May 19, 2019
‘Our Towns’ in ‘The Atlantic’
In this post, Deb reports on a response she received to her earlier report about the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS), challenging the idea that a school like MSMS — a public high school that chooses its students from around the state — can meaningfully claim to be “teaching students to think.”
Read the letter, from Georgia Gwinnett College professor Paul Camp, and MSMS English teacher Thomas Easterling’s response here.