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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Certain states have formally brought back recitation so can look up Georgia, Arkansas dept of education as examples for what they have kids do at each grade level in ES (different poems/speeches at different ages, etc). Also lots of articles about benefit of recitation and how it maps the brains.

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Neither Georgia or Arkansas has a strong public education system.   I wouldn’t model anything on them.  [/quote]

DP. Sure they didn't have a strong education system. But it turns out a lot of these places cheerfully jumped on things like the science of reading bandwagon long before the blue states and their test scores are going up. Obviously education can only do so much to compensate for things like SES, though.[/quote]

Something is working for Georgia. From Sept 2024 report, National Merit Semifinalists for GA= 624 from 126 schools, for VA = 394 for 110 schools (so not all from 1 school for either state- not all TJ or all prep school). Qualifying index 222 of VA, 218 for GA so if want to argue it’s only bc index lower can, but my I do buy into brain mapping and firing those neurons to exercise the brain when little being good- whether by learning instrument, physical exercise, memory games, recitation or all of the above. End of day for me though is making sure is fun and spending time with DS/DD. That’s really what they will remember. So not just shoving them in front of a screen to robot learn and parrot list of facts.[/quote]

Overall Georgia public schools K-12 are ranked 36 out of the 50 states. This is based on reading and math scores in elementary school, ACT scores, percent graduating high school and money spent on schools.

Interesting is when you account for states public universities the Southern states do much better.  Maybe it’s all that football and basketball money but blue states don’t spend as much on higher education.   New Hampshire students in K-12 are always in the top ten for high scores in academics  but their state universities are in the bottom ten. [/quote]

Money spent on schools shouldn’t be part of the metric. Georgia does more with while spending fewer dollars per student. [/quote]

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