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[quote=Anonymous]Y'all should read a bit about what Mississippi has done. DC is all about dumbing everything down in schools to the lowest possible common denominator in the name of equity. Mississippi did the opposite. They said poverty is no excuse and declared that any third grader who can't pass a reading test automatically fails third grade. The result has been dubbed the "Mississippi Miracle." The New York Times: ....“Mississippi is a huge success story and very exciting,” David Deming, a Harvard economist and education expert, told me. What’s so significant, he said, is that while Mississippi hasn’t overcome poverty or racism, it still manages to get kids to read and excel. “You cannot use poverty as an excuse. That’s the most important lesson,” Deming added.... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/opinion/mississippi-education-poverty.html [/quote]
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