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\"i-heart-americorps\"<\/a>\u00a0In response to my\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a> piece yesterday, some folks have asked if I was ever in AmeriCorps.<\/p>\n

No, but I did have a cameo in one of their Mississippi programs. \u00a0 When I was investigating AmeriCorps in 1999, I traveled to the Mississippi Delta \u00a0Here’s the excerpt from Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

****<\/p>\n

In lieu of substantive achievements, AmeriCorps officials promised the moon. In 1998, AmeriCorps chief Harris Wofford bragged that AmeriCorps had set a goal for itself of \u201ceffective education and literacy for every child.\u201d This made as much sense as promising that AmeriCorps members would pave every pothole in the nation. In 1999, Clinton boasted that AmeriCorps members \u201chave… taught millions of children to read.\u201d One AmeriCorps official told me he doubted AmeriCorps had taught even a dozen children to read.<\/p>\n

I scooted over to the West Virginia Panhandle to check out one of AmeriCorps\u2019s premier literacy programs. The Energy Express program enrolled 600 college students each summer to teach reading to tens of thousands of kids from low-income families. The run-down school I visited in Ranson, West Virginia certainly provided a pleasant environment for youngsters. When children were not watching puppet shows or engaging in \u201cnon-competitive recreation,\u201d they sat in cardboard boxes or indoor tents and played with books. I asked several AmeriCorps members how much training they received to teach reading. Each one I asked looked at me as if I was crazy. One earnest AmeriCorps recruit named Brian explained: \u201cWe\u2019re not teaching them to read – we are just exposing them and getting them to like it. You just want them to think they\u2019re doing a good job\u201d when reading. (AmeriCorps members were careful not to correct children\u2019s grammar.) Talking on-site with the front-line members for five minutes was sufficient to obliterate AmeriCorps\u2019 bluster on Energy Express. I wondered if wildly exaggerating accomplishments was the key to rising in the bureaucracy….<\/p>\n

After delving into AmeriCorps grant applications and websites, Mississippi seemed to have the most farcical programs – as well as some of the nation\u2019s best BBQ. Mississippi\u2019s AmeriCorps website mentioned an orientation session in the Delta planned for the following week. Since AmeriCorps headquarters was already trying to scuttle my article, I contacted Mississippi AmeriCorps directly and asked if I could drop by.<\/p>\n

I flew into Jackson and, on a sultry Wednesday morning, took old Highway 61 – known as the \u201cBlues Highway\u201d – to Greenville. The crop duster planes languidly looping over oceans of white cotton fields were infinitely charming. (I never had any sympathy for boll weevils.)<\/p>\n

After talking my way out of a speeding ticket from a Mississippi state trooper, I arrived at the campus of Alcorn State University, where initiation festivities for a hundred new \u201cassistant teachers\u201d were in progress. I caught the final speakers of the morning – two poohbahs from the state capital. Their pompous wording and condescending delivery revealed that their self-concepts were as bloated as their job titles. No wonder much of the audience looked bleary-eyed. While the AmeriCorps reading crew I saw in West Virginia was all white, the Mississippi assistant teachers were all black. Most of the recruits were in their late teens or early twenties.<\/p>\n

I targeted this literacy program because its AmeriCorps grant application was chock full of spelling and grammar errors. Also, the assistant teachers were only required to read at an eighth-grade Mississippi level. Yet, AmeriCorps effectively paid them the equivalent of $50 an hour for tutoring. (AmeriCorps routinely sent dropouts back into schools to serve as mentors.)<\/p>\n

I was standing in the back of the hall, trying to look inconspicuous and succeeding as well as Br\u2019er Fox loitering outside a rabbit hole. Up strolled Judy, the executive director for Mississippi AmeriCorps, who I\u2019d spoken with by phone the prior week. She was 40ish and a bit scrawny but thrice as perky as your average civil servant. And she seemed sincerely devoted to making her program a success.<\/p>\n

After the usual pleasantries, she chirped: \u201cWould you mind giving a speech to the trainees on how to deal with the media?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUh… I\u2019m not much of a speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they\u2019d be thrilled to get advice from a reporter from our nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUh…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a ten-minute talk – that\u2019s all we\u2019re asking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hell\u2019s bells, there was no way to shirk her request.<\/p>\n

I explained that I could not talk off the cuff – but if Judy would toss me some questions, I\u2019d stretch out my replies.<\/p>\n

I knew not to begin by paraphrasing my favorite Shakespeare speech – announcing that I\u2019d come to bury AmeriCorps, not to praise it. I also reckoned it would be indelicate to invite attendees to \u201cdrop a dime\u201d on AmeriCorps.<\/p>\n

When Judy asked how members should deal with the press, I was tempted to say: \u201cJust look at what AmeriCorps headquarters does – and do the opposite.\u201d Actually, the recruits had little to worry about since the vast majority of media coverage was straight stenography. Most reporters printed whatever an AmeriCorps official told them.<\/p>\n

I managed to get a few laughs out of the audience. I silently hoped that AmeriCorps would not blight them for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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