By R.L. Nave
May 16, 2012
Every weekday just before dawn, Carra Powell rises to dress and feed breakfast to her three children before making the 17-mile one-way trek to a private Catholic school across the state line in Tennessee. Powell and her children, ages 5…
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[education] - [Politics] - [State] - [Youth] - Charter Schools Rock?
[City/County] - [education] - [Youth] - SWAG: Students with a Goal
April 25, 2012
Concern about apathy among their peers led several Northwest Rankin High School students to start Students With A Goal, or SWAG, to support each other as they serve the community.
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Concern about apathy among their peers led several Northwest Rankin High School students to start Students With A Goal, or SWAG, to support each other as they serve the community.
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[City/County] - [Crime] - [State] - [Youth] - Pushing Kids Out
Feeding the 'Cradle-to-Prison' Pipeline
by Valerie Wells
January 18, 2012
Drodriquez Williams watched the news that night about the twin towers at the World Trade Center collapsing Sept. 11, 2001. It shocked the 9-year-old boy. Every time he saw the footage of the…
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by Valerie Wells
January 18, 2012
Drodriquez Williams watched the news that night about the twin towers at the World Trade Center collapsing Sept. 11, 2001. It shocked the 9-year-old boy. Every time he saw the footage of the…
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[education] - [Politics] - [State] - [Youth] - [editorial] - Put to the Test
Where the Candidates Stand on Education
by Elizabeth Waibel
August 17, 2011
School is beginning at Timberlawn Elementary School. Here, and at other schools in the Jackson area, younger children bounce nervously and excitedly through the front doors, swinging bright, empty backpacks decorated…
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by Elizabeth Waibel
August 17, 2011
School is beginning at Timberlawn Elementary School. Here, and at other schools in the Jackson area, younger children bounce nervously and excitedly through the front doors, swinging bright, empty backpacks decorated…
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[City/County] - [education] - [Youth] - [Good Living] - Welcome, New Jacksonians
by Briana Robinson
August 8, 2011
Fact: Jackson is a college town. The metro area is home to eight colleges and universities plus a few technical schools. Despite the popular (and false) saying of "there's nothing to do in Jackson," people flock here for their education,…
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August 8, 2011
Fact: Jackson is a college town. The metro area is home to eight colleges and universities plus a few technical schools. Despite the popular (and false) saying of "there's nothing to do in Jackson," people flock here for their education,…
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[Good] - [wellness] - [Youth] - [Good Living] - Good Ideas
by Donna Ladd
May 11, 2011
Families are at the heart of everything we do. They serve as a witness to our lives, support us when we fail and remind us of where we came from. Even if you have a nontraditional family, a strong family…
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May 11, 2011
Families are at the heart of everything we do. They serve as a witness to our lives, support us when we fail and remind us of where we came from. Even if you have a nontraditional family, a strong family…
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[City/County] - [State] - [Youth] - Amazing Teens
by Tim Roberson, ShaWanda Jacome and Lacey McLaughlin
April 27, 2011
In honor of graduation month and new beginnings, the Jackson Free Press is honoring a group of amazing high school teens from throughout the Jackson metropolitcan area this issue.
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April 27, 2011
In honor of graduation month and new beginnings, the Jackson Free Press is honoring a group of amazing high school teens from throughout the Jackson metropolitcan area this issue.
