Mississippi boasts about its gains on NAEP reading scores, but those “gains” were largely the result of holding back students who didn’t pass the third...
Many researchers were amazed to see that the state of Mississippi had a sharp growth in its fourth-grade reading scores. Fortunately, the far-right Thomas B....
On November 26, the New York Times published an article that had this headline: ‘Minority Voters Chafe As Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools.’ The point of...
Reverend Dawn Douglas Flowers of Madison, Mississippi, speaks out on behalf of public schools and the newly formed Pastors for MS Children. Writing in...
Bracey Harris writes in The Hechinger Report that teacher activism is making the governors’ races in red states competitive. This is great news. Paula...
One of my friend’s in Mississippi sent this column by Bill Crawford in Meridian. Crawford says the Governor and Legislature regularly complain about federal...
! It is illegal for teachers to strike in Mississippi but they are considering a strike anyway. Legislators offered them a paltry $1,500 raise while...
Paul Thomas of Furman University in South Carolina reminds us that “the crisis in reading” is a staple of American educational history. Every generation...