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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .[/quote]

What a joke.[/quote]

Relocated to a southern state. Schools were open. Kids excelled.[/quote]

That I doubt. Southern states’ public schools generally lag way behind the rest of the nation.[/quote]

+1,000. If you’re actually comparing to the bulk of “Southern states’ public schools” and not cherry picking my the wealthiest suburbs in Texas or Florida. [/quote]

DP but when DC people move south, we go to the rich areas.  Other, poorer school systems are as relevant as Baltimore is to you. We moved south and the schools are much better, by all objective measures. The fact that the schools in backwater Arkansas suck is irrelevant. [/quote]

Southern states are always at the bottom for public education at least by any objective measure, but whatever you got to tell yourself. Most of the right-wingnuts are already delusional.[/quote]

The urban institute actual looks at NAEP scores and normalizes them based on student demographics.  I.e. comparing middle class white students in one state against middle-class students in another state, poor asians vs poor asians.  It's apples vs. apples.  When this is done the outcomes look a bit different:

https://apps.urban.org/features/naep/

Florida and Texas do well in almost all of them.  The clear take away from the NAEP data is that we should follow the model from Massachusetts; they do well across the board.   From an Atlantic article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/what-are-massachusetts-public-schools-doing-right/483935/

"The Massachusetts experiment with transforming public education traces back to 1993, when state leaders decided to set high standards, establish a stringent accountability system aimed at ensuring that students from all backgrounds were making progress, and open its doors to charter schools."

So, [b]exactly the opposite of what Maryland decided to do.[/b]

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+1,000[/quote]

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