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[education] - [Politics] - [State] - [Youth] - No Small Feat
by Ward Schaefer
February 16, 2011
The students in John Bennetts’ second-grade class are being perfect sponges. Bennetts, a teacher at KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy, a charter school in Helena, Ark., is drilling the class on the difference between “explicit information” and “implicit information.” His…
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February 16, 2011
The students in John Bennetts’ second-grade class are being perfect sponges. Bennetts, a teacher at KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy, a charter school in Helena, Ark., is drilling the class on the difference between “explicit information” and “implicit information.” His…
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[Crime] - [Justice] - [State] - [Youth] - Rush to Judgment: Trying Kids As Adults
by Valerie Wells and Donna Ladd
December 1, 2010
Tyler Wayne Edmonds took his last seventh-grade exam at Fifth Street Junior High School in West Point on a Thursday and was confident he had done well. So far, 2003 had turned out to be a pretty…
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December 1, 2010
Tyler Wayne Edmonds took his last seventh-grade exam at Fifth Street Junior High School in West Point on a Thursday and was confident he had done well. So far, 2003 had turned out to be a pretty…
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[health care] - [State] - [Youth] - Kids Having Kids
by Lacey McLaughlin
November 17, 2010
Ollie Jackson’s baby, Lauryn, sleepily rubs her eyes as she sits on her 19-year-old father’s lap during a football game at Newell Field in Jackson. As Callaway and Lanier High School football teams battle each other, several bubbly teenage girls…
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November 17, 2010
Ollie Jackson’s baby, Lauryn, sleepily rubs her eyes as she sits on her 19-year-old father’s lap during a football game at Newell Field in Jackson. As Callaway and Lanier High School football teams battle each other, several bubbly teenage girls…
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[Justice] - [Youth] - Sticks & Stones
by Valerie Wells
October 20, 2010
Kelsey Ann Jackson threw up. The thought of going to school that morning made her sick. She cried about the mean girls she would have to face in her sixth-grade class. After her mom dropped her off at her grade…
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October 20, 2010
Kelsey Ann Jackson threw up. The thought of going to school that morning made her sick. She cried about the mean girls she would have to face in her sixth-grade class. After her mom dropped her off at her grade…
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[development] - [Justice] - [Youth] - ‘I Wanted to Die’
by Amy Hendry
October 20, 2010
I remember the first time I was ever bullied. I was in kindergarten, and this little girl made fun of my curly hair and thick glasses. I retaliated by putting chips in her grape juice. She started to cry and…
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October 20, 2010
I remember the first time I was ever bullied. I was in kindergarten, and this little girl made fun of my curly hair and thick glasses. I retaliated by putting chips in her grape juice. She started to cry and…
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[development] - [Justice] - [Youth] - ‘They Accepted Me’
by Charlotte Blom
October 20, 2010
After leading a pretty comfortable existence in Gayhead Elementary School, where I’d attended on and off from first grade, fifth grade ended.
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October 20, 2010
After leading a pretty comfortable existence in Gayhead Elementary School, where I’d attended on and off from first grade, fifth grade ended.
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[education] - [State] - [Youth] - [Green] - [Do-Gooders] - Choctaw Sun Warriors Look to Australia
by Adam Lynch
August 18, 2010
The Mississippi Band of Choctaws kicked serious sun-lovin’ butt this past month after taking home the overall championship in the 15th Hunt-Winston Solar Car Challenge for high-school teams.…
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August 18, 2010
The Mississippi Band of Choctaws kicked serious sun-lovin’ butt this past month after taking home the overall championship in the 15th Hunt-Winston Solar Car Challenge for high-school teams.…
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[City/County] - [education] - [State] - [Youth] - Keeping Kids In School
by Lacey McLaughlin
July 28, 2010
Inside the Jackson Medical Mall’s Thad Cochran Center, a group of students and teachers hover around a circular table. As new students walk into the New Focus for Youth Intervention program, they pull up chairs and begin to fill the…
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July 28, 2010
Inside the Jackson Medical Mall’s Thad Cochran Center, a group of students and teachers hover around a circular table. As new students walk into the New Focus for Youth Intervention program, they pull up chairs and begin to fill the…
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[City/County] - [education] - [State] - [Youth] - Slow Progress On Pre-K
by Ward Schaefer
July 28, 2010
Early-childhood education in Mississippi is the big engine that couldn’t: Despite reams of documentation showing its economic and educational benefits, pre-kindergarten has not attracted the political support—and public funding—in Mississippi it has in many neighboring states.
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July 28, 2010
Early-childhood education in Mississippi is the big engine that couldn’t: Despite reams of documentation showing its economic and educational benefits, pre-kindergarten has not attracted the political support—and public funding—in Mississippi it has in many neighboring states.
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[City/County] - [education] - [State] - [Youth] - Tough Times Await Bigger JPS Board
by Ward Schaefer
July 28, 2010
Jackson Public Schools will enter the coming school year with a lean budget and a growing Board of Trustees. The five-member school board, which already boasts four members with less than a year of experience each, is set to add…
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July 28, 2010
Jackson Public Schools will enter the coming school year with a lean budget and a growing Board of Trustees. The five-member school board, which already boasts four members with less than a year of experience each, is set to add…
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[City/County] - [media literacy] - [Youth] - Eyes On The Machine: Jackson Teens Cover The Media
by Bryan Doyle
October 8, 2008
At the Media Literacy Project’s June 7 orientation, project associates began discussing what would be the nature of their summer research. Project associates decided to review four Jackson-area publications and study how each covered youth. The associates chose three weekly…
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October 8, 2008
At the Media Literacy Project’s June 7 orientation, project associates began discussing what would be the nature of their summer research. Project associates decided to review four Jackson-area publications and study how each covered youth. The associates chose three weekly…
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