Department of Education going back to work
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Anonymous
Yep, and maybe the teachers will get back the right to slap kids' hands with rulers again because it builds character. |
Anonymous
Yep, no explanation. No law. Just doing the bidding of their fellow partisans. No one wonder no one trusts them. |
Anonymous
Mississipi has drastically improved their reading scores by following the science of reading philosophy several years ago while the Dept of Education has been promoting balanced literacy for years and years up until the past year. According to the Nations Report Card https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=NP&chort=1&sub=RED&sj=&st=MN&year=2024R3 in reading for 4th grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) the average score for 4th grade reading was 214. Mississippi's 4th graders were tied for 7th at 219. Maryland was at 216. Highest scores: Massachusetts 225 Wyoming 222 New Jersey 222 New Hampshire 221 Colorado 221 Indiana 220 Utah 219 Connecticut 219 Mississippi 219 Florida 218 Kentucky 218 Lowest scores: Arkansas 210 Maine 210 Delaware 210 District of Columbia 209 Michigan 209 Arizona 208 Oklahoma 207 Oregon 207 West Virginia 206 Alaska 202 New Mexico 201 In Math for 4th graders the average score was 237. Mississippi's score (239) was higher than Maryland's score (234). Maryland was below the average. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
So then it looks like we should all welcome lower school taxes. Is Mississippi just proving we’re all spending too much in wealthier states? |
Anonymous
Our enemies are in giggling fits. |
Anonymous
We need to cut the red states off from the sweet blue state welfare. We need to make the blue states great again. |
Anonymous
Test scores certainly plummeted since the Dept of Education was instituted. |
Anonymous
Question for those who know - Did states test their students prior to the establishment of the DOE? Did it even matter to most back in let’s say, the late 1800s, if you made it past the 8th grade, as long as you could read your paycheck and the Bible? It mattered if you were from a well-off educated family of course, but for the unwashed masses, literacy was a nice thing to aim for if you didn’t have to get to work by age 10. |
Anonymous
They only lifted a stay. The merits of the case have yet to be decided. |
Anonymous
Those lower scores are partly due to the fact that we now try to educate, evaluate, and support all children. Ma y of them used to remain at home, lived in institutions, dropped out of school, or were not tested for academic progress |
Anonymous
I would love to see per pupil expenditures adjusted for teachers cost of living by state. |
Anonymous
Many US students take out $20-30-40k of FED LOANS over the course of their education that they dutifully pay back. The media focuses on crazy stories with students graduating $100 in debt (prob private debt) but the average FED LOAN student loan debt in 2024 was $38k. I graduated with more than that 30 years prior and paid off every dime while buying a house, raising a kid, paying taxes, etc. That money was the difference between me going to college or not. This issue is more nuanced tjan you seem to think. Maybe you should go after private loans? |
Anonymous
This is actually quite remarkable since Mississippi has a high percentage of black kids. Most of the high scoring states in that list have very few black students. Mississippi and Florida must be doing some things right to still have decent average test scores despite a large black population. |
Anonymous
NWEA testing started before the Department of Education existed as a separate entity from Health, Education, and Welfare. It doesn't show test scores "plummeting" though: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/?age=9 |