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Kayleigh Skinner

Kayleigh Skinner is a graduate of The University of Mississippi. During her time at Ole Miss she contributed regularly to the school’s publication The Daily Mississippian and city newspaper The Oxford Eagle. Her work for The Hechinger Report has appeared in The Clarion Ledger, Jackson Free Press and The Sun Herald. She is from Canada where she primarily learned French growing up. When she moved to California in the third grade she was very bad at reading and writing in English, so she taught herself by reading "The Petsitters Club" book series.

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James Brooks, director of marketing at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Degrees Matter! associate director Camy Sorge, and pastor Odell Cleveland work together to encourage members of the congregation to return to school.
Posted inHigher Education, News

From pews to classes, a new push for higher ed in church

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner June 29, 2015April 8, 2021

GREENSBORO, N.C. ─ Damita Rhodie was on her way to a bachelor’s degree when she fell in love, got married, had kids, divorced, and ended up with no bachelor’s degree and no time to get one. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour It’s a story so common that policymakers struggle mightily to overcome it […]

Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Mississippi to open first early college program styled after schools in North Carolina

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner May 31, 2015October 21, 2020
In this April 14, 2015 photograph, third grade students in Stephanie Slayter’s class at Cherokee Elementary School in Pascagoula, Miss., wait for teachers to pick up computers after completing a computerized 50-question multiple choice third-grade reading test. Across Mississippi, 38,000 third graders, their parents and teachers are waiting to find out whether they’ll be moving on to fourth grade.
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

More than 5,000 Mississippi third-graders could be held back this year for low reading scores

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner May 7, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

How will charter schools differ from traditional public schools in Mississippi?

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner April 14, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

How does underfunding actually affect schools? Four questions with Greene County Superintendent Richard Fleming

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner April 9, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

How one Mississippi mom changed what voters will see on the ballot this November

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner April 2, 2015October 21, 2020
Senior Ryan Felder (left) and sophomore Alex Borst (right) created the student group "Students for Chancellor Jones," which calls for the IHL board to reinstate the chancellor.
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Students demand answers after Ole Miss board ousts chancellor

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner March 24, 2015April 8, 2021
K. Butler, right of Benton, Miss., and Lynn Wagner of Hickory, second from right, speak to school children from Meridian as they are guided past their Opponents of Common Core table in the rotunda of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The group is one of several statewide that are against a national standards Initiative that sets Math and English curriculum in every participating state at the same level. Various opposing groups lobby visiting school children, visitors and lawmakers into opposing the standards in Mississippi. Opponents have provided coffee, morning pastries and water several times during the session in an effort to promote a Senate bill that would repeal Common Core in Mississippi.
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Mississippi legislature creates a new hurdle for Common Core standards

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner March 12, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Mississippi special education bill passes that opponents say will create “puppy mills for children”

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner March 12, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

At new Mississippi charter school, students will learn to speak computer

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner March 1, 2015October 21, 2020

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