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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

The Hechinger Report

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. And third-grade reading scores — the best predictor of future academic success — have also fallen precipitously.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

More than 3,000 of Mississippi’s kindergarteners, or 9 percent, were unable to move on to first grade for the 2019 school year, more than three times the percentage of children nationally who repeated kindergarten in 2014. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Readiness crisis. Skeptics remain.