The e-Learning for Educators Initiative was funded by a U.S. Department of Education Ready to Teach Grant involving eight states (AL, DE, KY, MD, MS, MO, NC, NH, PA, and WV). The central goal of the initiative is to establish an effective and sustainable model of online professional development that will help address state-wide teacher quality needs and have an impact on student achievement.
Seat belts save lives, but the average Mississippian is more than three times as likely to die in a crash not wearing one than the average American, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
A former bodyguard for late Jackson Mayor Frank Melton who served a year on probation for conspiracy has been in charge of Internal Affairs for the Hinds County Sheriff's Department for some time, a county supervisor said Friday.
To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police describe him as a cold-blooded killer who stalked his victims on dark stretches of Mississippi's highways and shot two of them dead.
Clinton's Eastside Elementary School fifth-grader Natalie Hampton reads at least five books a week so she can become a better writer, reader and speaker.
