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Testing for Wisdom? | Truth in American Education
by mike simpson / 14min
Testing for Wisdom? | Truth in American Education : Testing for Wisdom? I noticed an article in Scientific American entitled “ Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of Smart Fools? ” They interviewed Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg who annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science they said sounded the alarm about standardized testing. He addressed proble
Torlakson Announces CA Schools Mobile App Release - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education)
by mike simpson / 2h
Torlakson Announces CA Schools Mobile App Release - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education) : State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces Release of CA Schools Mobile App SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced the release of the California Department of Education’s (CDE) first mobile application that offers detailed information about California’s 10,000 publi
Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ - The Washington Post
by mike simpson / 2h
Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ - The Washington Post : Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ UNLESS YOU BECOME A BADASS TEACHER Badass Teacher (BAT) Association WELCOME TO THE BAT CAVE Badass Teacher Association Web Site BATs (@badassteachersa) • Instagram
Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? – Cloaking Inequity
by mike simpson / 3h
Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? – Cloaking Inequity : Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? About this time 16 years ago I was sitting on the lawn listen to Professor Ray McDermott talk about the work of bees in a hive and the application of their activity to education. It was a PERFECT spring graduate school course. Well, in that course, McDermott also used
Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? - The Washington Post
by mike simpson / 3h
Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? - The Washington Post : Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? Every year the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, releases a report on state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. It is the only national report with det
EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” – Missouri Education Watchdog
by mike simpson / 6h
EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” – Missouri Education Watchdog : EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” Is the Job of an Education Reporter to Learn How to Write PR Instead of the Facts? Philanthropists, NGOs and EdReformers Hope So. The Education Writers Association (EWA) is the invitation only event for writers
Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school - ABC News
by mike simpson / 6h
Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school - ABC News : Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school A dozen states are trying to keep children in school longer, from making kindergarten mandatory to raising the legal drop-out age. But it's not an easy sell. Nevada is among the states this year that have or are considering proposals to stretch the compulsory attendan
Moan-day Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
by mike simpson / 6h
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all : Moan-day Diane Ravitch's blog A site to discuss better education for all New Jersey: Over-Testing is Hurting the Children It is Supposed to Help 4 by dianeravitch / 1h From a teacher in New Jersey: Testing Frenzy Steals Learning Time from Students The public school testing frenzy is at an all-time high, and it is robbing our stud
Schools Matter: Chavous, Personalized Learning, and Real Indy Voices
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Schools Matter: Chavous, Personalized Learning, and Real Indy Voices : Chavous, Personalized Learning, and Real Indy Voices Hoosier School Heist TV is Doug Martin's channel featuring videos of his book tour across Indiana speaking on the corporate takeover of public education. Order Hoosier School Heist at http://hoosierschoolheist.com/. Follow Hoosier School Heist on Facebook: https://www.facebo
Plan to outlaw for-profit charters hits online ed too :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
by mike simpson / 7h
Plan to outlaw for-profit charters hits online ed too :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet : Plan to outlaw for-profit charters hits online ed too (Calif.) Legislation aimed at prohibiting for-profit charter schools from operating in California would likely also disrupt educational services to about 25,000 students pursuing online independent study.
Torlakson Urges to Fight Against Childhood Obesity - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education)
by mike simpson / 7h
Torlakson Urges to Fight Against Childhood Obesity - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education) : State Schools Chief Torlakson Speaks at Childhood Obesity Prevention Conference SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson on Friday told educators and school nutrition officials at a major conference to keep fighting against childhood obesity and urged them to oppose President Trump’s
A new marker of success at graduation: The seal of biliteracy - The Washington Post
by mike simpson / 7h
A new marker of success at graduation: The seal of biliteracy - The Washington Post : A new marker of success at graduation: The seal of biliteracy Max Moss started studying Spanish in sixth grade and never stopped. He learned to speak the language, read it and understand conversations. By the time he hit 12th grade, he knew enough to recite 13th century poetry and write his senior thesis in Span
TEACHER VOICE: Trump wants to axe the program that allowed me to serve my country and its highest-need children - The Hechinger Report
by mike simpson / 8h
TEACHER VOICE: Trump wants to axe the program that allowed me to serve my country and its highest-need children - The Hechinger Report : TEACHER VOICE: Trump wants to axe the program that allowed me to serve my country and its highest-need children A Denver teacher worries about the proposed defunding of national service programs I wish my teacher knew I don’t have a friend to play with me,” a st
Learn more about the Schott Foundation for Public Education's Work.
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Grantmaking | Schott Foundation for Public Education : Learn more about the Schott Foundation for Public Education's Work. The Schott Foundation’s core belief is that a broad-based grassroots movement is central to creating the systemic change that is needed to address the disparities poor children and children of color face in our nation’s public education system. Click here to view our current
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES : WEEKEND QUOTABLES Art by: Furia ACK, a street artist from Portugal living in London. Betsy DeVos When reporters kept asking her about her own climate-change views, she responded: “Certainly, the climate changes. Yes.” -- Washington Post Chris Baehrend, president of ChiACTS on CTU merger "What it does is it helps all Chicago teachers fight togethe
I Only Do This Because You're Doing Well [Stop Asking Me About Your Grades] | The Jose Vilson
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I Only Do This Because You're Doing Well [Stop Asking Me About Your Grades] | The Jose Vilson : I ONLY DO THIS BECAUSE YOU’RE DOING WELL [STOP ASKING ME ABOUT YOUR GRADES] Not a day goes by when a student asks me how they’re doing in class. My teaching days have about three guarantees: a student will ask to go to the restroom when they already asked in their previous classes, a student will ask w
About the SCOTUS Blog | deutsch29
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About the SCOTUS Blog | deutsch29 : About the SCOTUS Blog This post is a public service announcement of sorts. I was doing some research on the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) case, Trinity Lutheran vs. Comer , and I wondered whether my readers know about the SCOTUS blog and other SCOTUS online resources. Yes, the Supreme Court has a blog called the SCOTUS blog. It has a search featur

