Lloyd Gray – DJ to start year-long education reform investigation
Today the Daily Journal begins a year-long comprehensive look at the factors affecting educational performance in Mississippi and the systemic reforms that will be necessary to raise that performance. We’ll look at how poverty affects a child’s education and what that means for teaching children of poverty. We’ll examine issues like teen pregnancy and family structure that perpetuate the poverty cycle. We’ll explore the state’s efforts to improve reading, the foundation for all learning. We’ll look at teacher quality, training and recruitment. And we’ll focus on the growing consensus on the necessity for education preceding kindergarten, that cornerstone of the 1982 act.
We’ll keep a close eye on the policy debates on issues like charter schools as well, taking a look at the states and communities being offered as models.
In all this, we’ll try to connect the issues surrounding school performance, help raise awareness about them and explore potential solutions.
Education reform, as Winter has said, is not a one-time event but an ongoing process. Mississippi isn’t where it was 30 years ago, but it’s far from where it needs to be. We invite you to join us in the months ahead as we look at what it will take to get us there.
Read more: djournal.com – LLOYD GRAY Where to from here
12/16/12
Magnolia Tribune
