re: Mississippi maintains its national ranking in education at 16th for second straight year

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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.

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Correcting a problem early is way more resource efficient that doing it later. If the problem is that simple to solve, there is no reason for the education shite show going on in America right now.

Mississippi also moved back to phonics based teaching and has a reading specialist assigned to every school.

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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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Very similar at Madison Central. My daughter in a class of 450 was ranked 112th with a 4.0 GPA (97+), National Honor Society, 32 ACT and a good scholarship to Georgia Tech.

The problem Mississippi needs to tackle now is the Brain Drain. Nearly 60% of our best and brightest are leaving the state by the time they turn 24. All this improvement will be for naught if we only have the lower quartile to work and reproduce.

My oldest daughter graduated from Georgia Tech and moved to Charlotte. My youngest wants to go to Charleston. Its a unique problem that Mississippi has. The rest of the South has desirable places to live (Nashville, Charlotte) and places that attract college grads (Huntsville, Chattanooga, Greenville)

*adjusted for race

Could the lack of funding for Chromebook induced brainrot be an actual advantage?