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Testing for Wisdom? | Truth in American Education

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Testing for Wisdom?


I noticed an article in Scientific American entitled “Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of Smart Fools?”
They interviewed Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg who annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science they said sounded the alarm about standardized testing.
He addressed problems with IQ tests and college entrance exams that are selecting and rewarding people who have a particular kind of intelligence, but not the intelligence needed to solve significant challenges.
Tests like the SAT, ACT, the GRE—what I call the alphabet tests—are reasonably good measures of academic kinds of knowledge, plus general intelligence and related skills. They are highly correlated with IQ tests and they predict a lot of things in life: academic performance to some extent, salary, level of job you will reach to a minor extent—but they are very limited. What I suggested in my talk today is that they may actually be hurting us. Our overemphasis on narrow academic skills—the kinds that get you high grades in school—can be a bad thing for several reasons. You end up with people who are good at taking tests and fiddling with phones and computers, and those are good skills but they are not tantamount to the skills we need to make the world a better place.
He argues we must factor other variables with intelligence to cultivate the problem-solvers our society needs.
What I argue is that intelligence that’s not modulated and moderated by creativity, common sense and wisdom is not such a positive thing to have. What it leads to is 
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Torlakson Announces CA Schools Mobile App Release - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education)

Torlakson Announces CA Schools Mobile App Release - Year 2017 (CA Dept of Education):

State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces
Release of CA Schools Mobile App
SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced the release of the California Department of Education’s (CDE) first mobile application that offers detailed information about California’s 10,000 public schools.
The CA Schools mobile app, developed in-house by the CDE and available for iOS and Android systems, lets users locate nearby schools based on their current location and provides a wealth of details, including contacts and directions, demographics, test scores, and a school’s California School Dashboard profile page.
“Never before have we put so much school information literally in the hands of our students, parents, and community members and made the information so accessible and user-friendly,” Torlakson said. “Home buyers can check out schools in their prospective neighborhoods. Parents heading to a child’s away game can map directions to the host school. There are all kinds of potential uses.”
The CA Schools Mobile App draws upon the same data as the CDE’s California School Directory and links to additional content on the CDE’s Web site such as a school’s California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) test results. In addition to location-based searches, users can find schools by city, county, school district, and ZIP code. Users can search specifically for charter schools and even private schools.
The CA Schools mobile app is available for free download through Apple’s App Store External link opens in new window or tab. Web page or the Google Play External link opens in new window or tab. Web page. More information is available on CDE’s CA Schools Mobile Application support Web page.
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Tom Torlakson — State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Communications Division, Room 5602, 916-319-0818, Fax 916-319-0100


