University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 11-8-2019 November 8, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "November 8, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 30. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/30 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE Daily MISSISSIPPIAN Friday, November 8, 2019 theDMonline.com Volume 108, No. 32 Till center raises $20K The Return in 6 days MADDY QUON [email protected] The 2019-20 Ole Miss Six days after white supremacists fi lmed a video at the new, bulletproof Emmett Till Basketball Preview memorial that caused a social media uproar, $20,000 has been donated to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. Security footage showed eight members of the white Khadim “Dream” Sy: supremacist group, the League of the South, gathered around From Senegal to Oxford the Emmett Till memorial waving both the Mississippi see page 4 state and a League of the South flag on Saturday. A security alarm was sounded, and the group scattered. No Ceilings: Coach Yo enters “Thanks to the white supremacist group that visited our marker to 14 year-old, season two at Ole Miss Emmett Till. Because of you: we raised $20,000, two major see page 5 foundations contacted us and we have had countless visitors to our museum, website and 3,000 new twitter followers,” the The unforgiving Emmett Till Interpretive Center tweeted. landscape of the SEC Patrick Weems, the executive director of the Emmett see page 6 Till Interpretive Center, said that he thought that it was great that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center received more publicity Why Breein Tyree could be SEC after the white supremacists visited the memorial. Player of the Year Weems also referenced this year’s incident involving see page 7 then-members of Kappa Alpha fraternity posing with guns in Devontae Shuler FILE PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNOSN SEE TILL PAGE 3 ILLUSTRATION: KATHERINE BUTLER Pegues More than a pageant winner class schedule, a full-time and named CAROLINE NIHILL part-time job and hits the gym [email protected] about four times a week. Asya Branch, the first Afri- “You know, you can do a lot interim can American Miss Mississippi more than you think you can. USA, is currently preparing for It’s pushing yourself to do it MADDY QUON her next stop in the pageant and making it happen,” Branch [email protected] circuit while maintaining said. “No excuses.” classes and a job. Branch will also be promot- After Brandi Hephner Branch’s schedule consists ing her brand of “I Am More,” LaBanc, formerly the vice of living her day-to-day life through the platform the crown chancellor for student as if she has already won the has given her. The phrase is affairs, announced that she Miss USA crown through the the head of the brand to reach plans to leave the University inspiration of former crowned those who may be dealing with of Mississippi, assistant women. Through her recent difficulties and hardships. provost Charlotte Fant success, she has earned a “I am so much more than Pegues will be taking over as modeling contract with MMG the hardships that I’ve been the interim vice chancellor Model Management. through, and I’m so much more KERRIGAN HERRET / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN for student affairs Nov. 13. On top of preparing herself than just a title,” Branch said. Pegues has worked at for the next round of competi- “ I’m so much more than just a Asya Branch was recently crowned Miss Mississippi USA. Branch will SEE INTERIM PAGE 12 tion, Branch maintains a full SEE MISS MISSISSIPPI PAGE 10 compete for the title of Miss USA in the spring. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 8 NOVEMBER 2019 Mississippi the only state to improve in education tests In the 2019 NAEP results, level in reading was 32%. The National Assessment mathematics; students in LIBBY HUFHAM Mississippi was the only state Sixty-five percent percent Governing Board reported fifth and eighth grade are [email protected] to see improvement in three performed at or above the several key strategies also tested in science, biology of the four tested subjects: NAEP’s basic level. that led to Mississippi’s and U.S. history and assesses fourth grade reading and Statistics also reflect success – Mississippi has students’ proficiency and/or The state of Mississippi has math, as well as eighth grade that the learning gap among created new, more rigorous advanced level of knowledge shown increased scores in all math. The results mark the racial groups is shrinking; academic standards that are in each subject. grades and subject areas in the first time Mississippi has met Mississippi’s African American better aligned to national Mississippi has also started 2019 National Assessment of or outperformed national and Hispanic students expectations for students. to put more focus on literacy Educational Progress (NAEP) averages. outperformed their peers The state began in schools. In 2013, the state in 2019. This year, Mississippi tied nationally in fourth grade administering a new state passed the Literacy-Based The NAEP tests students’ the national average in fourth Promotion Act that increased knowledge in various grade reading and exceeded expectations for teachers and subjects, such as math and the average in fourth grade students in the classroom. reading, and has the moniker math by one point. The state Mississippi was the only state to see Beginning in the 2014- of the “Nation’s Report still falls behind the national 2015 school year, students Card.” It is administered to average in eighth grade improvement in three of the four tested who score at the lowest a representative sample of reading and math. Nationally, subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as achievement level in reading students across the country scores for most NAEP subjects are not promoted to fourth and has been providing dropped or held steady from well as eighth grade math. grade, unless the student information about how 2017 to 2019. qualifies for a good cause students perform academically The test is scored on a scale exemption. nationally since 1969. ranging from 1 to 500 points. “The Literacy-Based Mississippi has shown The Nation’s Report Card reading and math. assessment, the Mississippi Promotion Act places an advancement since 2007 reported that in 2019, the Fourth grade African Academic Assessment emphasis on grade-level and has become a leader in average score of fourth grade American students had an Program (MAAP), during the reading skills, particularly as NAEP improvement. Between students in Mississippi was average reading score that 2015-2016 school year that students’ progress through 2005 and 2019, Mississippi 219, up four points from 2017. was 21 points lower than that was based on the NAEP test grades K-3,” said the increased its scores in all The percentage of fourth grade for white students. In 1998, to ensure that students are Mississippi Department of grades and subject areas of the students who performed at or the performance gap was 26 learning the subjects expected Education in a press release. national exam. above the NAEP’s proficiency points. to be covered on the exam. “In an effort to support schools Students who were eligible Students first take the in their literacy efforts, the for the National School Lunch MAAP in the third grade MDE has deployed educators HUGE 2-DAY PUBLIC AUCTION Program had an average score and continue throughout with expertise in literacy to Huge Contractors Equipment & Truck Auction 28241 that was 24 points lower than high school. The MAAP a number of support schools th Wednesday, Nov. 20 & that for students who were not tests proficiency in across Mississippi.” Thur., Nov. 21st, 2019 • 9am eligible. 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