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Charlotte McNeese, a kindergarten teacher at Ann Smith Elementary in Ridgeland, teaches her students how to write a sequence of events in a lesson last year. With the new Common Core standards, teachers say students are learning more challenging concepts at an earlier age. (Photo: Jackie Mader)
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Educators question future progress if Mississippi backs away from Common Core

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner and Jackie Mader December 7, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inEarly Education, Elementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Pipeline to Prison: Special education too often leads to jail for thousands of American children

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz October 26, 2014October 21, 2020
Shirlinda Robinson, an English teacher at Oakley Youth Development Center, walks through new standards with her second period class. (Photo by Jackie Mader)
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Pipeline to Prison: How the juvenile justice system fails special education students

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader October 26, 2014October 21, 2020
Kiara McPherson and Jeremiah Hilliard, two students at Em Boyd Elementary, work on a science project. Students say they prefer the iPads to the desktop computers that they used to use in class.
Posted inDigital Divide, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Mississippi, News, The South

In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader July 13, 2014October 21, 2020
Marian Wright Edelman and Walt McDonald watch Todd Belcore address the audience about what Mississippi can do to improve education. (Photo: Kayleigh Skinner/The Hechinger Report)
Posted inElementary to High School, Lessons from Freedom Summer, Mississippi, News, The South

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi schools still lag behind

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner June 27, 2014October 21, 2020
Field directors Charles Taylor and Amber Thomas explain how the ballot initiative works to the audience. (Photo: Kayleigh Skinner/The Hechinger Report )
Posted inElementary to High School, Lessons from Freedom Summer, Mississippi, News, The South

Ballot initiative calls for making fully funded education in Mississippi a right

Avatar photo by Kayleigh Skinner June 25, 2014October 21, 2020
Kristen Wells works with a small group of students in Terrol McElroy’s classroom at Emmalee Isable Elementary in Jackson while McElroy observes. (Photo: Jackie Mader)
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Can literacy coaches help solve Mississippi’s education woes?

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader May 25, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

For special education students, diplomas, jobs increasingly elusive

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz February 3, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

New standards bring big changes for Mississippi students

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader December 22, 2013October 21, 2020
social-emotional learning
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Schools gear up for trial run of new online exams

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader and Emily Le Coz December 22, 2013October 21, 2020

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