Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act
The Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act was passed during the 2013 legislative session. The Office of Elementary Education and Reading, a faction of the Mississippi Department of Education, is responsible for training K-3rd grade educators with research-based instructional strategies to help implement the Literacy-Based Promotion Act.
The Mississippi Department of Education provides the purpose of the act:
“The purpose of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act is to improve the reading skills of kindergarten and first through third grade public school students so that every student completing 3rd grade reads at or above grade level. The intent is to increase the proficiency of all students in reading …show more content…
A UCLA study shows that student achievement is reduced 5-17 percentile points when classes are overcrowded. Requiring students who do not pass one “established statewide assessment” will tremendous add to the school overcrowding problem. Even though the Mississippi Department of Education is responsible for providing K-3rd grade teachers with literacy training, there is no such program that provides training for effectively teaching a large class. According to May 2015 3rd grade assessment scores, nearly 15% of students failed the reading assessment. Translation, the next year’s 3rd grade teachers will see a 15% increase in students. According to Ballot Pedia, there is only one teacher per fifteen students. With the increased amount of students repeating the third grade, that number jumps to 17 student per teacher. The numbers may seem minimal when looked at independently. Factor in teacher workload, and the picture becomes clearer. Through the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, teachers are required to provide parents, in writing, with lots of paperwork for students that have been identified with a substantial deficit in reading. Paperwork includes notifying the parent, during each quarterly progress report, with information …show more content…
That number is only true if there is a two-parent household. According to the “National Center for Children in Poverty”, more than half of children in Mississippi live in poverty. Include that number with the fact that 36% of those children live with an unemployed parent, 68% of those parents have less than a high school education, more than 50% are African-American, and 10% live in families with no parent presence, parental involvement in the education process becomes non-existent. As stated earlier, the Mississippi Department of Education requires teachers to provide parents with informational instructional strategies to help their child achieve maximum success. The numbers show that most parents are unemployed and uneducated. This means that parents are not trained to interpret data provided by the teachers. By not being able to interpret the data, parents are, in turn, not able to help students with school
The Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act was passed during the 2013 legislative session. The Office of Elementary Education and Reading, a faction of the Mississippi Department of Education, is responsible for training K-3rd grade educators with research-based instructional strategies to help implement the Literacy-Based Promotion Act.
The Mississippi Department of Education provides the purpose of the act:
“The purpose of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act is to improve the reading skills of kindergarten and first through third grade public school students so that every student completing 3rd grade reads at or above grade level. The intent is to increase the proficiency of all students in reading …show more content…
A UCLA study shows that student achievement is reduced 5-17 percentile points when classes are overcrowded. Requiring students who do not pass one “established statewide assessment” will tremendous add to the school overcrowding problem. Even though the Mississippi Department of Education is responsible for providing K-3rd grade teachers with literacy training, there is no such program that provides training for effectively teaching a large class. According to May 2015 3rd grade assessment scores, nearly 15% of students failed the reading assessment. Translation, the next year’s 3rd grade teachers will see a 15% increase in students. According to Ballot Pedia, there is only one teacher per fifteen students. With the increased amount of students repeating the third grade, that number jumps to 17 student per teacher. The numbers may seem minimal when looked at independently. Factor in teacher workload, and the picture becomes clearer. Through the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, teachers are required to provide parents, in writing, with lots of paperwork for students that have been identified with a substantial deficit in reading. Paperwork includes notifying the parent, during each quarterly progress report, with information …show more content…
That number is only true if there is a two-parent household. According to the “National Center for Children in Poverty”, more than half of children in Mississippi live in poverty. Include that number with the fact that 36% of those children live with an unemployed parent, 68% of those parents have less than a high school education, more than 50% are African-American, and 10% live in families with no parent presence, parental involvement in the education process becomes non-existent. As stated earlier, the Mississippi Department of Education requires teachers to provide parents with informational instructional strategies to help their child achieve maximum success. The numbers show that most parents are unemployed and uneducated. This means that parents are not trained to interpret data provided by the teachers. By not being able to interpret the data, parents are, in turn, not able to help students with school