Black children in Mississippi are now performing better in reading and math than black children in New York and California-- despite having much highe

[excalibur]

If money were the solution, this problem would have ended decades ago as we spend about as much on education as the rest of the world combined.

It is teachers and the administrators in schools that suck up so much money. And those teachers often don't care, recall how they sold out the children during Covid.

Black children in Mississippi are now performing better in reading and math than black children in New York and California-- despite having much higher rates of poverty and spending much less per student.

And the secret was simply not allowing children to move up a grade level unless they can read proficiently.

It turns out that when education is prioritized over woke ideology, the outcomes for our kids are better.​

 

[Rambunctious]

I hope blacks realize by now its the blue cities and states that want them to remain stupid and dependant....

 

[Mr. Friscus]

This wouldn’t surprise me. Money doesn’t solve education just like it doesn’t solve parenting.

Democrats just love to throw tons of money at education so that they can funnel the money to other leftist projects and pay themselves bonuses

 

[LeftofLeft]

This hurts the agenda.

 

[Polishprince]

Really shoots to hell the liberal ideas for the schools- raise taxes and bow to Big Labor.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Rando Twitter post, ok.

 

[22lcidw]

Rando Twitter post, ok.

The point is it is time to try something else.

 

[jknowgood]

If money were the solution, this problem would have ended decades ago as we spend about as much on education as the rest of the world combined.

It is teachers and the administrators in schools that suck up so much money. And those teachers often don't care, recall how they sold out the children during Covid.

Black children in Mississippi are now performing better in reading and math than black children in New York and California-- despite having much higher rates of poverty and spending much less per student.​

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And the secret was simply not allowing children to move up a grade level unless they can read proficiently.​

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It turns out that when education is prioritized over woke ideology, the outcomes for our kids are better.​

Because red states don't indocrinte, their children. They teach them the basics.

 

[Truth2Know]

The point is it is time to try something else.

It's not trying something else. It is returning to what has been proven to work.

 

[IM2]

Right-wing whites need to just shut up. We know were the probem is and it is red.

 

[scruffy]

The leftist educational system is disgraceful.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You actually hold them accountable and raise the standards instead of dumbing them down.

Mississippi children who lag or miss school days in some cases are pushed to attend after-school sessions or Saturday school. And if they fail the reading test twice, they are pressed to attend summer school and will get one final chance to pass before fourth grade begins. If they fail that last chance, they normally must repeat third grade.

Mississippi’s early reforms focused on reading, but math scores rose as well: Perhaps when students can read, they enjoy school more and so thrive in other subjects as well.

For anyone familiar with civil rights history, national testing results are astonishing. A Black Mississippi child is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in reading by fourth grade as a Black California child.

Likewise, low-income children are more likely to test proficient in reading in Mississippi or Louisiana than in California, Massachusetts or New York. A low-income fourth grader is almost twice as likely to test proficient at math in Mississippi as in Oregon.

For many years, skeptics have offered dispiriting arguments about the prospects for educational gains: The way to improve literacy is to fix the family, fix addiction, fix the parents, for as long as the child’s environment is broken, there’s not much else that can be done.

The gains in these states suggest that that critique is wrong. Mississippi and Alabama haven’t fixed child poverty, trauma and deeply troubled communities — but they have figured out how to get kids to read by the end of third grade.

These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling

A ray of hope is emerging in American education. Not among Democrats or Republicans, each diverted by culture wars. Not

dnyuz.com

 

[martybegan]

You actually hold them accountable and raise the standards instead of dumbing them down.

Mississippi children who lag or miss school days in some cases are pushed to attend after-school sessions or Saturday school. And if they fail the reading test twice, they are pressed to attend summer school and will get one final chance to pass before fourth grade begins. If they fail that last chance, they normally must repeat third grade.

Mississippi’s early reforms focused on reading, but math scores rose as well: Perhaps when students can read, they enjoy school more and so thrive in other subjects as well.

For anyone familiar with civil rights history, national testing results are astonishing. A Black Mississippi child is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in reading by fourth grade as a Black California child.

Likewise, low-income children are more likely to test proficient in reading in Mississippi or Louisiana than in California, Massachusetts or New York. A low-income fourth grader is almost twice as likely to test proficient at math in Mississippi as in Oregon.

For many years, skeptics have offered dispiriting arguments about the prospects for educational gains: The way to improve literacy is to fix the family, fix addiction, fix the parents, for as long as the child’s environment is broken, there’s not much else that can be done.

The gains in these states suggest that that critique is wrong. Mississippi and Alabama haven’t fixed child poverty, trauma and deeply troubled communities — but they have figured out how to get kids to read by the end of third grade.

These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling

A ray of hope is emerging in American education. Not among Democrats or Republicans, each diverted by culture wars. Not

dnyuz.com

They concentrate on educating, not indoctrinating.

They don't have massive Teacher's Unions dictating means and methods as part of their contracts

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Most black children in California and New York are concentrated in Urban Ghettos. In Mississippi, black children are more spread out throughout the state.

 

[Lisa558]

That’s because while black children in Mississippi are learning the three Rs, black children in California are learning about America being a horrible racist country and that socialism will cure all ills.

 

[Unkotare]

...

They don't have massive Teacher's Unions dictating means and methods as part of their contracts

Unions don't do that.

 

[Unkotare]

...
Perhaps when students can read, they enjoy school more and so thrive in other subjects as well.

...

Students who do well in reading usually do well in all subjects.

 

[Unkotare]

... And those teachers often don't care, recall how they sold out the children during Covid.
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[martybegan]

Unions don't do that.

NYC teachers contract.

STUDENT PATHWAYS INITIATIVE 1. General Guiding Principles: The Student Pathways Initiative will provide a reimagined student experience that creates career-connected learning and pathways for all our students to help activate their passion and sense of purpose and ensures that all students graduate with a strong plan and head start on a pathway to the middle class, including financial literacy and civics skills. The Student Pathways Initiative will reimagine students’ educational experience to be connected to their futures in that students will receive: (a) regular and frequent college and career counseling; (b) opportunity to participate in career-connected learning opportunities, including career readiness skill building and paid internships; (c) early college credits and industry recognized credentials; and (d) individualized postsecondary plans. In addition, this initiative will enhance and expand CTE course offerings and programs. Staff will have an opportunity to participate in (i) targeted professional learning, including industry-based professional development; (ii) the design of career-connected learning programs; and (iii) alternative career pathways.

 

[Unkotare]

NYC teachers contract.

Where does that say, "means and methods"?