Teaching methods, re-evaluating test complexity, catering to learning styles—What can lawmakers do to avoid a high rate of failure regarding state mandated testing?

Dr. Dave Daves serves as Chair of the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education at Southern Miss. Daves' Southern Miss office is adorned with shelves of books both tattered and new with titles ranging from "How to be a Single Parent" to "Math and the Mona Lisa' to "K-12 Teaching."

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM)- Thousands of Mississippi seniors won't be graduating on time because they can't pass the history portion of the required state test, officials say. 

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM)- As the independent film, The Historian, continues on its third day of filming, the well-known Hollywood faces keep coming to Hattiesburg.

Iron Man 3 William Sadler, Falling Skies Colin Cunningham, and Ode to Billie Joe Glynnis O'Connor are now in the Hub City.

Though many might wonder what exactly is it that attracts the actors to this film.

"It was the writing,” said Sadler. “The writing was really good."

“The script was wonderful,” said Cunningham.