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Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, Opinion, The South

How will my Mississippi Delta students succeed in college if they can’t understand what they read?

Ninety-eight percent of the people who work in my occupation are different than me: I fall in the less than 2 percent of teachers who are black males. I am from Mississippi, a state perpetually plagued by its scholastic underperformance, where I recently graduated from the University of Mississippi and was accepted into Teach For […]