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Tennessee looks to 'Mississippi miracle' as it grapples with stagnant reading scores

Tennessee, which once counted on Mississippi s worst-in-the-nation reading scores to elevate its own national ranking for literacy, is now looking to its neighbor to the south as a role model for how to improve. ....

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Tennessee looks to 'Mississippi miracle' amid stagnant reading scores

Tennessee once counted on Mississippi’s worst-in-the-nation reading scores to elevate its own national ranking for literacy. Now it’s looking to its neighbor to the south as a role model for how to improve. ....

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Tennessee lawmakers propose scholarship plan to address child care 'crisis'

With quality child care often costing more than in-state tuition at Tennessee colleges, two lawmakers have filed legislation to create a child care scholarship program. ....

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Hillsdale charter school appeals will test new Tennessee panel

Commission leaders promise that politics won’t play a part in their decisions. Others say the deck is already stacked in Hillsdale’s favor. ....

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Too many Memphis seniors are going hungry. We must fix youth poverty

Memphis leads the nation when it comes to elderly people who are food insecure. The predicament is an offshoot of structural and child poverty here. ....

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