HIGH SCHOOLS
COMMUNITIES THAT WORK
‘How America’s Towns are Writing the Future of the Country’
Residents, coaches, reporters discuss local-level community revitalization initiative at Jefferson Educational Society Global Summit event.
WATER
Past, Present, and Future on the Water: Using StoryMaps to Explore Bucksport, Maine
What does a mile-long stretch along the Penobscot River tell the walker about Bucksport, Maine? As it turns out, a lot.
CIVIC LIFE
Inside Our Towns: PA Humanities
A look at Humanities in the 21st century, the power of storytelling in community development, and more.
EDUCATION
Real Mississippi podcasts: Having the Grace to Find a Sense of Place
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Christina Zhang explores how a church in Biloxi serves as a space to share and celebrate Asian-American culture.
EDUCATION
Real Mississippi podcasts: You Can Go Back Home Again
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Raegan Calvert explores the challenges and opportunities in her hometown of Wiggins, Mississippi
GEOJOURNALISM
Why Story Maps Matter
People understand the world through stories. People absorb their stories in ever-expanding ways. Here is a preview of a powerful, emerging form of digital story-telling, which we’ll be using frequently in this space.
EDUCATION
Real Voices from Real Mississippi
How podcasts are reshaping how high-school students research and tell stories of their hometowns throughout Mississippi.
HIGH SCHOOLS
A Message to the Class of 2021
What's a Mike? And what makes a Mike Mighty?
HIGH SCHOOLS
2021 Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration now available on YouTube
Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration in Columbus, Mississippi now available on YouTube.
Education
The world you can change is the world you can reach out and touch
Through research, partnerships, and performance, students are giving a voice to history’s ignored chapters to tell the fuller story of their town.
Education
‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ in a Time of Racial Reckoning
This film's story would be surprising and engrossing at any time, but it has a current power and relevance its producers could not have foreseen when they began making it.
Education
Can Schools ‘Teach Students to Think’?
A reader's response
Education
How to Teach Students to Think
Students getting a 'first chance' at MSMS
Economic & Business Development
Dodge City’s New Frontier
A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics.
Education
Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School
An update on what's happening at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.
Education
Punching Above Their Weight in Mississippi
Mississippi schools come in #49 in many national rankings. Read these essays and poems by high school students from Columbus, Mississippi. Then tell the folks who make up the rankings that they need a different algorithm.