School systems ponder sex education options

by | posted: February 17, 2012
School districts across Mississippi are continuing to weigh their options on sex education classes. Mississippi schools have until June 30 to decide how to incorporate "abstinence-only" or "abstinence-plus"...
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Legislative Momentum Stalls for ‘Parent Trigger’ Proposals

by | posted: June 14, 2011
Ben Austin, the executive director of Parent Revolution, which supported a controversial charter petition in Compton, Calif., hugs parent Patricia Quintero, last year. —Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/AP-File Concept...
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Struggling Miss. Program Entices Liberal-Arts GraduatesInto Teaching

by | posted: October 28, 1992
By Meg Sommerfeld Earlier this year, Sonya L. Anderson, a 1992 graduate of Yale University and a native of Oxford, Miss., turned down a job offer from Teach For America, the highly publicized national...
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Buddhism and Life on the Mississippi

by | posted: September 30, 1992
By Eric Luce Mark Twain, that Connecticut Yankee, chose as the preface for his Life on the Mississippi an assertion drawn from Harper's Magazine (Feb., 1863) that " ... the basin of the Mississippi...
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