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[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would like to know what’s the influence of first generation immigration in these charts, because the states are kind of shit at reporting that.

My kids speak Spanish. They can read in both Spanish and English, but they learned Spanish first, so it took them a while to catch up in English. Many of their classmates come from Spanish speaking families, English is their second language, and they have a bit more of trouble. The issue here is that state level standardized testing doesn’t seem to care about Spanish at all, so you may find a bunch of very smart kids who score below average just because they speak more than one language, which is frankly insane.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Something like 22% of the US speaks something other than English at home. I wonder how this plays a role. I have no data beyond this, but it's just something I've wondered about.

My kids district is a diverse one, I think white is just barely the majority, and it's a real smattering of all sorts otherwise. There are a lot of kids who come from parents who clearly speak no English. And so when test results come out, they don't look great for the school, but it's kinda like no shit, we have kids learning English for the first time, of course they won't test well.

So for this reason, I see how my kids are doing, I read with them, I do math with them, and if things seem good then they seem good, and I'm not personally going to stress over test score trends schoolwide, and certainly not statewide or nationally.

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[–] angband@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about the other 12 states?

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, MS and LA were #50 and #49 in all of these kinds of lists. It amazes me to see all these other states racing to tank their scores down to the bottom.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just the way the politicians like it...

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By saying "politicians" you assume Bernie Sanders and Mette Frederiksen is the same as Viktor Orban and Donald Trump.

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Hey good for Mississippi!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

NJ again lowkey goated

Damn, New Mexico is really eating shit huh? Wonder why it's so bad there specifically.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

NM is one of the poorest states in the country. With no real major cities, there’s a lack of opportunity. Also, the eastern counties are as red as rural Texas.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it has been for like 20+years, thats around the time they were giving participation grades for people to pass HS. with AI/ absent parenting it has only gotten worst. likewise with mathematics too. and people doing arithmetic courses in cc is a sign, eventhough its not as useful as algebra anyways.

[–] Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yes I'm sure it's those and unrelated to chronic under funding, under staffing, and socioeconomic decline.

The horror stories about common core are evangelical right wing propaganda in their war on pubic education. They still teach algebra in K-12.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Besides flaws in supposed more modern methods of teaching (personally I fucking hate rote memorization, it is boring), too many distractions aka entertainment options more than ever. Especially on mobile devices.

And then you have the looming gap between the haves and the have-nots, and the have-nots are being taken advantage of by not opposing the system that's oppressing them, such as deliberately making them unlearned.

Only fanatical bookworms do visit book fairs and defend public libraries from being dismantled.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

I wonder if it is scored the same now as it was in 2015. That is because a lot of state exams where I studied are scored by percentile, so that the same result would get different scores in different years

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So what kind of abbreviation standard are they going for? It doesn't seem in any way consistent or helpful.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Impressive that Arkansas and Kansas aren't even on the list. They must be down wherever Mississippi, Louisiana and Hawaii came from.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (15 children)
[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I showed this graphic my wife, her response was chromebooks. She was a teacher through this timeframe and in 2015 was the period where laptops became 1 to 1 for her school.

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[–] pno2nr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now show the chart of tik tok user growth.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

In Oregon some of ours are so bad its inspired Pencil to run for governor

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5781255/oregon-reading-education-governor-pencil

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