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Corinth-Alcorn County News

Corinth-Alcorn Excel By 5 approaching goal: NEMS Daily Journal

By Leana Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH – The Corinth-Alcorn County Excel By 5 program has reached 76 percent completion of certification requirements and is seeking volunteers to help achieve the certification goal by 2014. “Our volunteers will help...

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Excel By 5 Childcare- The Daily Corinthian

Eight local childcare centers have signed on to be part of the Excel By 5 effort to help Alcorn County’s children prepare for kindergarten. “Birth to age five is the most valuable time to prepare our children to enter kindergarten and build a foundation for lifelong...

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Promoting Literacy: The Daily Corinthian

Excel by 5 wants all of Corinth and Alcorn County’s children to be ready to learn to read by the time they are five years old. To promote reading the work toward this mission, volunteers from the group will read Christmas stories to children during Saturday’s Winter...

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Mobile Resource Center at Kids Kountry- The Daily Corinthian

The Excel By 5 Mobile Resource Center recently visited several target communities in the area and daycares who have joined the program, including Kids’ Kountry in Rienzi. Corinth and Alcorn County’s Excel By 5 Coalition is spreading the word about early childhood...

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Lynn Darling in Corinth- The Daily Corinthian

On Saturday a group of preschool teachers and child care providers attended a training session led by one of the state’s foremost authorities on early childhood development. Dr. Lynn Darling, director the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute,...

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Excel By 5 and Kiwanis- The Daily Corinthian

An organization that helps kids recently got some big help from the Corinth Kiwanis. The Corinth/Alcorn County Excel By 5 Coalition is a group that strives to support families of children in their most formative years — birth to five — through family service agencies,...

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Kids Kountry- The Daily Corinthian

Local community and education leaders honored Kids’ Kountry Daycare in Rienzi as Alcorn County’s first Excel by 5 Daycare. Excel by 5 is a community-based certification designed to improve a child’s wellbeing by the age of five. The program emphasizes the important...

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