Charlie’s piece on the paradigmatic revolution in Mississippi that has produced dramatic improvements in students’ test scores is vital. So, too, is Rich’s column detailing the steps Magnolia State educators took to achieve what its proponents are calling the “Mississippi Miracle.” Both are based on a report in The Argument bylined by Kelsey Piper, an intrepid journalist who has made a noble habit of confronting her compatriots on the left with discomfiting information about the world around them — often the sort that has long been known to conservatives. As Frederick Hess recently explained in National Review, Mississippi is one of four Southern states that are seeing a surge in student achievement.
Mississippi students’ impressive improvements are not exactly unknown to the left. They have just been ignored by those who are disinclined to take the state’s test results at face value. Not long ago, however, that was not the case.
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