Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

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Both the metric and the need for the metric are supported by data. It’s not reasonable to have lower expectations for individual students and then not account for the ratio of those students when judging the whole.

I agree. In assessing a school district or state you have to take into account socioeconomic variables. See how they do relative to schools working with similar demographics. I have some quibbles about the Urban Institute's methodology but the basic idea makes sense. Mississippi and Louisiana are to be commended for some remarkable progress. Oregon needs to re-examine what it has been doing.