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Mississippi maintains its national ranking in education at 16th for second straight year
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:11 am
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:11 am
This is surreal. As someone that has seen the growth over the past 13 years, the goal was to be middle of the pack in the Southeast, which would have been somewhere around 40th.
Its amazing what accountability can do.
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:13 am to anc
IIRC, isn’t it due to the Delta area not being absolutely godawful anymore, raising their floor significantly?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:14 am to anc
How was this accomplished? Texas has decided to try to systematically destroy their public school system, so I am curious about success stories.
You mentioned accountability. What were the keys?
Was funding a big component?
Edit - and congratulations
You mentioned accountability. What were the keys?
Was funding a big component?
Edit - and congratulations
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 9:15 am
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:14 am to anc
This is amazing considering all the enrichment you have in Mississippi. Well done.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:15 am to anc
Congratulations Mississippi, hope the rest of the USA adopts your program. It is incredible how much progress has been made in such a short period of time.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:20 am to Boss13
That’s great, but I don’t trust any of these rankings since school districts nationwide continue to graduate classes where 50% of students can’t read, write, and do math at a 9th grade level.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:21 am to anc
I always wonder what these rankings and statistics would show if you removed the impoverished black population data from the deep south.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:21 am to AGGIES
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You mentioned accountability. What were the keys?
Holding kids back in 3rd grade if they cant read, and some other things related to the state taking over local school boards if standards weren't met...plus a move back to phonics...there are some other things but those are the big hitters.
Some other states have attempted the MS system but havent quiet replicated the results because they didnt implement the full package of changes like MS did.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:22 am to bluestem75
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That’s great, but I don’t trust any of these rankings since school districts nationwide continue to graduate classes where 50% of students can’t read, write, and do math at a 9th grade level.
I may be wrong so please dont crucify me, but I believe I read that one of the reason Mississippi has improved so much is because they are keeping kids back in the lower grades to ensure they have the foundation in place to move forward.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:25 am to bluestem75
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That’s great, but I don’t trust any of these rankings since school districts nationwide continue to graduate classes where 50% of students can’t read, write, and do math at a 9th grade level.
A better response might have been to actually check the percentage of graduates in Mississippi thatcan read, write, and do math at a 9th grade level and compare that to the national average.
Rejecting it outright based on the reason you claimed seems more like a Louisiana educated response.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:25 am to Boss13
Basically Mississippi went from "No child left behind" to "We'll retain until they can pass the test." They haven't gotten more effective at teaching literacy as much as they no longer push along students that would endanger their reading test scores.
What you'll see if you dig past the PR statistics is a larger percentage of older students taking the 3rd-4th grade reading test than intended.
What you'll see if you dig past the PR statistics is a larger percentage of older students taking the 3rd-4th grade reading test than intended.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:26 am to Boss13
My cousin just quit teaching high school in CT (#2 in rankings) because she couldn’t discipline kids or make them do work in any meaningful way, so I’m very very suspicious of any of these kind of rankings.
One of my good friends teaches in the History department at LSU and the horror stories she tells me of how much these students want freebies and extra credit would astound you.
One of my good friends teaches in the History department at LSU and the horror stories she tells me of how much these students want freebies and extra credit would astound you.
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 9:28 am
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:27 am to gaetti15
Gotcha. It required all of the above, not just a partial implementation…
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:29 am to AGGIES
They did two things:
1. Rejected 15 years of propaganda and reinstated a phonics based curriculum to teach primary school students how to read.
2. No kids are allowed to progress beyond 4th grade until they can read at grade level. No “social promotion”, they just get routed to intervention to improve literacy and repeat the grade.
1. Rejected 15 years of propaganda and reinstated a phonics based curriculum to teach primary school students how to read.
2. No kids are allowed to progress beyond 4th grade until they can read at grade level. No “social promotion”, they just get routed to intervention to improve literacy and repeat the grade.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:31 am to AGGIES
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How was this accomplished?
Easy. Pass everybody regardless of how smart they are and call it " no child left behind". Then call anyone who disagrees with it racist. Then gloat about how successful you are.
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 10:15 am
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:33 am to Boss13
quote:My DIL teaches in an under served school due to loan payback etc., and I know they were requiring reading proficiency at 3rd grade as a 3rd grader or they wouldn't let them go to the 4th. The numbers being held back have dropped drastically over the last 10 years or so. Maybe that is emphasis to the kids (and families) to better in later years as well. I think I got all of that right but it's been a while.
I may be wrong so please dont crucify me, but I believe I read that one of the reason Mississippi has improved so much is because they are keeping kids back in the lower grades to ensure they have the foundation in place to move forward.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:35 am to AGGIES
1. A hyper focus on reading from K-3rd grade. Reading is the foundation and it was not being taught properly. There was too much focus on sight words (kids can just memorize what a word looks like) and the Mississippi plan returned to a Phonics-based learning system.
2. This plan was backed up by a third grade reading gate. Every child in MS is tested at the end of third grade and they have to be able to read at grade level to advance to fourth grade. They get several chances. The first tests were around a 72% pass rate and now its close to 90%.
So now you have fourth graders that can read, so now you can effectively teach them other skills including math.
3. An accountability system for school districts. If they fail our children, the state has the ability to take over a district. It has happened a few times, but notably, the Jackson School District met the threshold for state takeover and the state declined to take over (it was during peak woke and the racist mayor that is about to go to federal trial was screaming racism and the state backed down). Still, it has helped some school districts.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:36 am to anc
Louisiana people are dumb, they vote for people like Jeff Landry. They’ll never replicate Mississippi’s success. Good for Mississippi.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:37 am to anc
Makes me want to move back to my hometown of Ocean Springs
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:41 am to SparkyWilson
Both of my children graduated from OSHS - my son three weeks ago. I know how well the school does academically, but I am still sometimes surprised. In a graduating class of 460-470, they had over 70 students in the 30+ club for ACT. Around 260 of the graduating class was Honors or High Honors.
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