Quick Take: The Kids Are Struggling

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Matt Dolan, the founder and CEO of the Global Teaching Project, which provides promising high school students in rural and underserved areas access to advanced courses they need to achieve their full potential. The pair discuss the challenges students face in rural America, how the Global Teaching Project began and how to best support students in their educations.

This is an excerpt from the episode "Setting Students Up for Success: With Matt Dolan."

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0:00.0	Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the
0:12.7	Michael Steel Podcast.
0:14.4	Check out what's going on right now.
0:17.1	Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steel Podcast.
0:20.0	We are talking education.
0:21.8	We're talking about AP courses for poor students, particularly poor students of color in the state
0:32.0	of Mississippi through a program founded by Matt Dolan, the global teaching project.
0:37.9	So you're taking kids in a school district that are otherwise not just financially poor
0:48.0	but educationally poor as well.
0:51.0	You're bringing in the global teaching project to work with these students.
0:58.2	What was the initial resistance to this idea?
1:02.9	They hear you got this Yankee coming in and go and tell us how to educate our kids,
1:13.6	kind of deal.
1:14.9	But you're looking around and you're seeing, well, your kids aren't necessarily getting
1:18.8	access to the best education possible.
1:21.1	We have some tools to help.
1:22.8	What was that conversation like initially?
1:25.3	What was to be like now?
1:28.0	It was remarkably simple.
1:32.8	I am mindful of the fact that my principal contact initially there still refers to me as
1:39.5	his favorite Yankee lawyer.
1:44.7	I still don't quite know how to take that.
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