Is Mississippi providing financial aid for traditional and non-traditional students alike?
Mississippi only allocates 15 cents of every financial aid dollar on the basis of need, while other states designate 71 cents per financial aid dollar.
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.
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
More than one-fourth of Mississippi public schools are at least 90 percent black. Another tenth are at least 90 percent white. And, just as in 1964, students in those identifiably black schools receive an inferior education.
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Mississippi has changed since Freedom Summer. The struggle for justice and equality has not.
Mississippi’s progress was on full display at Mt. Zion church in Neshoba County last Sunday. So was its unfinished business.
We all love Mississippi, so why don’t we like living here?
The Mississippi author Willie Morris had a saying: “We all love Mississippi, but it doesn’t always love us back.” However, recent data suggest that there may be less love lost than Willie realized.
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Rethinking the Week, May 3rd ? May 9th
Here?s what we thought about this week, the 10,248th in Mississippi state history.
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Mississippi’s Tomorrow: New approaches to entrepreneurship, STEM education are key
Mississippi ranks 46th in business creation and 49th in STEM professionals. Educational reforms are needed to make Mississippi’s economy more dynamic and innovative.
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Report: Mississippi children continue to lack needed resources
Children in Mississippi are falling further behind the rest of the nation?s children in vital areas such as education and health, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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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.
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Rethinking the Week, April 19th ? April 25th
Here?s what we thought about this week, the 10,246th in Mississippi state history.
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