re: The official Education rankings are out

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Is there any literature trying to justify that system?

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Yeah. There were some shitty studies that came out several decades back. I think they were funded in part by the curriculum companies.

It was an attractive narrative to teachers and educators. “Literacy isn’t one size fits all.”

There’s a decent podcast on the topic called “Sold a Story.”

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here we go again. can’t help yourself.

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mass migration is killing us

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Think about how bad it would be if we weren't full of Indians and Chinese to bring the average up.

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You know exactly what it means. Making excuses for certain demographics and pretending these obvious patterns don't exist won't make the problem any better, no matter how good it makes liberals feel.

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Oh, so when you only look at white kids?

And there is no way this could possibly be seen as evidence of systemic racism. It's because melanin and intellect have an inverse relationship, right?

Here's an article about what Mississippi did:

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In 2013, Mississippi implemented a multifaceted strategy for enhancing kindergarten to third grade literacy. The Literacy-Based Promotion Act focuses on early literacy and teacher development. It includes teacher training in proven reading instruction methods and teacher coaching.

It includes provisions for reading coaches, parent communication, individual reading plans and other supportive measures. It also includes targeted support for struggling readers. Students repeat the third grade if they fail to meet reading standards.

That’s because early reading is a foundational skill that helps develop the ability to read at grade level by the end of third grade. It also leads to general academic success, graduating from high school prepared for college, and becoming productive adults less likely to fall into poverty.

The program costs $32 per student.

Louisiana is now ranked higher than Texas

I do actually believe there is so truth to SFP's claim that COVID did a number on blue states. But its still notable that the states that were 49th and 50th in education for so long have made some significant strides.

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People on the reservation would rather live exactly like they live before they allow any input from Outsiders

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In the late 90's I did computer work on the Navajo reservation in western New Mexico. Driving around the reservation, most of the government provided houses had fairly large fenced in back yards with farm animals including horses. I noticed a good portion of those fenced in areas had refrigerators with the doors off on their back being used as water troughs. I asked a local that we worked with about that and he said the government won't buy a water trough, but they will buy a new refrigerator. The residents would intentionally break their refrigerator so they wouldn't have to buy a water trough.

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I’m from New Mexico and there’s no way we rank 51 out of all 52 US states.

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don't sell yourself short kid, new mexico is a real schit stain of state.

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Texas 36

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My property taxes tell me, Texas should be in the top 3.