Mississippi Business Journal » examination http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Teacher to answer charges of cheating on certification test http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:33:21 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=63226 COLUMBUS — A Columbus teacher is scheduled to be in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., on Oct. 3 to answer charges she participating in a scheme in which teacher candidates would hire others to take certification tests. WCBI-TV reports 34-yeard-old Darcel Gardner, a special education teacher at Columbus High School, was placed on administrative leave [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/feed/ 1 More charged in multi-state teacher exam cheating scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/20/more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/20/more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:04:56 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62875 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors in Memphis have announced that 10 more people have been indicted in a scheme to hire others to take teacher certification tests in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. The additional defendants stem from a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in July that charged Clarence Mumford Sr. of Memphis with [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/20/more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme/feed/ 1 UM incoming freshmen set record on entrance exam http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/12/um-incoming-freshmen-set-record-on-entrance-exam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=um-incoming-freshmen-set-record-on-entrance-exam http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/12/um-incoming-freshmen-set-record-on-entrance-exam/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:46:07 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=62542 OXFORD — Incoming freshmen at the University of Mississippi have set a new record on the ACT college entrance exam. The average ACT scores (which include converted SAT scores) for incoming freshmen at Ole Miss for the fall 2012 semester hit 23.9, a record high for the university, school officials report. This figure is 0.4 [...]

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