Students can lose equivalent to a month or more worth of learning and comprehension during the summer break. As MPB's Ashley Norwood reports, advocates say it is important students maintain academic skills and learn new things.

Holiday scam artists use a fake website with a Mississippi address to con people across the country out of money.

Mississippi's Charter School Authorizer Board on Monday approved plans for a group that runs three charter schools in Jackson to open two more there.

Mississippi's state Board of Education on Thursday approved almost all of the A-to-F ratings for public schools and districts that it delayed last month, but not before some board members expressed some more heartburn about continuing complaints from superintendents and teachers regarding elements of the system.

Journalism faculty members at the University of Mississippi on Friday asked a donor to voluntarily remove his name from the journalism school following a social media post criticized by Ole Miss Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter for an "unjustified racial overtone."

For some kids in the Mississippi Delta, arts classes are a luxury. MPB’s Alexandra Watts reports on how some Delta communities are coming together to foster a new generation of musicians, dancers and artists.

Clarksdale’s Delta Blues Museum spends every day teaching its visitors about how Mississippi music changed the world. MPB’s Alexandra Watts reports on how new funding will help carry the message even further.

Mississippi has markers noting a blues trail, a country music trail, a civil rights trail and even an Indian mound trail. Now, with the dedication of a marker to the late author Eudora Welty, the state is starting a writers trail.

As the family of Senator John McCain prepares for him to be laid to rest, a Mississippi colleague reflects on McCain's legacy and their relationship. MPB's Ezra Wall reports.