2015/01/16 – Mississippi will sever its ties from the controversial Common Core testing consortium known as PARCC, according to a press release sent Friday by the state Board of Education. The education board voted earlier to withdraw fromthe Partnership for the …..
2015/01/08 – Mississippi’s K-12 public education ranked last nationally in an annual report released Thursday that gave the state an F for academic achievement and a D+ each in finance and chance for success for an overall grade of D. The …..
2015/01/06 – Common Core opponents packed the state Capitol on the first day of the 2015 Legislative session to show strength in numbers against the federal education standards they claim harms children. Carrying homemade signs and slick banners, the protestors gathered …..
2015/01/05 – In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result. They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another …..
2015/01/05 – Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare. It’s also essential to fixing the relationship between police and the communities they serve. Pittsburgh police chief Cameron McLay angered some police officers and pleasantly surprised their …..
