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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like in Oklahoma where all schools have a copy of Trump's Bible (made in China), or in Mississippi (or was it Alabama?) where they have to display the 10 Commandments?

2 excellent examples of public education at its finest 🤣[/quote]

Oklahoma and Mississippi being bastions of excellent public education. Ha ha. [/quote]

Can't speak to Oklahoma, but Mississippi has a fair claim to be the best run state in the USA, as far as public education is concerned. The "Mississippi miracle" has seen their test scores shoot up from worst in the country to somewhere in the middle, with little change to either demographics or economics. They've done yeoman's work fixing up e.g. basic literacy programs, including restructuring the teacher pipeline to properly support them. It's well worth reading about, if you get the chance.[/quote]

+1.

I have been shocked, after watching Mississippi educational success rank either 49 or 50 out of 50 states for my whole life, until very recently.  Mississippi actually led the way in restoring sane reading curriculum - the whole “Science of Reading” movement gathered steam when Mississippi adopted it and saw dramatic statewide improvement in reading attainment.[/quote]

I haven't looked into the specifics but usually this type of thing is a sham where they just kick out kids who aen't performing in order to improve their standing.[/quote]

Mississippi Miracle poster from above: I  did look at it. There is some effect because Mississippi is having very behind students repeat grades (*) instead of simply passing them along, but the numbers of grade repeaters are not nearly high enough to account for the majority of the gains, and further there has been a large increase in the advanced (**) category, and an additional year is not going to move a failing student to advanced. It does look like the gains are real.

(*) The students don't just repeat the grade, but are provided with a lot of additional support.

(**) I can't remember the exact verbiage the NAEP uses for advanced; this is something I last dove into about two years ago.[/quote]

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