2015/05/27 – CARROLLTON, Miss.— In the weeks leading up to Mississippi’s new third-grade literacy test this past April, Zanysha Amos, age 9, was a bundle of anxiety. She couldn’t eat; she couldn’t sleep. Ever-present worry furrowed her little brow. When Zanysha …..
2015/05/26 – JACKSON, Miss. (AP)—Republican legislative leaders are asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to restore the original description for one of the two school funding amendments that will be on the ballot in November. In papers filed with the high court …..
2015/05/26 – The potential for nearly 15 percent of Mississippi students to repeat the third grade after flunking reading tests has amped up the political, partisan fear and loathing that passes for public education policy debate in this state. It’s somber …..
2015/05/26 – The deadline imposed by a local union chapter of teachers in Jackson Public Schools has come and gone, and Superintendent Cedrick Gray has said he will not meet with the group because they refuse to include other stakeholders. The …..
2015/05/26 – Two decades ago, Lani Guinier became a liberal icon when President Bill Clinton proposed—and then withdrew, under conservative pressure—her nomination to head of the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. A racially charged 1993 Wall Street Journal op-ed unfairly labeled Guinier a “quota …..
