Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

Re:Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools by philo_sophia on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:00AM (#43915807)

I think the comments on the article are a fair critique. Notably that this single metric for educational outcome is not as important as the author is suggesting.

Also, Maine has a huge drop on that chart I'm assuming from COVID. I don't think this is southern states catching up. I think it was just them outperforming during COVID potentially. Whether or not that will last, we will see.

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Re:Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools by svachalek on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:06AM (#43915885)

You mean "At the end of the day, it's cognitive ability, not instruction method, that wins the day in the long term."? Which in the context of the comment is just blatant racism wrapped in some kind of incoherent triple redundant wrapper.

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Re:Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools by BugsJustFindMe on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:11AM (#43916751)

There are reasons other than race for some children to do better in school than others.

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