There’s a lot of manipulation states do to specifically juice these scores, this is widely written about for Mississippi: https://radicalscholarship.com/2019/12

There’s a lot of manipulation states do to specifically juice these scores, this is widely written about for Mississippi: https://radicalscholarship.com/2019/12/06/mississippi-miracle-or-mirage-2019-naep-reading-scores-prompt-questions-not-answers/ https://radicalscholarship.com/2019/12/06/mississippi-miracl... http://hechingerreport.org/repeating-third-grade-good-kids/ http://hechingerreport.org/repeating-third-grade-good-kids/ Another good example of how the standardized tests are incredibly poor indicators of actual success on a wholistic basis. These gains you pointed out actually disappear (in the naeb’s own data) by eighth grade — furthering the idea that the changes done my Mississippi are not, in fact, a miracle but another political effort to put a band-aid on a problem.