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March 05 - April 03:
“Long Time Coming” art exhibition at Bozarts Gallery, 403 Main Street, Water Valley, MS

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Winter Institute
multimedia project on the integration of the University Medical Center and the UM School of Law

wins Mississippi Historical Society Oral History Award

Mississippi Department of Education announces new Mississippi U.S. History framework training opportunities (PDF file)

Mississippi Truth Project begins statewide truth and reconciliation process

Student Network for Inquiry and Dialogue (SNID) releases new website

New course on Restorative Justice and Public Education in Mississippi offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010

Visit our new resource for teachers and students: www.mscivilrightsproject.com

Join the Welcome Table: An Era of Dialogue on Race

Restorative Justice and
Public Education in Mississippi

Education 333
Cross-listed at EDUC 555 and LAW 698

Click here for a PDF file of the course flyer

Click here for a PDF file of the course Spring 2010 syllabus

Are you interested in the history of public education in Mississippi?

Are you curious as to how the issue of race shapes educational policy?

Would you like to learn more about the current status of education in Mississippi?

If you said yes to any of these questions

You must take:

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Restorative Justice and Public Education in Mississippi
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Taught by Rita Bender and Bill Bender. Both of these attorneys have practiced in the Federal Courts and in the State of Washington for many years. Rita has been a civil rights and access to justice activist, and was a COFO community organizer. Bill has extensive experience as a civil rights, governmental misconduct and constitutional law litigator.

For more information about the course, see the proposed syllabus:
Education 333, Year-Long (Students may elect to take first semester without enrolling in second semester)
(Cross listed as EDUC 555 and LAW 698)
Thursdays, 2-4:30
For more information, call 662-915-6734 or email glisson@olemiss.edu