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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those school systems have posted gains in elementary reading and math proficiency by a 'return to basics' model including intensive outreach and refusal to advance children who don't meet 3rd grade standards on an end of year assessment. These are important considerations for any school district, but to my knowledge, they haven't yet impacted high school graduation rates in those states (which are still far behind the DC metro area). Also, the cost of implementing those same types of staffing and supports in this region would be met with massive public resistance (sadly).[/quote]

The easiest way to boost high school graduation rates is to mail every eighteen year old a diploma. Yay! Now they all have high school diplomas! Education has been fixed.

Please reconsider your metrics for success.

Anyway, Mississippi has mostly been leveraging existing resources; while it is definitely cheaper to hire and less costly to build, they are also much much poorer. Therefore, many of the reforms they've made are more administratively difficult than pricey to implement. The state got deeply involved in the nitty gritty of the curricula taught by their education schools, put science of reading questions on the licensure exam, etc. [/quote]

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