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Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ - The Washington Post

Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ - The Washington Post:

Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ 

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Commencement speeches are, by and large, moments when a speaker tries to “uplift” graduating students with hopeful expectation for the future. By his own admission, speaker Elias Vlanton did something a bit different Friday, when he delivered the address to graduates of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
[The greatest commencement speech ever]
Vlanton, who taught social studies in Prince George’s County Public Schools for 16 years, talked not just about the joys of teaching, but he also presented the unvarnished truth about the hardships educators must confront. Here’s a sample:
Future teachers: You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession — condescended to by many and ignored by the rest. You’ll get tired of hearing, at your neighborhood barbecues or cocktail parties, that you are “only” a teacher, and you’ll be lectured by complete strangers, with no training in education, on how they could teach better than you. Your students’ parents might be completely disengaged from their children’s lives and of no help in your mission or, possibly worse, over-engaged, telling you how their little Juan is unique and must be treated with special care — implying all your other students are interchangeable. While lecturing you on the importance of treating students with sensitivity and respect, the school’s administration might treat you with neither.
Vlanton, in fact, gave himself an “F” in the uplifting department. Read his speech and see what you think.
Vlanton received an honorary doctorate of letters from St. Mary’s College in 2009 for his work at Bladensburg High School in helping low-income students attend college by mentoring them. Many of the students attended St. Mary’s as the first in their families to go to college, and those students graduated at higher rates than the St. Mary’s average, he said.
He is also a freelance journalist, and in addition to articles on education, he wrote a study titled, “Who Killed George Polk? A Press Covers Up a Death in the Family.” Polk was a CBS radio journalist who was murdered in 1948 while he was covering the Greek civil war, though it is still not known who killed him.
[Why caps and gowns at graduation? Let’s go back 900 years.]
Here’s Vlanton’s commencement speech:
A commencement speech aims to uplift graduates as they enter the workforce; sorry, kids, I’ll earn an “F” on that score.
Future teachers: You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession — condescended to by many and ignored by the rest. You’ll Commencement speaker warns graduates: ‘You are entering a low social esteem, often thankless, profession’ - The Washington Post:
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Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? – Cloaking Inequity

Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? – Cloaking Inequity:

Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail?



