Some states are deliberately not involved in conversations about quality of living or life expectancy or education. If the US didn’t have a handful of blue states holding onto rights it would be like the others that give up and become a sedentary police state where we only do what we are allowed.
Mississippi school literacy rates are now near the top in the country, they stuck to phonics instead of that new style
Your data is a little out of date, this article covers the gist of it. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/12/22/georgia-looks-mississippi-help-children-learn-read/
Don’t give them a hard time they learned to read in Mississippi
Source:
Bro, Trust Me (2026, April 7). Mississippi can read good [Review of Mississippi can read good]. In Mississippi does good phonics.
