Tupelo elementary highlights literacy gains amid Mississippi reading reforms

Tupelo elementary highlights literacy gains amid Mississippi reading reforms

As Mississippi has become a national model for literacy reform – posting some of the largest reading gains in the country – a Tupelo elementary school recently opened its doors to showcase how it is helping students learn how to read. Rankin Elementary invited the media to the school on Friday to highlight how its “most struggling students” are now making measurable gains. At the center of the effort is an intervention program called Reading Hor…