States Are Learning the Wrong Lesson from the 'Mississippi Miracle'(theatlantic.com)
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States Are Learning the Wrong Lesson from the 'Mississippi Miracle'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/mississippi-education-miracle/686731/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/mississippi-education-miracle/686731/
Apparently the people pushing it attribute the progress to nearly 20 years of the stuff mentioned in the article. Yet that simply doesn't show up in the 8th grade scores.
The people pointing to one specific intervention and an uptick in 4th grade scores can possibly say that the kids fully exposed to it won't have nationally comparable NEAP scores until after this year.
But this author says they are wrong to credit that intervention. But then it's probably on them to explain the lack of benefit for anyone in 8th grade or higher for these wider reforms.
Feels a bit like they're wanting to eat their cake and have it too. Getting the credit for the early years blip but wanting it for all the non early years stuff that apparently has no measurable impact on the scores used to claim credit for the early years.