State of Our Schools
(NOTE: The State of Our Schools series has a new landing page: http://educationmatters.djournal.com/state-of-our-school/ This post contains links for all of December’s stories) Today, we ran the first...
View ArticleLegacy of the Education Reform Act
Along with the stories from the State of Our Schools series in today’s Daily Journal, we also had quotes from several current and former state and education leaders about the legacy of the Education...
View ArticleState of Our Schools, Day 2
Today, we continued the State of Our Schools series with Daily Journal Capitol reporter Bobby Harrison writing about education actions by state government in the years since the 1982 Education Reform...
View ArticleFlorida model links
In today’s Daily Journal, we had the second installment of our State of Our Schools series, examining the Florida education reform model being studied by Mississippi’s Legislature as a possible example...
View ArticleMississippi Legislative Education Committees will likely be busy soon
Not much happened in education reform during the Mississippi Legislature’s first week in session, this past week. Expect that to change soon. Both the House and Senate are expected to debate a bill...
View ArticleLiteracy instruction: Are Mississippians too nice?
Today we began the third installment of the Daily Journal’s year-long State of Our Schools series. The entire series can be found here. During my reporting for this week’s series, I spoke with former...
View ArticleTeacher quality series conversation
Last week, the Daily Journal ran a six-day package of stories on the issue of teacher quality and the need for Mississippi to attract more of its best and brightest residents to be classroom teachers....
View ArticleSchool rankings breakdown
The Daily Journal determined the average income, number of teenage births and percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers for each district graded “A” by the Mississippi Department of Education. It...
View ArticleSingle family statistics
Today’s installment of the Daily Journal’s “State of Our Schools” series includes a look at the rising percentage of Mississippi babies who are being born to unmarried mothers. Below is the data that...
View ArticleState of Our Schools: Pre-K studies
Many studies have examined the impact of high-quality pre-K on the youngest learners. Here are some of the more famous: To read the entire Daily Journal State of Our Schools series, including the most...
View ArticleState of Our Schools: Choosing quality
What do parents need to know when choosing high-quality child care? Here are some indicators that can help: Quality checklist • Well-trained staff and small teacher-student ratios • Opportunities for...
View ArticleState of Our Schools: What does ‘prepared’ mean?
As part of the Daily Journal’s “State of Our Schools” series on pre-K, kindergarten teachers provided several recommendations for what students should be able to do when they start kindergarten. That...
View ArticleState of Our Schools: GELI data
This chart ran with today’s “State of Our Schools” story about the Gilmore Early Learning Initiative: Below are the scores of students who had attended Gilmore Early Learning Initiative Promise Schools...
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