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Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011
12/27/2011
 Tupelo's pressing challenge: Achievement gap threatens city, schools' future
12/27/2011
 Peaceful integration can provide lessons for today
12/27/2011
 Closing gap important for economy, individuals
12/27/2011
 Achievement gap may be caused by more than economics
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
12/28/2011
 Community, parental support plays key role
12/28/2011
 Low-achievers must get deliberate focus
12/28/2011
 Some see need for more black teachers
Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011
12/29/2011
 Clinton is model of successfully educating all subgroups
12/29/2011
 TPSD leaders are committed to reaching all demographics
12/29/2011
 Tupelo tackles demographic change
Monday, Jan. 2, 2012
12/29/2011
 Conversation on Bridging the Gap series


Conversation on Bridging the Gap series
This morning education reporter Chris Kieffer answers questions on his series Bridging the Gap from 10-11 a.m.
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Strategies can help Tupelo reduce achievement gap
Tupelo and its school district face a critical situation as they work to address the schools' academic achievement gap between black and white students.
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As Tupelo tries to narrow its own achievement gap between white and black students, the Clinton Public School District serves as an example of what is possible. (Chris Todd)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Clinton is model of successfully educating all subgroups
As Tupelo tries to narrow its own achievement gap between white and black students, the Clinton Public School District serves as an example of what is possible.
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BRIDGING THE GAP: TPSD leaders are committed to reaching all demographics
The Tupelo Public School District took a big step toward addressing its achievement gap in October 2009.
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BRIDGING THE GAP: Tupelo tackles demographic change
This year’s census data confirmed the city’s worst fears: Predominantly white, middle-income families were fleeing Tupelo for the suburbs.
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Odie Johnson III, with parents Odie Jr. and Earlie in the background, is an example of someone who has defied the achievement gap. Johnson, who was named a Six-Year Rotary Scholar before he graduated from Tupelo High in 2010, credits strong will and parental support among the factors that contributed to his success. For black or poor students who don’t have such support, the community can be an influential aid. (Thomas Wells)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Community, parental support plays key role
Tupelo’s achievement gap did not slow Odie Johnson III.
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BRIDGING THE GAP: Low-achievers must get deliberate focus
That high-poverty and high-minority student populations can have large-scale success in school is evidenced by so-called “90/90/90” schools.
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Rankin Elementary School teacher Chequitta Ivy laughs with her students earlier this month. Some say that having more black teachers like Ivy in Tupelo’s schools would help black students feel more ownership in the system. (C. Todd Sherman)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Some see need for more black teachers
Before integration, black leaders say, there was a much closer connection between the black community and its schools.
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Students at Tupelo Middle School move from the building to the school buses at dismissal earlier this month. An increasing percent of black students in Tupelo schools means it is more urgent for the district to get its black pupils performing closer to its white ones if it is to regain its academic standing. (C. TODD SHERMAN | DAILY JOURNAL)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Tupelo's pressing challenge: Achievement gap threatens city, schools' future
White students in Tupelo score better than white students in most Mississippi school districts on state tests.
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Students at Tupelo Middle School move from the building to the school buses at dismissal earlier this month. An increasing percent of black students in Tupelo schools means it is more urgent for the district to get its black pupils performing closer to its white ones if it is to regain its academic standing. (C. TODD SHERMAN | DAILY JOURNAL)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Peaceful integration can provide lessons for today
The integration of the Tupelo Public School District in 1970 was one of the city's finest hours.
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BRIDGING THE GAP: Closing gap important for economy, individuals
Community leaders and education experts cite a variety of reasons why closing the achievement gap is important.
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Rankin Elementary third grader Michael Hardges, right, begins an assignment at the school earlier this month. As Tupelo strives to reduce its achievement gap, it will need to consider whether school structures are more favorable to white students. (C. TODD SHERMAN | DAILY JOURNAL)
BRIDGING THE GAP: Achievement gap may be caused by more than economics
When then-Republican President George W. Bush and then-Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy worked together to secure passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, standardized testing became the...
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