- psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish15 minutes
Impressive that Arkansas and Kansas aren’t even on the list. They must be down wherever Mississippi, Louisiana and Hawaii came from.
2 hoursI count 38 states. Looks like South Carolina and North Dakota is missing at least.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish2 hours
yeah kinda wierd it has a spot for dc. so its like are these the worst or the best or what.
- SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Soon in the red states, it will be a badge of honor to be illiterate. Tr*mp loves the poorly educated bigly.
- 4 hours
I wish I could remember the quote instead of my shitty paraphrase “These people act like education is a trap they avoided, instead of something they failed”
- lad@programming.devEnglish2 hours
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
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
The GOP welcomes their future voters. The dumber they are, the better for Republican votes.
“Video is the future. If it’s not on youtube, people don’t care.”
Reaping what the internet has been sowing for the past decade.
- psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish13 minutes
There actually are a lot of good educational resources on Youtube right now. I feel like they probably aren’t among the popular channels.
- bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 hours
Fun fact on why Missisipi, of all the places, improved: they introduced a law that a child cannot be promoted to next year if they do not pass reading proficiency test.
Who knew the shame of repeating a year can be motivator enough for kids and parents.
it’s more than that: they’ve been hiring literacy coaches to sit in on and improve literacy classes across the state and rating schools while double-counting the performance of the bottom 25%. plus lots of testing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/podcasts/the-daily/mississippi-schools-test-scores.html
- 4 hours
Decades of studies have shown that retention, repeating grades, is not beneficial for any stakeholder.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish1 hour
Well schools have been forcing teachers to pass failing students for at least a decade now, and look at how that’s going.
- ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
My state repealed a law a few years ago that required holding kids back who failed the 3rd grade test.
Regular readers of /r/teachers are not surprised. Teachers have been sounding the alarm for decades, as they still are.
Also, if you love your kid, you’ll teach them to read. I mean books, real books, long books, no pictures, “chapter books” (which was a term I’d never heard till recently. Because, of course, books have chapters, why would one need to differentiate between… oh.) Read to them, read with them, talk about books with them, take them to the library, and take them to the book store. Give them books as presents.
- 9 hours
The uneducated don’t ask questions or suspect they’re being taken advantage of. This is by design.
- osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish59 minutes
I’m dumb and poorly educated, but i still don’t like dumpy mcshitpants.
- someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
When I was in junior high they decided we weren’t reading enough. So for 40 minutes or so after lunch we had a reading period where everyone just read novels. Might be a good idea again.
- osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish1 hour
when i was in school, we called it the USSR period. Uninterrupted silent substantial reading. we’d literally just read whatever we felt like for an hour.
- 4 hours
All of the schools around where I live had SSR (Sustained Silent Reading). It’s pretty beneficial for students. You always get the morons who do everything they can to not read, but it helps most other people.
Sometimes I wonder if we should have a “learn to read” community where we post an article or short stories or excerpts of longer works with some comprehension questions and discuss in the comments. Where discussing what you think about a headline or article is forbidden and only discussion about what it actually says is allowed.
- jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish7 hours
Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool
Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.
Also there’s a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like “it’s just a story it doesn’t have any deeper meaning!”. Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don’t find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)
- techt@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Just speaking for myself, but even though I don’t “need” help I still feel my literacy becoming more siloed and my patience for reading reducing over time, so a community for collaborative/social reading would be motivating for me. Plus I have friends and family who could use the same encouragement or examples of what to read, so I’d participate for the inspo.
- jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish5 hours
Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I’m not sure how to level it up from “we’re reading this” to include “and we did some critical analysis”. Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don’t understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that’s entirely about thinking.
A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it’s on hiatus.
- techt@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Good suggestion, thanks. Honestly I haven’t looked very hard, I would probably enjoy a book club. In Lemmy form I like the idea of a rotating crew of participants with a few regulars, and that it’s not strictly books though I’m sure some book clubs probably feature short stories or articles too.
Only if there are no paywalls or surveillance crap on the articles posted there
Paywalls are easy; avoiding surveillance would be extremely difficult.
Per the article:
The data includes third- through eighth-grade test scores for districts in 40 states and the District of Columbia, as of the end of last school year. It accounts for about 68 percent of U.S. school districts nationwide. (Ten states were excluded, among them New York and Illinois, because of high opt-out rates or noncomparable data.)
Oddly, only 38 states + DC in the graphic shared here
- 7 hours
If they could read, they’d probably be really mad about that.
- 6 hours
Yeah, there are 39 entries here by my count, for 50 States + DC. 12 states are missing.
Perhaps they didn’t have access to data for these states? Perhaps the graph would be a bit different with them included? I do not know.
