To be clear, the article is referring to the “Mississippi Miracle” in reading/education. There isn’t a conspiracy theory that the state and/or river doesn’t exist.
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There is a large amount of contempt a segment of liberals have for anything positive coming from “flyover county”.
I live in Texas now, but I went back to NOVA for my childhood friends wedding. The amount of insults and slights I had to put up with from some of his friends who decided to stay in the DMV was absurd. Like I’m a left leaning guy who voted for Biden. But I still get asked questions about why I value guns over children or why I hate Mexicans.
Dude I’m on your side, but fuck the last thing I want to do as a liberal not living on the coasts is hanging out with liberals who live in DC and think they know everything. I would rather hang out with my Republican friends than these people. At least my GOP friends aren’t too arrogant to even hold a conversation with me.
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I actually really like this debate. I think we’re in for at least another few rounds of Discourse before things are somewhat settled, and the end result is going to be a much deeper understanding of what happened and why. That’s great! If the Mississippi Miracle is real, having had this debate is going to make scaling it across the nation much easier. If parts of it are real, this debate will help us find those parts. And if it’s totally bogus (which I doubt, but it’s possible), then we’ll chalk up a win for peer review and rigorous academic debate, and take what we learned doesn’t work to try and craft future educational policy that actually does work.
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To be clear, the article is referring to the “Mississippi Miracle” in reading/education. There isn’t a conspiracy theory that the state and/or river doesn’t exist.
There is a large amount of contempt a segment of liberals have for anything positive coming from “flyover county”.
I live in Texas now, but I went back to NOVA for my childhood friends wedding. The amount of insults and slights I had to put up with from some of his friends who decided to stay in the DMV was absurd. Like I’m a left leaning guy who voted for Biden. But I still get asked questions about why I value guns over children or why I hate Mexicans.
Dude I’m on your side, but fuck the last thing I want to do as a liberal not living on the coasts is hanging out with liberals who live in DC and think they know everything. I would rather hang out with my Republican friends than these people. At least my GOP friends aren’t too arrogant to even hold a conversation with me.
I actually really like this debate. I think we’re in for at least another few rounds of Discourse before things are somewhat settled, and the end result is going to be a much deeper understanding of what happened and why. That’s great! If the Mississippi Miracle is real, having had this debate is going to make scaling it across the nation much easier. If parts of it are real, this debate will help us find those parts. And if it’s totally bogus (which I doubt, but it’s possible), then we’ll chalk up a win for peer review and rigorous academic debate, and take what we learned doesn’t work to try and craft future educational policy that actually does work.