{"id":15622,"date":"2025-11-21T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:24:31","slug":"oregon-dead-last-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15622","title":{"rendered":"Oregon dead last in reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why is Mississippi doing so well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2013, the state passed a reform to require teachers to understand the science of reading (basically, phonics), deploy literacy coaches to schools, identify students struggling to read early and hold back students in third grade who weren\u2019t ready to advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana have now done much the same, and have also made gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original source of all this was a 2002 reading law in Florida that boosted student achievement in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/30\/opinion\/mississippi-is-no-miracle-its-the-future-of-education\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Oregon, with some of the highest per-student spending, run for over a decade by a one of the most progressive Democratically controlled state legislatures in both the house and senate, continues to double-down on proven failed teaching methods and suspended all education standards to graduate in order to promote racial equality.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Oregon is passing increasing numbers of functionally illiterate children on to adulthood, kids in Mississippi can read, and other countries children are doing this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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