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The Miracle Unfolding in Mississippi Schools – It’s All About Statistics
If you’re in the bottom 25 percent of schools, they send a literacy coach into your school.
What is a literacy coach?
It is not a coach for the students. It is a coach for the teachers.
Mississippi leaders felt like it was really important to have some way to see how schools are doing and help parents, too, to decide what was a good school, what’s not. And so what that looks like in Mississippi now is that schools get an A through F letter rating. And what goes into that is not just how much do students at the end of the year, are they on grade level? But they also take into account growth.
How exactly does the state hold kids accountable?
Well, that 2013 big piece of legislation, a big part of it said that if kids don’t how to read, by the end of third grade, they’re holding kids back. And so every year, about 6 percent to 9 percent of Mississippi third graders are held back. And there are certain exceptions. But more or less, if you can’t learn to read by the end of the year, you can’t move on.
You’re taking out the lowest kids and giving them an extra year to learn thus influencing the success scores.
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