This article titled, 5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Non-Teaching Time, didn’t immediately catch my attention. However, as I skimmed the page, I noticed a photo of four identical salads sitting on a counter top. It was obviously a photo of food-prepping. I thought to myself, “I do that. I food prep.” I […]
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Tupelo???s thousands of public school students returned to classes Tuesday after the Christmas holiday break, but their teachers and other academic specialists were out of the starting gate on Monday, prepping for revised goals and assessing what changes need to be made for the second semester. The daylong teachers??? session showed a side of the […]
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By Frank Corder Clarion Ledger???s Geoff Pender wrote recently, ???There appears to be a political harmonic convergence ??? all the stars are lining up to allow??? the Mississippi Legislature to pass a bill aimed at making all school superintendents appointed rather than elected, a measure Pender says is ???long-needed, long-thwarted reform.??? On this point we […]
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By Matthew Lynch Mississippi is my home state, and an interesting state at that. Some time ago I wrote an article about what MLK would say about education in Mississippi, and I wrote it because of some startling realities about education in this state. I brought up that 24% of people in the state are […]
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School funding, pre-K and charter schools will be a few of the major education issues this upcoming legislative session. ??????????
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BY CHICO HARLAN The Washington Post ?? Editor’s note: A lonely road is the fourth in the series titled “A Region Left Behind: Lost Opportunity in the Deep South.” DREW, Miss. — The day of his high school graduation, like so many of the days before, began with chaos. Ruleville Central had pledged to lock […]
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Read More...All the political stars are aligned to allow passage of this long-needed reform. ??????????
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Published: Yesterday JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi lawmakers begin their four-year term, and their four-month 2016 session, on Tuesday with a wide range of issues to consider: ___ EDUCATION Legislators could try to revise the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a complex formula designed to give schools enough money to meet midlevel […]
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