Four years later, the children of Cleveland’s Promise prepare to head to high school

For two years, two reporters documented the realities shaping the students’ lives— the housing insecurity and trauma they had ...

A new bold plan aims to help more Mississippi third-graders read on grade level

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...
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States look to Mississippi as model for improving reading scores

States across the country are now looking to Mississippi for answers as they work to address ongoing literacy ...

Georgia looks to Mississippi to help children learn to read

Georgia education officials are studying Mississippi’s dramatic literacy transformation as 70$ of the Peach State’s ...

Elementary robotics students travel for state competition

A couple of local teams of fourth- and fifth-graders are among the 48 that have traveled to Mason, Mich. this weekend for the ...