University of Mississippi Writing Project
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Students Learn More than Journalism Skills at Summer Camp
Five Writing Project sites participated in NWP's Civic Journalism initiative, summer camps that not only honed students’ writing skills, but helped make them smarter consumers of news and media while allowing them to see journalism as a springboard for tackling issues in their rural communities.…
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Meet Sydney McGaha
It’s not the shortest trip from her then 9th grade classroom in Pontotoc High School in rural Mississippi to a Congressional Briefing Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC but Sydney McGaha was determined to make it.…
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Green is the New Pink: Young Women Environmentalists in Action
Dressed in full “Ghostbusters outfits,” a group of 15 usually quiet and introverted middle school girls are abuzz with questions and predictions as they prepare to electrically shock a pond and count its temporarily unconscious fish.…
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