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Lessons from the Southern Surge with Karen Vaites

Lessons from the Southern Surge with Karen Vaites

Update: 2025-12-24
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Karen Vaites is well-known as a literacy advocate. In this episode we discuss the Southern Surge, the Mississippi Miracle, and the Louisiana and Tennessee increases (sorry no alliterative descriptors) in literacy scores.


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Lessons from the Southern Surge with Karen Vaites

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