3 results for "mississippi"
💡 SolutionsMississippi Reading Gains Are Real, New Study Confirms
Critics claimed Mississippi's celebrated reading improvements were a statistical illusion, but new research proves the gains are genuine. The secret wasn't just holding kids back—it was investing in teachers and evidence-based literacy instruction.
💡 SolutionsMississippi Rises to Top 10 in Reading Education
A state once ranked 49th in education now leads the nation in teaching poor children to read. Mississippi's dramatic turnaround is rewriting what experts thought possible in public education.
🚀 InnovationMississippi Mom Victoria Gray: First Person Cured by Nobel-Winning CRISPR Gene Therapy
Victoria Gray from Mississippi became the first person in the world to receive life-changing CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease in 2019, transforming her from a mother who spent her children's birthdays in the hospital to a woman freed from decades of unbearable pain. The revolutionary treatment, discovered at UC Berkeley, earned its creators a Nobel Prize and is now bringing hope to 8 million people worldwide living with the genetic disorder.