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The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in post-pandemic recovery.
In a decade, Mississippi moved from 49th to seventh in the nation on fourth-grade reading scores, despite remaining the poorest state.
According to Harvard’s 2024 Education Recovery Scorecard, Louisiana is the only state to recover to 2019 achievement levels in both reading and math, while Alabama matched pre-COVID scores in fourth-grade math alone.
All other states continue to lag prior achievement levels.
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Neetu Arnold is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute. Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute. This piece is adapted from City Journal.
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