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  • Education

    Listen: a conversation with Bracey Harris about school segregation and reopening in COVID

    Bracey Harris reports on education in Mississippi for the?The Hechinger?Report, a nonprofit education news service based at Columbia Teachers College.?Her stories illuminate the systemic effects of race and poverty while keeping the spotlight where it belongs — on the children, parents, teachers, and others who have the most at stake....

    By Jake McGraw
    September 2, 2020
  • Editor's Blog

    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
  • Commentary

    Commentary: A call for a more careful use of rhetoric

    A response to recent columns The Daily Mississippian by professors of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

    By LaToya Faulk, Jennifer Jackson, Amber Nichols-Buckley, & Sarah Bartlett Wilson
    September 23, 2016
  • Education

    My Mississippi: Delta Dojo

    This is an excerpt from the new book, Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta.?

    By Michael Copperman
    September 14, 2016
  • Analysis

    Pre-K study shows that Mississippi kids succeed when given a chance

    An analysis of MDE data shows that pre-K attendance can kickstart a positive domino effect that raises the likelihood of long-term academic success.

    By Jake McGraw
    September 22, 2015
  • Analysis

    Read the fine print on special education vouchers

    Special needs students are legally entitled to free, appropriate public education services. In order to accept one of Mississippi's new $6,500 vouchers, they must waive that right ? with potentially costly consequences.

    By Jeremy Eisler, Mississippi Center for Justice
    September 18, 2015
  • 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
  • Analysis

    Mississippi leads south in black student suspensions

    Black students compose half of Mississippi's enrollment but receive 74 percent of suspensions according to a new analysis of federal school discipline data.

    By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report
    September 1, 2015
  • Analysis

    College degrees are out of reach for most Mississippians

    Mississippi has one of the nation's lowest rates of higher education attainment and one of the highest rates of student loan default.

    By Jessica Shappley, Mississippi Economic Policy Center
    May 2, 2015
  • Commentary

    Commentary: The College Board?s dismissal of Dan Jones sets a dangerous precedent

    If you take the IHL Board at their word, the University of Mississippi's educational and social mission is subordinate to the quest for financial returns.

    By Jake McGraw
    March 29, 2015
  • Education

    Letter from recent ASB presidents: Why Chancellor Jones won?t be easy to replace

    Four Ole Miss student body presidents say that the IHL Board has threatened the progress they worked with Dan Jones to achieve.

    By Rethink Mississippi Staff
    March 24, 2015
  • Education

    If you want to stand with Dan Jones, here’s what you can do

    Don't take the unjustified firing of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones lying down.

    By Jake McGraw
    March 21, 2015
  • Analysis

    Mississippi has the most elected superintendents in the country. Here’s what it means for students.

    Small school districts fare worse when superintendents are elected rather than appointed.

    By Owen Phillips
    January 26, 2015
  • Analysis

    What does the Legislature’s alternative mean for Initiative 42?

    It makes it harder to pass. Plain and simple.

    By Jake McGraw
    January 13, 2015
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