Three Red States Are The Best Hope In Schooling
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/9/2026 6:02:34 PM
A ray of hope is emerging in American education. (snip) [H]ope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states in the deep south that long represented America's educational basement. (snip) # Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery. # The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama (snip.) # Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth grade reading levels, and after adjusting for demographics like poverty and race, Mississippi tanks No. 1 while Louisiana ranks No. 2 (snip.)
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PR Fallout of the All-Spanish Super Bowl
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Only 14% of the NFL’s total audience is Hispanic.
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What we know
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Noonan writes for The Wall Street Journal, so I trashed it. The Washington Post is the "gold standard" for political coverage, and I trashed them.
So next, I need to trash the New York Times to complete a trifecta.
Jamelle Bouie gives me that opportunity, as it happens. He is a columnist for the Times and has been called
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced on Feb. 8 that he was uninvited from a dinner at the White House for the nation’s governors.
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The worst-case scenario for Olympian Lindsey Vonn came just seconds into the women's downhill final in Cortina, Italy, on Sunday afternoon.
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Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has quietly taken a role as a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an institution long entangled with Chinese influence networks, foreign government funding, and open-borders activism. (snip) For over a decade, Carnegie has maintained a documented relationship with the China-United States Exchange Federation -- a core instrument of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department, whose stated purpose is to "co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition" and steer foreign elites toward Beijing's preferred positions.
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Not paywalled. A genuinely fascinating and encouraging article on educational progress in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi (although the author reverts to form toward the end.)