2015/05/07 – Some 5,700 Mississippi elementary school students risk repeating the third grade next year after scoring minimal on last month’s statewide reading assessment. The Mississippi Department of Education released statewide test results at a Board of Education meeting Thursday morning. …..
2015/05/05 – PASCAGOULA – On a rain-drenched day in April, students at Pascagoula’s Cherokee Elementary sweated out a computerized 50-question multiple choice test. Third-grader Lacey Peeler admitted she was a little nervous about the high stakes attached to the test. “Kind of, …..
2015/05/06 – A Jackson Public Schools teacher told the Board of Trustees on Tuesday that despite teaching for 18 years in New York, she has “never felt more disrespected and degraded” than in the two years she’s spent in Jackson Public …..
2015/05/05 – JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi education officials will launch their own voluntary review of the Common Core academic standards, even after Gov. Phil Bryant vetoed a bill that would have created an outside panel to examine the standards. State …..
2015/05/04 – This month nearly 10,500 students from Mississippi’s eight public universities will graduate. It’s one of the largest classes in state history. Mississippi’s sluggish economy may be a difficult place to find work. Hundreds of friends and family members crowded …..
