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    Weekly roundup: Yes, we can read… and do math

    For all of the standardized testing in schools these days, there’s only one exam that measures student achievement across the entire country. It’s the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is actually a set of exams periodically given to representative samples of students in all 50 states and D.C....

    By Jake McGraw
    November 1, 2019
  • Editor's Blog

    Love it or leave it?

    A state representative's abrasive email sheds light on Mississippi's self-destructive mentality.

    By Jake McGraw
    March 18, 2016
  • Commentary

    Commentary: How to make $60,000 when schools are underfunded

    Become a lawyer and represent the Legislature when it evades its responsibility to adequately support public schools.

    By Jake McGraw
    September 8, 2015
  • Editor's Blog

    Watch Jon Stewart’s best segments about Mississippi

    Even when 'The Daily Show' hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 7, 2015
  • "Honest Mississippi"

    ‘My Mississippi, Your Mississippi, and Our Mississippi’

    The following speech by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves -- Mississippi's second African American federal judge -- has been shared widely since it was read in his courtroom?on February 10. The occasion was a sentencing hearing for the perpetrators of a modern-day lynching: the brutal murder of James Craig...

    By Jake McGraw
    February 20, 2015
  • Editor's Blog

    Stephen Colbert’s best Mississippi-themed segments

    Even when "The Colbert Report" hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.

    By Jake McGraw
    December 18, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Egg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?

    Mississippi's football success is getting very, very expensive.

    By Jake McGraw
    October 13, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Mississippi produces the most ‘geniuses’ in the South

    Mississippians win MacArthur "Genius Grants" at a higher rate than residents of any other Southern state. What, if anything, does that say about us?

    By Jake McGraw
    September 18, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    To prevent a ‘license to discriminate,’ don’t let anti-LGBT judges run unopposed

    This week's same-sex marriage ruling from Rankin County shows the hostility to LGBT rights among some of Mississippi's elected judges.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 15, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    If you watch only one online video today, make sure it’s this one

    John Oliver takes on America's broken prison system, with one particularly egregious example from right here in Mississippi.

    By Jake McGraw
    July 24, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    You’ve probably benefited from Gov. William Winter’s education reforms. Now’s your chance to see how they happened.

    Watch this trailer for an upcoming documentary about Gov. Winter's remarkable life and achievements.

    By Jake McGraw
    July 9, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    How the Common Core literacy standards could have improved this anti-Common Core Facebook post

    All Mississippians could benefit from the rigorous new literacy standards.

    By Jake McGraw
    June 27, 2014
  • Editor's Blog

    Four thoughts about disaster and recovery in Mississippi

    Monday was Mississippi's worst day of tornado activity on record. Nearly every part of the state was hit, killing twelve people and injuring dozens more.

    By Jake McGraw
    May 1, 2014
  • Economics

    41 percent of Mississippians cannot see this blog post

    Or anything online, for that matter.

    By Jake McGraw
    April 24, 2014
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