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Mississippi is in the middle of an "academic disaster," and attitudes and practices must change for the state to compete with the rest of the country in education.
That was the message to the more than 3,000 teachers and administrators Tuesday morning at the state Department of Education's annual conference, "Mississippi Rising."
Superintendent Hank Bounds told attendees he has two goals: to reach the national average set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the next five to seven years, and to reduce the dropout rate by 50 percent in that same period.
Bounds knows they are steep goals, but he doesn't think they are impossible.
Read the rest in The Sun Herald.
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Mississippi is in the middle of an "academic disaster"
Mississippi is in the middle of an "academic disaster," and attitudes and practices must change for the state to compete with the rest of the country in education.
That was the message to the more than 3,000 teachers and administrators Tuesday morning at the state Department of Education's annual conference, "Mississippi Rising."
Superintendent Hank Bounds told attendees he has two goals: to reach the national average set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the next five to seven years, and to reduce the dropout rate by 50 percent in that same period.
Bounds knows they are steep goals, but he doesn't think they are impossible.
Read the rest in The Sun Herald.
- Review Mississippi's Dropout Prevention Program
View Mississippi Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds' dropout prevention program here. Parents, teachers and interested others are invited to e-mail comments to prevention office director Sheril R. Smith . After public comment, it will be discussed...
- Homeschool Regulation: The Revenge Of The Failures
Visit WorldNetDaily to read Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures by Bruce N. Shortt, Ph.D. By attacking homeschool parents, Bounds is playing a familiar game. The goal is to distract the public's attention from the abject failure of...
- Homeschooling In Mississippi
"Where Mississippi is normally at the bottom of everything in the United States, as far as home-school regulations, they are the best state to home school. You have free rein to teach your children what you feel like they need to learn," Sims said. "Mississippi...
- Mississippi Universities
Universities in Mississippi get few $'s, then other educational entities and less money then they did in the past. Indeed, where state dollars funded half of university operating budgets in 1990, state dollars fund only 25 percent of those budgets...
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I have always been thankful it is so easy to homeschool in Mississippi. You just register your child as homeschooled with the school attendance officer for your school district. So Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds' threats to scrutinize homeschooling...