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 […]
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Love it or leave it?
A state representative’s abrasive email sheds light on Mississippi’s self-destructive mentality.
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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.
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Watch Jon Stewart’s best segments about Mississippi
Even when ‘The Daily Show’ hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.
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‘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 Anderson by white teenagers in 2011. Many outlets have republished Judge Reeves’ powerful words in their entirety, and we choose to be among them.
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Stephen Colbert’s best Mississippi-themed segments
Even when “The Colbert Report” hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.
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Egg Bowl ticket or rent? Which would you pick?
Mississippi’s football success is getting very, very expensive.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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