Leftists Ignore Black Students’ Higher Success Rate in Conservative States

Leftists across America are ignoring the success stories for black students in conservative states, and a commentator for the Washington Examiner is wondering why.

It is in an opinion piece by Corey Walker, who focuses on education among other topics in reporting, that the problem is raised: “Black students are thriving in red states and blue states fail them.”. . .

In “deep-red Mississippi, America’s poorest state,” reading achievement scores have soared in recent years, the report says.

That boost followed a decision to teach students using a phonics-based reading method, a “direct contrast to the ‘whole word’ method touted in liberal states. The state also dispatched coaches to work with teachers at schools with especially poor results,” the report said. . .

According to the report, the state’s “NAEP scores soared from near the bottom of the nation to around the middle of the pack. Moreover, Mississippi ranks 46th in public school spending, showing that shoveling more money into the school system is not necessary to yield positive results and that poverty is not necessarily a barrier to academic achievement.” (Read more from “Leftists Ignore Black Students’ Higher Success Rate in Conservative States” HERE)

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