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RENEE CUNNINGHAM: Common Core: Teach it, test it
Parents have started to talk to me about the work their children are doing in school, which is a good thing! The other day a parent showed me reading worksheet for 1st graders. The worksheet had a...
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RENEE CUNNINGHAM: Common Core: New math isn’t new
There are a lot of complaints from parents about the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, for short. Interestingly, many of the complaints are about the elementary school math. The CCSS is basically...
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Solar farm shines in Chickasaw County
(Floyd Ingram / Buy at photos.chickasawjournal.com)Shovels of dirt were tossed just south of Okolona Wednesday as part of the groundbreaking for Commodore Solar Farm. The 30-acre solar farm will...
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Common Core politics have changed since adoption
By Chris Kieffer Daily Journal When Mississippi adopted the Common Core State Standards four years ago, there was little fanfare. The new guidelines for English and math instruction were not a...
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Legislature faces possible high-profile issues
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON – The 2015 session of the Mississippi Legislature, which starts Tuesday, will not be lacking for high-profile issues that could cause conflict...
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Congressman Nunnelee dies at home
Special to the Chickasaw Journal TUPELO – Congressman Alan Nunnelee, who battled brain cancer and the effects of a stroke for eight months, died today at his home, surrounded by family members. The...
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SONNY SCOTT: The trouble with education . . .
It is comforting to have a cultural anchor giving a sense of continuity with the past. Give thanks, Dear Hearts, here in Mississippi we have our legislature. We may ridicule it, but perhaps we...
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MAEP funding sent to governor $211M short
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON – The state Senate rejected a proposal to phase in full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program over a three-year period and...
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Testing time
HOUSTON – Students at Houston schools started taking a series of state-mandated tests at the end of March and it won’t let up until next month. The Houston School Board heard reports from principals...
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FLOYD INGRAM: The best we can produce
Hundreds of our young men and women from Houston, Okolona and Houlka graduated from high school this week. They lined up in their caps and gown and strolled across the floor or field to pick up their...
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Education key to upward mobility
Adam Robison | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COMDavid Dodson, president of North Carolina based MDC talks about strategies to improve career and workforce readiness of staudents in PUL, was one of this...
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FLOYD INGRAM: By the numbers
There is a saying in the newspaper business that there is no bad news or good news: just news. The idea is ones perspective on an issue determines if it is positive or negative. The sting of one...
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DANIEL GARDNER: Truth inside the culture war
Winners, or at least survivors of wars write the history of those wars. The same is true of culture wars, and the winners of America’s culture battles are the progressives. Besides winners, losers and...
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GED offered at WIN, Excel
Special to the Chickasaw Journal Registration is continuing for adult basic education/high school equivalency (ABE/GED) and ESL classes at several locations in Chickasaw County. • Houston WIN Center,...
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EDITORIAL: Support for Solar Car
This is normally the time of year this newspaper is bringing you headlines, stories and photos of the Houston Solar Car coming back from some part of this great country with another National Solar...
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Potential + Effort = Success
(Hank Wiesner / Buy at photos.chickasawjournal.com)Coaching and teaching are all about building relationships with students. Shown clockwise from left, Okolona Coach Arteria Clifton talks things over...
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Fall Fun Day seeks volunteers
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal HOUSTON – The Chickasaw County 4-H Clubs are heading up a community service project called “Fall Fun & Games Day” which will be held on Oct. 30, at the...
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Okolona notches academic benchmarks
(Floyd Ingram / Buy at photos.chickasawjournal.com)Construction crews were on the roof of Okolona Elementary School recently stopping leaks with a new roof that is part of the district’s $2...
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OUR OPINION: Houston Solar Car representing region from across the world
In less than a week, members of the Houston Solar Car Team will embark on an epic adventure in Australia, representing Northeast Mississippi halfway across the globe. Fourteen students departed last...
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Chasing the Sun
(James Ingram / Buy at photos.chickasawjournal.com)Houston Solar Car driver Hunter Moore gives the thumbs up as he peers through the safety glass prior to the start of the World Solar Car Challenge...
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