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nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:15:06 -0700

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):

Lunch

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Video

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:46:34 -0700

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, and studies show that children from high-poverty environments tend to start the learning process well behind their peers from middle-class backgrounds. This has been the case in several areas of Mississippi, but it's especially pronounced in the Delta."

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Article

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:33:52 -0700

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 500 educators in the state's most impoverished schools. Most of them are peppered across the flat, fertile plains of the Delta, where half of all black children are born into poverty, and generations have grown up facing economic hardships and despair.

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A Delta Education

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:14:42 -0700

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:

A Delta Education

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Amani

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:19:29 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:13:43 -0700

Interns

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MCT

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:20:13 -0700

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

MCT2. 015

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Meet the new blog, same as the old blog...

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:37:01 -0700

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, the Boston Celtics, the Peace Corps, and other personal topics that are not really appropriate as an official representation of the Mississippi Teacher Corps. So I've reactivated my personal blog, First Take, here (I stopped posting on First Take last year when I created this blog). I've also set to "Viewable by Friends" on this Vox blog any posts that I feel would reflect a personal political or ideological viewpoint. This blog will continue as a somewhat official representation of the Teacher Corps, while my reactivated personal blog will host all of my posts on topics personal, political, and other.

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First-Years (all of them this time...)

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:29:41 -0700

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First-Years

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:56:59 -0700

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