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You're wrong http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida-and-texas-excel-in-math-and-reading-scores.html?referer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/20

You're wrong http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida-and-texas-excel-in-math-and-reading-scores.html?referer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida... Don't worry about the political climate too much though. Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advocating for the same policies here that caused them to flee their state in the first place.

GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
From the first paragraph of the article: "When the Education Department releases its biennial scorecard of reading and math scores for all 50 states this week, Florida and Texas are likely to look pretty mediocre. In 2013, the last time that scores were released, Florida ranked 30th on the tests, which are given to fourth and eighth graders, and Texas ranked 32nd." And: > Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advocating for the same policies here Let's hope they succeed. Texas delenda est and all that.
- vaadu 11y ago
  These refugees from bankrupted states are locusts that destroy the prosperity in one state, then move on to other prosperous states.
  - GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
    (a) I'm not totally comfortable referring to anybody, even Californians, as insects (b) California contains "Silicon Valley" into which there's a ton of prosperity being put (c) even Orange County is less morally bankrupt than almost all of Texas.
  - woah 11y ago
    California pays America's bills. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
- jdminhbg 11y ago
  Read the entire article. The upshot is that TX and FL perform very well when demographics are adjusted for; which is to say, it's a much easier job to teach reading to eighth-generation Americans in Iowa or Connecticut than to kids who arrived in the US last week.

GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago

From the first paragraph of the article: "When the Education Department releases its biennial scorecard of reading and math scores for all 50 states this week, Florida and Texas are likely to look pretty mediocre. In 2013, the last time that scores were released, Florida ranked 30th on the tests, which are given to fourth and eighth graders, and Texas ranked 32nd." And: > Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advocating for the same policies here Let's hope they succeed. Texas delenda est and all that.

vaadu 11y ago
These refugees from bankrupted states are locusts that destroy the prosperity in one state, then move on to other prosperous states.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
  (a) I'm not totally comfortable referring to anybody, even Californians, as insects (b) California contains "Silicon Valley" into which there's a ton of prosperity being put (c) even Orange County is less morally bankrupt than almost all of Texas.
- woah 11y ago
  California pays America's bills. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
jdminhbg 11y ago
Read the entire article. The upshot is that TX and FL perform very well when demographics are adjusted for; which is to say, it's a much easier job to teach reading to eighth-generation Americans in Iowa or Connecticut than to kids who arrived in the US last week.