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Note when they say "shot up the national rankings" they mean relative, since Alabama remained static on scores, but others slipped. https://www.nationsreportca

Note when they say "shot up the national rankings" they mean relative, since Alabama remained static on scores, but others slipped. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/state-district-trends/?grade=8 https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/... https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/mathematics/2024/g4_8/state-district-trends/?grade=8 https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/mathematics/2024/g... They might be better looking at what the states going down were doing and using that for (anti-) lessons as maintaining a score hardly seems like a rousing success for new initiatives.

ErroneousBosh 8mo ago
> "shot up the national rankings" Also, y'know, not a phrase I would use with American schools. Let's have less shooting eh?
ch4s3 8mo ago
The sub headline is "Adjusted for student poverty", and is about reversing pandemic learning loss. The poorest students in the highest poverty districts in Alabama made significant gains since the end of the pandemic. You can see more detail here[1]. [1] https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ERS-Report-Final-1.31.pdf https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
bitshiftfaced 8mo ago
I disagree. It shows that the policies that they put into place gave them resistance to whatever it is about the pandemic that reduced scores everywhere else. As the article laid out, Alabama didn't just keep doing the same things.