Dr. Kevin Schaaf, a Metro Nashville Public Schools reading specialist, said students are often fatigued and disengaged in class, stressed by the emphasis on test performance.

Standouts from Collierville, Germantown, MASE, Melrose, Munford and St. George’s are up for consideration this week. 

To understand why the lights may be on on one side of a street but not on the other is to gain a window into the intricate, man-made spiderweb that is MLGW’s distribution system. 

“I think that’s the shoe you talk about later when you say ... ‘They made four other models and they are still going back to the 3s,’” Phil Morant said of Ja’s new signature sneaker. 

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“If the ASD was a ‘failed experiment,’ then what do we call decades of schools where almost no child can read?” 

“We are surrounded by high-quality restaurants, so we didn’t want to enter the arena competing with them,” Hotel Pontotoc’s general manager said. “We had to find our own little niche with upscale bar bites.”

Beleaguered CBU lost a third of its student population from last year while other local colleges saw modest declines or, in the case of LeMoyne-Owen, a small increase.

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Today’s puzzle is a photo of a hand-crafted wooden prayer cross that sits in the lobby of Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis taken by The Daily Memphian photographer Mark Weber.

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Also happening this week: Memphis Safe Task Force kicks off, and Civil Rights Museum opens redesigned Founders Park.

Memphis takes over the top spot in the American Conference with Sunday’s victory in Houston.

Here’s a look at the still-moving political developments in the federal intervention into Memphis’ crime problem.

The Memphis Tigers are 5-0 and inching closer to being ranked. 

It’s scary for the Memphis Tigers to think about what could be when running backs Greg Desrosiers Jr., who had 204 rushing yards in a win at Florida Atlantic, and Sutton Smith are both healthy.

Lowery was elected to the Memphis City Council in 1991 and was elected City Court Clerk in 2020. 

Delta Groove Yoga will close its Overton Square studio this weekend after 12 years, though its teacher training school will continue.

In detailing specifics of the Memphis Safe Task Force, Gov. Bill Lee didn’t dwell on the city’s crime rate. Instead, flanked by Mayor Paul Young and Police Chief C.J. Davis, he pledged that the crime reduction that could come would be lengthy and sustainable. 

With a focus on making quality tacos with prime meat, a couple has opened a new restaurant on U.S. 64 in Bartlett across from Wolfchase Galleria.

When Brandi De La Cruz was deciding what she wanted to do with her life, a career as a high school math teacher was not on her radar. She wanted to be the next Martha Stewart.

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Today’s jigsaw puzzle features a photo of workers building the Flyway observation desk taken by freelance photographer Brad Vest.

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Every day is a new beginning, and every year is a fresh start. That’s the larger message of the Jewish high holy days, which started this past week with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and continue for 10 days through Yom Kippur.

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