About this time 16 years ago I was sitting on the lawn listen to Professor Ray McDermott talk about the work of bees in a hive and the application of their activity to education. It was a PERFECT spring graduate school course. Well, in that course, McDermott also used an interesting pedagogical tool. What Ray would do is encourage us to take complex texts and replace the nouns and other words with alternative topics to see how the work would read and provide a new meaning. I call this a textual interchange approach. For example, here is what I did with a Marx text as a graduate student in 2002:
Precisely because political economy (education policy) fails to grasp the interconnections within the movement (education), it was possible to oppose, for example, the doctrine of competition (school choice movement) to the doctrine of monopoly (school resource allocation) the doctrine of craft freedom (charter schools) to the doctrine of the guild (industrialists and elites) and the doctrine of the division of landed property (school funding formulas based on property values) to the doctrine of the great estate (school district boundaries), for competition (market-based school choice) craft freedom (charter schools), and division of landed property (school funding formulas based on property values) were developed and conceived only as accidental, deliberate, violent consequences of monopoly (school resource allocation), of the guilds (industrialists and elites) of feudal property (segregation of education resources), and not as their necessary, inevitable, and natural consequences.
At the time, I was contemplating how McDermott’s course readings on Marx and his ideas on political economy could be transposed/translated to school choice and education policy.
Fast forward to the modern day.
I read an article in The Guardian entitled Whole Foods represents the failures of ‘conscious capitalism‘ The piece got me thinking about the constant public conversation about charters as conscious. Betsy DeVos is a big supporter of charter schools and in Michigan more than 80% of charter schools are for-profit. Is this the direction that the conscious charter school sector is headed? What does this evolution toward for-profit portend for the future?
To ponder these questions, I have undertaken the McDermott textual interchange approach with The Guardian piece to portend how an article might read in 2020.
It’s hard to think of a better poster child for “conscious capitalism” than [charter schools]. These days, the [for-profit charters] are floundering and a potential buyout is on the horizon. What does that say about the conscious capitalism it championed? 
[Enrollments] have declined for six straight quarters, [millions of students] walked away during the same period. Last month activist hedge fund funds swooped in buying up 8.3% of [for-profit charters] and demanded an overhaul. The [for-profit charter chains] responded by reshuffling boards, bringing in a handful of big box retail stars and promoting [individuals] who hail from private equity.
A failing [school] isn’t exactly news. In the dog-eat-dog world of global capitalism lots of [schools] have their moment in the sun only to crash and burn a few years later.
But [charter schools] were supposed to be different.
[Charter school proponents] have long argued that [charters] are wired differently — that they runs on a “conscious capitalism” model that outsmarts the competitive pressures of our [neighborhood public schools] through creativity and innovation.
[There is a] growing consensus that [for-profit education] is doing irreparable harm to [communities] and the people who live in them. Our for-profit system is increasingly viewed as a zero-sum game in which [neighborhood] destruction and rising inequality are firmly linked to the rapacious behavior of corporations.
Free-market [choice], according to [charter school proponents], is actually a “beautiful”, “heroic” system that, properly harnessed, can operate “in harmony with the fundamentals of human nature” and communities.
We don’t need to rein in [charter schools] through onerous labor [agreements] and regulations, because the virtuous feedback loop of honoring stakeholders plus innovation will leave “unconscious” [schools] in the dust.
The conscious capitalism model is appealing. It’s simple, easy. We can avert looming [community] catastrophe by becoming conscious consumers who frequent conscious [charter schools]. After all, [attend school at charter] is a heck of a lot more fun than lobbying for regulations on [charter schools]. More [charters], less [neighborhood schools]. Problem solved.
[Charter school proponents] were right about one thing: people do love to [enroll their children] at [charter schools] – or at least, they used to. These days that demon called competition has caught up with the [community-based charters]. [Large, for-profit] behemoth [charter school chains] now offer [franchise schools in all fifty states].

The point of this dour appraisal is not to crow over [charters] misfortune. It’s to take a hard look at models that claim to solve the ills of capitalism without challenging the in-built drives of our for-profit system.
[Charter proponents] have loudly declared unions akin to herpes and state regulation little more than “crony capitalism” – that all we need to solve community crises are better, smarter, “conscious” capitalists. The crisis of [charter schools] belies this notion. There’s no way to “fix” corporations’ compulsion to produce ever more, ever more cheaply. It’s written into the DNA of global capitalism.
Attractive as the conscious capitalism model may be, we simply can’t rely on companies to deliver dignified workplaces, equitable models of [education].
All [students] are not equal in our global economy, and even the best intentioned [schools] run up against the implacable foes of profit and competition. Ultimately, the thorny problem of sustaining both decent livelihoods and a livable [communities] won’t be solved by [market-based approaches to schools]. It’ll be solved through political struggle and demands that put people before profit.
Does this textual interchange approach demonstrate what we will be reading in 2020? or even 2018.
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Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? - The Washington Post

Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? - The Washington Post:

Why should the federal government support high-quality early education?


Every year the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, releases a report on state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. It is the only national report with detailed information on preschool enrollment, funding, teacher qualifications and other policies related to quality, such as the presence of a qualified teacher and assistant, small class size and low teacher-to-student ratio.
The newest edition, the 2016 yearbook, was recently released, with profiles on preschool programs in 43 states plus Guam and the District of Columbia and some information on early-education efforts in states and the U.S. territories that do not provide state-funded preschool. There was both good news and bad from the 2015-2016 school year, as the report noted:
Nationwide, state-funded preschool program enrollment reached an all-time high, serving nearly 1.5 million children, 32 percent of 4-year-olds and 5 percent of 3-year-olds. State funding for preschool rose 8 percent to about $7.4 billion, a $564 million increase. State funding per child increased to $4,976, exceeding pre-recession levels for the first time. Six state funded preschool programs met all 10 current quality standards benchmarks. Nine states had programs that met fewer than half; and seven states do not fund preschool at all.
Below is a post on the data and on the federal government’s role in prekindergarten, written by W. Steven Barnett, a Board of Governors professor and director of the National Institute for Early Education Research. His research includes studies of the economics of early care and education, including costs and benefits; the long-term effects of preschool programs on children’s learning and development; and the distribution of educational opportunities. Barnett earned his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan and has written or co-written more than 180 publications.
By W. Steven Barnett


