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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For anyone interested, here is a more realistic view of the scores:

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=NP&chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=&st=MN&year=2024R3

As you can see, Virginia as a whole did quite well. This is about Virginia, not Northern Virginia.[/quote]

Virginia didn't do well. In reading Miss, Florida, Louisiana and Maryland all did better.

Reading Scores
Mass.         225 
Mississipi.   219
Florida       218
Lousiana.   216
Maryland    216
Virginia      214
Texas        212
California   212
Oregon      207

Mississippi is in the top 10 states now in reading by teaching Reading well using the science of literacy AND holding back third graders who can not read. Those third graders then state law says they MUST receive intensive reading intervention based on the science of reading with progress monitoring to make sure they learn how to read.  The retention treatment is designed to specifically address their needs.

Schools love talking about equity, but teaching a student to read is the most equitable thing a school can do. For all the money schools spend on different programs and services, nothing is more important than making sure kids can read yet schools consistently fail to teach all students to read year after year.

This leads to students feeling awful about going to school and too many kids who can't read become behavior problems because they struggle so much. Who wouldn't be angry about having to go to a place where they struggled and were behind year after year. Imagine sitting there and the schedule of what the class is doing all day is written on the board so you can't read it. You ask the teacher if there is PE or art and the teacher is annoyed and says it is on the board. You know how to solve a math problem but you have to do word problems so can't do your math.

The most equitable thing schools could do is to retain students in third grade who can't read. Studies are coming out that show students who are retained in third grade and get reading intervention vs those that go on who are low do much better in 6th grade.

Florida, TX and Miss did better than Virginia in Math

Math Scores
Connecticut 246
Florida        243
Texas         241
Mississipi.   239
Virginia      238
Lousiana.   235
Maryland   234
California   233
Oregon     229[/quote]

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