Southern Education Desk

Sarah Cannon helps her New Orleans students prepare for a debate about felon disenfranchisement.Credit Mallory Falk/WWNOEdit | RemoveBy Mallory Falk,…

In Mississippi, the Civil War still stirs emotions. It’s not so much that teachers disagree on how it should be taught, but that ongoing attempts by the…

Football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics. College sports are a way of life in the South. Fans pack into stadiums or glue themselves to televisions to…

When it comes to Division I football, Southern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, produce the largest number of recruits per…

Across the South, college football is in full swing. But football is just one of dozens of NCAA sports. In any season, student-athletes are pushing…

States across the U-S have increasingly been turning to charter schools in an effort to bolster struggling public school systems. Two of the most recent…

Florida has about 650 charter schools. They are part of school districts but are privately managed and largely free of many of the rules governing…

The big push for charter schools in Louisiana started after Hurricane Katrina. The state’s Recovery School District took over most of the public schools…

Charter schools are changing American education. Some say for the better, some say the worse. This week the Southern Education Desk looks at the charter…

The Common Core education standards have generated a lot of debate, and controversy. But that political noise can sometimes cloud the goal of the…