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August 22, 2016

PENDER: Given Mississippi’s education system, aren’t charter schools worth a try?

Geoff Pender: Education politics: Lawsuits, no collaboration Mississippi is trying to do something new — at least new to this state — with public education, so it makes perfect sense there’s already a lawsuit filed to put a stop to it. I’m referring, of course, to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lawsuit claiming the state’s…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 22, 2016

Mississippi education proficiency bar, once considered too low, now criticized as too hard?

Has state set bar too high on student proficiency? For a long time, critics said Mississippi had set its bar for proficiency too low. They pointed to the gap between the relatively large shares of students who got good ratings on the old version of Mississippi’s standardized tests, versus the smaller share who scored well…