Congrats to Mississippi on making progress on literacy. Nice to hear some good news about education for a change.

@alphaomega8373

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Hide your Dr. Seuss books.

@gettyyoung46

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From Mississippi of all places. Pre K-12 where US should focus, not college. This is where the country will get the best return on investment and make the most impact on those at the bottom 50% of America.

Thank you Amanpour & Co. for this wonderful story.

From Michigan -- THANK YOU All for what you are doing! Much love Human Family!

When u educate a society, the sky is the limit for them. These kids are going to change Mississippi in the next 30 years

@faithcyan2462

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Uh, no they are not. Parents teach their kids to walk and talk while teachers teach them to sit down and shut up.

Early childhood education is significant to child learning and intellectual development. Universal Pre-K helps children learn well from the beginning and stay in school and increase high school graduation rates.

@kathryngeen1447

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And, there is evidence to back that up!

We love you Dr. Burke and thank you Mr. Kristof for your excellent reporting!

What a great bit of news and a massive accomplishment. Hats off to the honesty as well as the humbleness of these two. Of course Michelle is an amazing interviewer and I am so happy to hear this great news. Whaddayah know. It works to build solid infrastructure. Also to always work across the aisle. Brava y bravo. 👏👏👏👏👏

So inspiring!

When the bar in laying on the ground, theres no where else to go but up.

Good stuff 😊

Effective investment in early childhood education is one very important key to successful educational outcomes.

"NOW" is the favorite word of pop journalists all over America.

Nice one, MS! This is a good sign for the US finally affording more upward mobility. I've lived in several countries and the inequality here in the US is not amazing. Here's to a better future!

Great interview!

reading is fundamental.

Kymyona Burk is beautiful

I moved to MIssissippi from the North and all I found were solutions to the deep problems. The first place to start is Mississippi. You go there and interview black American teachers and black American students. White MIssissippi doesn’t want to solve black American poverty and black poor performance. If you look at the state as two different states, Black Mississippi and white Mississippi, then you see two vastly different economic stories. Whites to very well economically on the whole, while black Americans are some of the worst off in “black states.” This is NOT an accident but a political condition caused by having an one-party autocratic state until 1964, when only party got elected and only party was on the ticket for over 80 years. When you don’t understand (white) autocracy, the absence of democracy, then you can’t see the solutions. Democracy did NOT exist. It was not “Jim Crow”, that’s just a polite way to ignore the real label that the federal government allowed: white autocracy, White dictatorship.

first state lead effort means something gets done instead of nothing getting done, natural improvement if state cares, which is what the left and right efforts show to be at odds. Need state involvements and focus on the people in the state, everything will improve with investment.

about ten states fought over last place, same 10 states, I never heard the thank god for MS... because I saw for myself the different statistics listings.

I would love to know the number of students that have repeated grades.

Why don't all these 'special interest groups' pressure their local senators to put forward bills to raise the salaries of TEACHERS instead of monitoring them, sabotaging their curriculum and stressing kids out. If politicians are visiting schools, take a notepad and get an actual list from a teacher, go to the local store and use your coffee money and lunch budget to fill up an actual shopping cart. The money goes further at the dollar store. Take public transport or get on a city or school bus, gas is expensive and some kids walk to school. Show up and see what the real problems are in education. Direct problem solved without all the rhetoric. Show up for a class field trip. Put a few officers on the beat to ensure kids get to school safely, stop hurting children and the people who they spend their days with for 18 years+.

I hope that these encouraging results are legit and not attained via grade inflation and/or equitable grading.

Transgender students would not agree. 😢

Mississippi has more prized literary and songwriting authors than just about any state in this Union. She has always been very literate and their are fantastic numbers of everyday people that outperform academically. Stop this misguided equation that Mississippians can't read! This state champions ferociously for early childhood literary since the 1960s and will continue to do so. Yes, yall come visit the Mississippi Book Festival 2023 it's off the hook!

US National office of Ed? Cindy and Staci? Are you paying attention? Director of Literacy in 1999, TOTAL FAIL. Accountability! Ha, these two gals are tippy top at the DOE. Joke!

Problems in the US public education system are not fully realized in these early grades. Our 3rd and 4th grade students are not that far behind comparable aged students in other advanced nations. However, as our students advance through the higher grades, they fall further and further behind their international peers. There could be a number of reasons for that. Some possibles include 1. Schools being more and more focused on non-core academics in the higher grades. They start with all the sociopolitical indoctrination and sexual content. This leaves less instructional time left to teach the three "R's" that the students still need. 2. Teacher education levels become less and less adequate to teach students at higher grade levels. Most teachers have relatively poor test scores and are rarely high academic performers themselves. This is less of a factor when you're teaching 8 year-olds as opposed to 14-16 year-olds. 3. As students advance, here appears to be a concerted attempt to sidetrack them from unbiased critical thinking and force them onto predetermined ideological tracks.

@DarrickMcGill

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Most every other country tracks at the late jr high level. Thus, we’re comparing to their university bound cohort versus our total population & many fewer “drop out” today than in the past. Been to any HS graduation lately & you’ll notice the multiple HS graduation tracks with differing standards to accommodate prep AND workforce bound students!

@TomdeSabla

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@@DarrickMcGill bull. You never heard of timss? Grad rates are higher because we pass every body and graduate everybody Public education in the US has declined for decades. In blue cities we graduate functional illiterates

@DarrickMcGill

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@@TomdeSabla US is well above average according to TIMMS, which reinforces my point! Thanks for the lift!

@TomdeSabla

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@@DarrickMcGill Well above average? Ha ha. You're easily satisfied aren't you? Why shouldn't we be number one dude? "Above average" also requires context. Above average? Sure. Once you include Brazil and Kyrgyzstan and Haiti and Botswana and Laos we're above average. Among nations like China, South Korea, India, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, Taiwan Russia etc, we are not average. We are behind all of them. Try looking at SAT scores over time. Multidecadal declines here in the US. Indian students who come here for college don't even have to study their first year because they already covered that stuff in high school. Get yourself educated...on public education in the US dude. Try reading Inside Education by Thomas Sowell

@DarrickMcGill

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@@TomdeSabla So we should do tracking like peer OECD countries do? One can honestly argue some positions, but the reality for America is we’ve treaded water in academic performance while other countries have invested in deeper learning for a smaller increment of their populations. As a country we chafe at human capital investments unlike most of the countries ahead of us on those lists. Take care of people better & we do better relatively. Though this video points to relative improvements even without fully solving the poverty issue…

Okay so quit beating around the bush and tells how Mississippi improved all these things. Meanwhile later in the piece....