COLUMBUS, MS
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
EDUCATION
Real Voices from Real Mississippi
How podcasts are reshaping how high-school students research and tell stories of their hometowns throughout Mississippi.
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
The Past, the Future, the Present: Updates from Coast to Coast
A Fellow named, college services goes big, and scenes from a Day of Enlightened Living -- here are three updates on stories we've been following on this site over the years.
HIGH SCHOOLS
2021 Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration now available on YouTube
Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration in Columbus, Mississippi now available on YouTube.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Why two years of free community college could be a modern GI Bill
Two members of the Biden family, one a president with an "American Families Plan" and the other a First Lady known as "Dr. B" to her community college students, make the case for these schools as engines of opportunity.
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
The Choices Facing Community Colleges
Decisions critical to the future of these institutions so crucial to this economic and political moment
Economic & Business Development
How a ‘Communiversity’ Works
Real collaboration in Mississippi
Economic & Business Development
What David Halberstam Learned in Mississippi
A Journalistic Icon's First Lessons
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
The Last Family-Owned Daily in Mississippi
How one local paper survives
Arts
On Emancipation Day, Back to Mississippi
A return visit to the Golden Triangle
Education
‘The Last Best Hope for Public STEM Education in Mississippi’
Campus of the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, where MSMS is housed (Deborah Fallows). Over the years my wife Deb and I have frequently mentioned the remarkable Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. You can read about some of its successes in posts collected here, and about its recent funding challenges here. A reader who grew […]
Education
Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School
An update on what's happening at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.