Urban institute study has Louisiana 2nd in nation in 4th grade reading scores, behind MS

Like affirmative action for test scores, lol. The poor Asians are always punished.

Ugh. Always 2nd place to MS.
We can do better!

Per Grok

It means they tweak the raw NAEP scores to account for factors like poverty rates, race, and ethnicity, so you’re not just comparing apples to oranges across states. Kids from different backgrounds-like low-income or minority students-tend to score lower due to systemic issues, so adjusting isolates how well schools are teaching reading, regardless of who’s sitting in the classroom. Makes the rankings fairer for spotting actual education quality.

[I said that’s racist]

Not at all-it’s the opposite. Adjusting for demographics tries to strip out unfair biases like poverty or systemic racism that drag down scores for certain groups, so you can judge schools on their teaching, not on who they serve. Without it, you’d punish states with diverse, disadvantaged kids and overpraise ones with wealthier, whiter populations. The goal’s equity, not ignoring race-it’s acknowledging it hurts performance so we can focus on solutions.

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Kids from different backgrounds-like low-income or minority students-tend to score lower due to systemic issues

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No. They score lower because they cant read good

What kind of retard bullshite is demographically adjusted

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What kind of retard bullshite is demographically adjusted

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Assume demographic group A consistently performs at a certain level and group B consistently performs lower than that. If state 1’s population is 85% A and 15% B, while state 2 is 55% A and 45% B, which would have better overall scores?

The “adjustment” compares how A compares to A and B compares to B across states, and ranks accordingly.

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It’s so states with lots of blacks don’t get penalized

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Some bleeding hearts came up with a method of measuring education that’s based on certain races being dumber than others? Classic

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Adjusting for demographics tries to strip out unfair biases like poverty or systemic racism that drag down scores for certain groups, so you can judge schools on their teaching, not on who they serve
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Such a word salad to say “take out the black kids”

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So blacks get their scores bumped up 20% in the name of equity?

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It compares apples to apples.

Poor blacks in one state are compared to poor blacks in other states. If 30% of a state is made up of poor blacks, obviously they will score worse than a state that is only 1% poor blacks. So when you compare the poor blacks in each state, regardless of their varying population sizes, you get a clearer picture of which state is actually teaching kids better.

A wealthy white state like Vermont is going to score better without adjustment than Louisiana or Mississippi just due to demographics.

But if you say, let’s compare our poor blacks to your poor blacks and our poor whites to your poor whites and our wealthy whites to your wealthy whites, etc, you can really see which states are teaching the kids better.

And as it turns out, Mississippi and Louisiana are doing a better job teaching the kids that they have in their state than most other states do at teaching theirs.