US Education in rough shape as scores plummet

Thank you for the response.

I agree with your points. I just don’t think that schools have added the remedial resources that will be necessary to catch most of these kids up. Not that any would be able to work miracles but just remediate the damage from the remote learning. I also think that the hard part is that this will require. Significant help from the parents in the form of after school and summer school programs which unfortunately, many/most will not do.

As for the risk/reward analysis, I’m quite positive that at the beginning yiu and I would disagree. I also suspect that those would be deep disagreements. I’m also quite positive that you and I could work to an excellent common position as to who the right people are to implement and mange this solution.

Disagreement is not a bad thing. In fact it is necessary. Show me a leader who will not engage and adapt and I will show you one that is not long for their job and has probably outgrown their abilities.

One size fits all is what got us here, and we all have to recognize that.

 

3rd overall, 27th in K-12, down from 16th in 2021. Maybe the drop is the result of DeSantization?

Best States for Education 2022

 

That was a wild ride. Clicked on the sources for the chart, the sources don't show the same information as the chart. The first source was WalletHub showing us at 14th for 2022. The second source was the Census Bureau's report on the level of education in the country in 2018.

 

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States with the Best School Systems
WalletHub ranked every state's public schools for "Quality" and "Safety" using 33 metrics. Among these were math and reading scores, median SAT and ACT scores, pupil-to-teacher ratio, high school graduation rate among low-income students, and bullying incidents. Unlike other research on the best schools, WalletHub's analysis is more comprehensive in that it considers performance, safety, class size, funding, and instructor credentials. Based on these metrics, the states with the best school systems, in order, are: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Delaware, and Maryland. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maryland are all in both the states with the highest educational attainment and the states with the best school systems"

If you then follow that WalletHub link, it puts Fl at 18th. Agree that K-12 is dropping quickly.

 

Just providing a larger pool to pump up FSU enrollment

 

The best metric for that would be GED applications!