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Of the Meaning of Progress

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Du Bois's own two summers teaching in rural Tennessee, and what happened, over the following decade, to the students he taught — a personal measure of what progress actually costs and delivers.

Du Bois as a young rural schoolteacherJosie and the Dowell familyThe meaning of 'progress' for a family, not a statisticReturn a decade later

7 sections · ~17 min read