In his first budget proposal, President Trump calls for the Department of Education to “refocus its mission on supporting States and school districts in their efforts to provide high-quality education to all our students.”  Our new national survey of state preschool Why should the federal government support high-quality early education? - The Washington Post:
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EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” – Missouri Education Watchdog

EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” – Missouri Education Watchdog:

EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference”

Is the Job of an Education Reporter to Learn How to Write PR Instead of the Facts? Philanthropists, NGOs and EdReformers Hope So.

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The Education Writers Association (EWA) is the invitation only event for writers covering education.  The title of this article was taken from EWA’s website and the announcement of the EWA2017 recent seminar.  Do you remember EWA2016?:
An organization claiming to represent and support all US education journalists sets up shop in Boston next week for its annual “National Seminar”. The Education Writers Association’s (EWA’s) national seminars introduce thousands of journalists to sources of information and expertise. Many sessions feature journalists talking with other journalists. Some sessions host teachers, students, or administrators in “reports from the front lines” type panel discussions. But, the remaining and most ballyhooed sessions feature non-journalist experts on education policy fronting panels with, typically, a journalist or two hosting. Allegedly, these sessions interpret “all the research”, and deliver truth, from the smartest, most enlightened on earth.
Given its central role, and the profession it represents, one would expect diligence from EWA in representing all sides and evidence. Indeed, EWA claims a central purpose “to help journalists get the story right.”
The ‘seminar’ for 2017 seems much like 2016.  Here is the agenda and sponsors:
Here are a few of the sessions:
Parents were represented at this conference and writers were asked to glimpse into the hearts and minds of EWA2017: “Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference” – Missouri Education Watchdog:
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Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school - ABC News

Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school - ABC News:

Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

A dozen states are trying to keep children in school longer, from making kindergarten mandatory to raising the legal drop-out age. But it's not an easy sell.
Nevada is among the states this year that have or are considering proposals to stretch the compulsory attendance age. A bill that would require children in Nevada to start school at age 5 was met with such resistance that it was amended to age 6. Current state law sets the age at 7. The proposal is likely to go nowhere, as the Nevada legislature is set to adjourn Monday.
"If you're really concerned about kids dropping out, I don't think making kindergarten mandatory is really the heart of the issue," said Maggie England, who opposes the Nevada bill and wants to homeschool her three children.
Supporters admit that it wouldn't have much of an impact on enrollment numbers — and therefore school budgets. State officials estimate that about 95 percent of 6-year-olds are already learning in a formal capacity. What's to be gained, then, said Nevada Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz, is the message that the state sometimes mocked as the "Mississippi of the West" is taking seriously its mission to turn things around in its glaringly deficient schools.
"I believe every child deserves a fair and equal shot at the American dream and that starts with school," said Diaz, the bill sponsor who is also a Las Vegas-area teacher. "I just think it's going to be a philosophical argument and we're just going to have to agree to disagree. As a teacher, and as an assemblywoman who represents a very at-risk population, this is fundamental."
The conversation among advocates is often tinged with this kind of anxiety about economic disparity. Their debate is centered as a moral imperative, extolling research on the importance of access to education, particularly for poor and disadvantaged children. Lately, education access has also seen a heightened, urgent interest on the national stage, ranging from college tuition to daycare and pre-kindergarten. The compulsory school age issue gained peak momentum when then-President Barack Obama in his 2012 State of the Union address urged states to raise the dropout age to 18.
In the past decade, both Republican and Democrat lawmakers have pushed for changes that would stretch the compulsory school attendance age, in some states requiring children to be in the classroom for as many as 13 years, from age 5 to 18. This year alone, at least six bills were proposed in Mississippi to expand the years that children must be in school. All of them have failed.
Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Montana, Mississippi and North Carolina also have considered the issue this year.
Nearly all states require free education to be offered by age 5, though in half the country, Several states moving to expand age kids must be in school - ABC News:
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