The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today statewide results from the 2021-22 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), which show student achievement exceeding pre-pandemic levels in English Language Arts (ELA) and science and nearly tying in mathematics.
Overall, the percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced reached an all-time high of 42.2% in ELA and 55.9% in science, and reached 47.3% in mathematics, just shy of the pre-pandemic rate of 47.4%.
Pre-pandemic, student achievement steadily increased from the first administration of MAAP in 2016 until 2019, when the percentage of students scoring proficient and advanced reached a record high. The pandemic created obstacles to teaching and learning throughout 2020-21, and overall student achievement declined in Mississippi and nationally.
Subject | 2019 | 2020*
| 2021 | 2022 | Change since 2019 |
Mathematics | 47.4% |
| 35.1% | 47.3% | -0.1% |
English Language Arts (ELA) | 41.6% | COVID-19 | 34.9% | 42.2% | +0.6% |
Science | 55.3% |
| 50.0% | 55.9% | +0.6% |
*No assessments given due to statewide school closures at the start of COVID-19 pandemic.
“The 2021-22 assessment results provide clear and indisputable evidence of the resilience of our students and educators and their ability to recover from the disruptions to learning,” said Dr. Kim Benton, state superintendent of education, interim. “We are confident Mississippi educators and school leaders across the state will continue to build upon this progress by setting high expectations and working to ensure every student in every school overcomes the setbacks of the pandemic and is successful.”
MAAP measures students’ progress toward academic goals that equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in college and the workforce. Mississippi teachers helped develop MAAP tests, which align with the learning goals for Mississippi classrooms. MAAP measures student performance in ELA and mathematics in grades 3-8, science in grades 5 and 8, and in high school English II, Algebra I, Biology and U.S. History.
The state administered a new U.S. History assessment in 2020-21; the percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced on this assessment increased from 47.4% in 2020-21 to 69.3% in 2021-22.
By 2021-22, districts had more experience managing pandemic disruptions and were provided with additional support, including federal COVID-19 relief funds and state investments to help accelerate learning. The additional funds enabled districts to pay for extended learning days, tutorial services and intensive interventions, among other supports. State investments include the Mississippi Connects digital learning initiative, which provided all students with a computer device, and services including on-demand tutoring, high-quality digital curriculum subscriptions and access to digital learning coaches.
“There have been incredible efforts in districts and at the state level to remove barriers for students,” Dr. Benton said. “We still have students in areas of the state who have not completely rebounded. Support will continue to be available in the upcoming school year and next summer to make sure every student is able to recover from the disruptions to their learning and narrow achievement gaps."
The overall increase in assessment scores in 2021-22 after the decline in 2020-21 will likely impact district and school grades because the calculation of the state’s A-F accountability grades relies heavily on the amount of progress students make from one year to the next. Overall, students made significant progress between 2020-21 and 2021-22, as schools focused on accelerating learning after the first year of the pandemic. In addition, the passing requirements for high school Algebra I, English II, Biology and U.S. History were waived in 2020-21, which will affect the graduation rate until all students who tested under the waivers graduate.
Accountability grades for the 2021-22 school year will be released at the Mississippi State Board of Education meeting on Sept. 29.
Pre-pandemic, Mississippi had become a national leader in education because students were making faster progress than nearly every other state. Several factors contributed to the steady rise in student achievement including the implementation of higher academic standards and statewide support to teachers to help students reach higher standards. Other factors include the effective implementation of several education reform laws and policies that developed or strengthened early childhood education, literacy instruction, school and district accountability, and advanced learning opportunities for high school students.
17 comments:
They are still the dumbest and most worthless generation in the history of human civilization.
And unfortunately for them, we are approaching some of the hardest times in human history.
Perhaps we will discovered that it is true that hard times make great men?
God knows ESG, feminism, and transvestites won’t save us.
So you’re saying that less than half of public school children in MS are proficient at math. Good to know.
Lower the bar and the scores improve.
Your school children are stupid. But they have been stupider. Mo Money is required.
And they call this Progress---
I see the mouth breathers have emerged from their deep educational research to enlighten us as to what’s what.
The libs changed the test to make it easier.
Jurst think of all the waste of time and money on all this testing and report preparation- only to confirm that the vast majority of students are stupid-
Homeschool
I wonder how some of the commenters here would fare at these tests. As the right wing continues their assault on education and libraries, many here would probably be proud to have their ignorance formally certified.
Assault? Sorry, it's been the left wing assaulting education. It was the left wing keeping the kids out of schools the last few years while it was the right wing trying to get the kids back in school so they could learn.
Well, the left wing kept the kids out of school in Jackson and Canton and guess what? The poor kids, who were behind the other districts in the area, fell further behind even though they needed the education the most. I bet when I compare these scores, and I will, to the 2019 scores, JPS and Canton will not have rebounded. You should see their K scores from a few weeks ago.
What an absolutely stupid thing to say. You think schools were great prepandemic? When was the last time you actually set foot in a public school? Even when they’re in school, children are attending schools largely staffed by with low salaried imbeciles who don’t care about what they’re teaching and are mostly the first generation of their family not working a job that has an hourly wage and no benefits. This state gets what it pays for from teachers in most cases, and that’s because conservative leadership is committed to paying shit wages that result in shit faculty getting shit results, all in the name of making a stronger case for privatizing the whole thing and starving poor people out of social mobility. You’re a damn fool if you think the left have fucked up public education. It’s precisely in states where the left is/has been in charge and where collective bargaining for teachers is the norm where public schools get the best results. If white conservatives weren’t so damn bothered by their children going to school with other people’s children and keeping their foot on people’s necks, we’d actually invest in public schools and we’d all be better for it. I’ll hang up and listen to the mouth breathers.
Confucius
The Legacy Lives On...
6:08 That vein pops out on your neck when you shout that ignorant rhetoric. If you actually believe school achievement is in some way connected to collective bargaining, you're dumber than dick's dill-weed.
Glad to explain in simple terms.
Collective bargaining means higher average salaries. Higher average salaries increase likelihood of more, better qualified candidates for teaching jobs. More, better qualified teachers do a better job teaching children how to do math. Again, you get what you pay for. If we paid doctors and lawyers what we pay teachers, we’d see the results. And if you want to say we only work 9 months of the year, by all means pay us more and make school year round. Truth is you don’t want good public schools, just something else to complain about.
11:46 - Your rhetoric fails to include the fact that every large city that 'enjoys' a teachers' union has poorly performing or failing school systems.
No, you don't get what you pay for. What you get is threatened strikes, employees who ride the coattails of liberal union strong-arm tactics and cesspools of 'teachers' who ignore and abhor parents. And you get a liberal Justice Department hooked at the hip with unions - a department who considers parents who speak up, terrorists.
And do we even need to mention unions pushing Critical Race Theory, tenure rights and the impossibility of termination?
{You not score point in game - You move goal line when you have ball.}
Confucius
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