I am not ready to believe that Mississippi has one of the best education systems in the U.S. but that's the proposition being advanced here by consultant (TNTP, EdNavigator) Tim Daly. Looking through his previous work (his newsletter started in 2023) gives us the argument: if you look only at traditionally low-achieving students from lower demographics, then Mississippi performs better than schools in, say, New Jersey. "School rankings should be more like Olympic diving," he explains. "How would that work? Compare the degree of difficult to the result." And so for Mississippi. "The Urban Institute adjusted national test results for student demographics," and Mississippi began to rank first in eighth grade reading and math.
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