photos appeared online. Yet more evidence of America's insane prudishness... How do you, as a teacher, feel about cell phones in school? Would you feel differently ...

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]]> Admissions tag:vox.com,2008-05-10:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f866b30005 2008-05-10T21:02:07Z 2008-05-10T21:02:07Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Amherst College has record number of applicants: In what many call the most grueling college admissions year ever, Amherst College finally sent out 1,096 letters of admittance to the class of 2012. The College accepted 14.2 percent of all first-...

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]]> Prison tag:vox.com,2008-05-09:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48d1517be0001 2008-05-09T14:34:14Z 2008-05-09T14:34:14Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom An Amherst student and a Hampshire County Correctional Facility inmate have a Boston Globe op-ed: Yes, going to prison necessarily entails the loss of liberty. But the right to vote is in many ways more important than the right to walk freely d...

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]]> Burgandy tag:vox.com,2008-05-08:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf618c60002 2008-05-08T17:42:03Z 2008-05-08T17:42:03Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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]]> Creationist tag:vox.com,2008-05-08:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f7ad910005 2008-05-08T14:12:10Z 2008-05-08T14:12:10Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Freakonomics Q and A with Frans De Waal: Q: Does religiously motivated rejection of evolution (e.g. creationism) ever get in your way when working? A: I don’t experience this kind of resistance in science, in which evolutionary theory is obviou...

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]]> Point tag:vox.com,2008-05-08:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f7a8e80005 2008-05-08T12:55:11Z 2008-05-08T12:55:11Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Fiel, as usual, on point: First off, it's illogical to suggest that these voters who may prefer her over Obama will not vote for Obama if he's the Democratic nominee. Why is it that Hillary can win 60% of the white working class vote, and we a...

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]]> Intern tag:vox.com,2008-05-07:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f72d930004 2008-05-07T12:52:07Z 2008-05-07T03:52:33Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Part Two of the MTC 2007 Summer Intern film. Watch Part One here.

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]]> Deck tag:vox.com,2008-05-06:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf551980003 2008-05-06T12:06:52Z 2008-05-06T17:32:22Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Zaza don't want none...

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]]> MTC Monthly Update tag:vox.com,2008-05-05:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f6c3460005 2008-05-05T17:08:53Z 2008-05-05T17:08:53Z Ben Guest http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom News Update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Mississippi Teacher Corps Class of 2006 is finished (MTC designates each class by the year entered). The '06ers presented their final portfolios last month and will graduate with a...

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