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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 8, 2015

Brookhaven DailyLeader editorial: Common Core debacle keeps getting sillier

Common Core debacle gets sillier: Editorial The Common Core debacle just keeps getting sillier. After an uproar over the new academic standards, state legislators passed a bill that would distance Mississippi from Common Core. The bill would have created a panel to examine the standards to see if they were a good fit for Mississippi…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 8, 2015

MDE: nearly 5800 third graders could fail

Nearly 6,000 students could repeat 3rd grade Nearly 5,800 third graders failed Mississippi’s first high-stakes reading assessment tied to a new state law requiring they be held back another year. The Mississippi Department of Education on Thursday released the much-anticipated results of the assessment, which all third graders took in April, but it provided only…

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