DiscoverBeer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill562: Was there a miracle in Mississippi education?
562: Was there a miracle in Mississippi education?

562: Was there a miracle in Mississippi education?

Update: 2025-11-06
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The boys drink and review a Helles lager from Sam Adams, then discuss the Mississippi miracle. They've moved from the bottom to near the top in reading.

How did they do it?

They abandoned the failed modern educational ideas, like whole language, that have been destroying education for decades, and went back to phonics and strict standards.

Modern ideas confuse how a proficient reader reads with how beginners learn. It was a comical error.

People become proficient by learning and internalizing the basics. Later they don't need the basics anymore, but that doesn't mean they didn't need to learn them. Modern methods try to take a shortcut, and it doesn't work.

Mississippi went back to the basics and pulled off a miracle.


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562: Was there a miracle in Mississippi education?

562: Was there a miracle in Mississippi education?

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