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Picayune Sees Improvement in Dropout Prevention

[Verbatim From Mississippi Department of Education] When the number of dropouts reached the double digits this school year, administrators and teachers at Picayune Memorial High School decided it was time to do something drastic.

Assistant ...

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Celebrating Black Students Called N-Word at Ole Miss

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The Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss reported a disturbing response to the Barack Obama presidential victory on Tuesday night:

Tensions rose on the University of Mississippi campus shortly after Barack Obama was declared the winner of Tuesday’s ...

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Hinds County School District - Week In Review

Bolton Edwards Elementary Middle
Bolton-Edwards Middle School Boys and Girls Basketball Teams defeated Carver Middle School on Monday, November 3, 2008. Go Rangers!!!

Byram Middle School Updates
Mrs. Myers' classes are demonstrating Newton's ...

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Byram Middle School Honors Military Veterans

[Verbatim] There will be a Veterans' Day Program on November 11, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. at Byram Middle School. Veterans, currently serving military personnel and the public are all invited to share in remembering and honoring our veterans. Please come ...

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Sr. Thea Bowmen School welcomes Bowmen’s oldest living relative

It looks like the students at Thea Bowman Catholic School recently got a very special visit. Here's the press release from the school:

Students at Thea Bowman Catholic School recently welcomed Mrs. Barbara Barber to the school. Mrs. Barber is ...

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Kidzu Playhouse Does ‘Tom Sawyer’

[Verbatim] Kidzu Playhouse, http://www.kudzuplayers.com , is proud to partner with Hernando High School Drama to present The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in celebration of the National Endowment for the Art's The Big Read, http://www.NEABigRead.org , ...

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City of Raymond Proclaims National Chemistry Week

[Verbatim] Local students presented signatures to Raymond’s Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the Oct. 7, 2008, board meeting. The students collected community signatures to show support for a resolution to proclaim October 19-25 National Chemistry ...

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Millsaps Scholar-Athletes Have Highest 5-Year Graduation Rate

[Verbatim] JACKSON, Miss.—Millsaps scholar-athletes have once again proved they have what it takes to win both on the field and in the classroom. Millsaps College recently won the David M. Halbrook Award for having the highest percentage of ...

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Barack the Vote on Facebook

This week we launched our innovative Get Out The Vote campaign which focuses on each of us getting the people we know to vote for Obama by Election Day. Today, we're making it even easier to reach out to friends using the nation's most popular ...

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Who Are ‘Generation We’?

Well, it's the "millennials," and this new book and Web site will tell you about it:

Millennials are the largest generation in American history. Born between 1978 and 2000, they are 95 million strong, compared to 78 million Baby Boomers. They are ...

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NYC to Lower Voting Age to 16?

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[verbatim from National Youth Rights Association]
June 8, 2005: New York City could become the first American city to lower its voting age to sixteen after Councilwoman Gale Brewer introduces her bill to lower the municipal voting age from 18 to ...

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:: youthvideo

Great video focusing on the power that Millennials will have in this election:

visit the Mobilize The Vote 2008 site »   

:: breakingstories

Mississippi Test Scores Show Mixed Results

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by Ward Schaefer
August 21, 2009

The Mississippi Department of Education released 2009 state school test results today showing slight gains in some areas and decreases in others. The 2008-2009 school year was the second year during which students ... read more »

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:: medialiteracy

Screw Friendship Bracelets

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by Hope Owens-Wilson
October 8, 2008

It’s hard to believe that the Media Literacy Project came from a day at the zoo. The Civil Rights Civil Liberties Club, a Jim Hill High School-based group, held a retreat for its members at the Jackson Zoo in ... read more »

:: coverstories

Ceara’s Season

by Adam Lynch
November 18, 2009

Ceara Sturgis' home in Wesson, Miss., is filled with cookie jars. Ancient, smiling caricatures of 1950s-era "Campbell's Kids" join recent additions featuring the likeness of the M&M characters. The kitchen also ...

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:: newsstories

Teens Expect JSU Hazing

by Adam Lynch
October 7, 2009

A Former Forest Hill High School band director and a local Jackson attorney say that high-school students know what they're getting into when they try out for the Jackson State University marching band, the Sonic Boom of the South—and that… 1 read more »

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:: opinioncolumns

[Editorial] JPS Needs To Level With Public

October 28, 2009

The Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees made a mistake last week in not renewing the district's music education contract with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. For 42 years, professional musicians with the state's premier orchestra have taught string instruments to elementary students in JPS… 1 read more »

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Nov 20, 2009 | 03:35 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
baquan2000: Goldenae - you pointed out a key element in your post, "the point is that he would even suggest such a thing. And the sad part is that from the polls, the people ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 02:55 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: WMartin - At the church I attend, St. Andrew's Cathedral, there is no teaching or preaching about hate (unless you include the teaching and preaching AGAINST hate). I'm ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 02:10 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: A fail-safe principle I've always sworn by: If the Kluckers agree with me about something, I need to rethink it.
Nov 20, 2009 | 01:39 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Goldenae: I would truly be ashamed of myself if I looked at life and others the way the some people do. Some folks can not put themselves in another person's shoes to save their lives. It is ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 01:27 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Goldenae: Why is it so hard to understand that regardless of what we would like to think, there are different standards. That is quite obvious in Barbour's suggestion of ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:42 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Huckleberry: “a school that the Klu Klux Klan holds at bay” - Queen, for the reasons I wrote yesterday, I don’t think that statement accurately depicts the “chant” situation or the Ole Miss of ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:25 PM
Ivory Harris
Izzy: Great piece, Ward.
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:13 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: WMartin, believing dogma is a far cry from Loving God, Self, Others. I understand your comment with my heart. And, the irony is that sometimes some in those religions that deem ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:00 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
baquan2000: I thought I made this point earlier, but I guess I didn't. I honestly don't think they will merge the schools. The easiest thing to do is cutback staff, ...
Nov 20, 2009 | 11:57 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
WMartin: They do teach faith I will grant you. It's the only way to get people to believe their fairy tales. Love, tolerance, justice and peace? Well we all know religions have no problem ...
 


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