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Jones Unger: My Father Didn鈥檛 Want Me to Be a Teacher. I Defied Him 鈥� and It Was the Best Decision I Ever Made

By Kristen Jones Unger

November 19, 2018

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Kristen Jones Unger teaches at KIPP Rise Academy charter school in Newark.

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