Harrison County School District Student Earns Perfect ACT Score
Sixteen-year-old Michael Steil has always set his sights on making the perfect ACT score. “This has been my goal since before I was even a […]
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MDE Launches Mississippi Succeeds Report Card
Mississippi released school grades on Oct. 11. These grades serve as a conversation starter and encourage community engagement, which is essential to the success of […]
Gov. Phil Bryant proclaims October College Application Month
Governor Phil Bryant recently proclaimed October College Application Month in Mississippi, recognizing that the college application process may be a barrier to some high school […]
Mississippi Eye Screening Program
All Mississippi public schools are required to conduct basic vision screening of Kindergarten students within the first 45 days of the school year. The MDE […]
Mississippi Launches ‘Strive for Less Than Five’ Absence Prevention Campaign to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
Mississippi is kicking off Attendance Awareness Month in September with a statewide campaign to promote regular school attendance. The Strive for Less than Five campaign […]
Regional Meetings for Parents: Strategies to Improve Reading for K-3 Students
The Mississippi Department of Education announced today a series of regional meetings across the state for parents of students in kindergarten through grade 3. At […]
The 22nd Annual DuBard Symposium: Dyslexia and Related Disorders
September 13-14, 2018 The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS For 21 years, the DuBard School for Language Disorders has hosted notable professionals on the […]
MSMS Moves Up in National Ranking
COLUMBUS, Miss. – For the second year in a row, the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS) has been ranked among the top public […]
WILLIAM CAREY TEAMS UP WITH PREPS TO TACKLE THE TEACHER SHORTAGE
HATTIESBURG – Ask people to identify what mattered most to them in elementary and high school. The answer is never going to be about school […]
MDE Hires Early Childhood Coaches to Support Teachers Statewide
Thanks to a $6 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Mississippi Department of Education has hired a team of early childhood coaches to […]