Ben Guest’s Blog Vox 2008-06-29T20:51:43Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c22523f3adf219/tags/mississippi+teacher+corps/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... L and M's tag:vox.com,2008-06-28:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fad694a5be0005 2008-06-28T05:15:06Z 2008-06-29T20:51:43Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lunch

Lunch with some of the interns at L and M's, which is closing its doors Sunday (*tear* as last summer's intern, Lauryn, would say). The discussion was about Philip's blog post (which has sparked some good comments online):

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]]> Video tag:vox.com,2008-06-24:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fae8c5e19d000b 2008-06-24T14:46:34Z 2008-06-24T14:46:34Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Here is the article with video: "The children in the Mississippi Delta have been neglected for well over 200 years when it comes to public education," Mullins says. "Their suffering is due to the devastating effects that poverty has on children,...

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]]> Article tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fad6940e490004 2008-06-23T13:33:52Z 2008-06-23T13:33:52Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Article about the Mississippi Teacher Corps: After earning a degree in African-American studies from Harvard, Amutah joined the Mississippi Teacher Corps based at the University of Mississippi. Since its creation in 1989, MTC has placed nearly 5...

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A Delta Education

Sandra Knispel, a journalist for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, recently won the Mississippi AP Award for Best Documentary (Radio) for the following piece, featuring two Mississippi Teacher Corps teachers, Ashley Johnson and Elizabeth Savage:

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]]> Amani tag:vox.com,2008-06-12:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fa967dbb290002 2008-06-12T19:19:29Z 2008-06-12T19:28:52Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Amani Floyd, Mississippi Teacher Corps Class of 2008, gives the best answer ever for why she joined the Teacher Corps:

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]]> 2008 Summer Interns tag:vox.com,2008-06-09:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fad68ff9070004 2008-06-09T22:13:43Z 2008-06-09T22:13:43Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Interns

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MCT2. 015

From Ruth Kuhnau, Class of 2005, as her students were preparing to take the MTC 2 (a state test):

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]]> Meet the new blog, same as the old blog... tag:vox.com,2008-06-09:asset-6a00c22523f3adf21900fad68ecbfe0005 2008-06-09T00:37:01Z 2008-06-09T02:31:11Z Mississippi Teacher Corps http://mtc.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom This blog started mostly as reflections on the Mississippi Teacher Corps, of which I am an alumnus, and for which I currently serve as the Program Manager. Over the past year or so I've spent more time writing about politics, religion, The Wire, ...

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