[OC] Where Students Can Count – % of 8th Grade Students At or Above Proficient in Math by State (NAEP Scores 2024)

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19 comments

  1. Why does it stop at 35%? Seems like a pretty low bar, and also a represents a large population.

    Also, the irregular bin sizing drives me nuts.

  2. Strong correlation between being north and able to count.

  3. When the highest percentage is still only “more than 35%” 😶

  4. In other news, New Jersey and Massachusetts are generally ranked 1 and 2 in the nation (in some order) in terms of public school quality.

    Wisconsin surprised me, but I don’t know whether it also has excellent schools

  5. What can the US do to fix this? Looking at the state of how education is treated, it’s pretty obvious the Northern states will likely widen the gap even more over time. 

  6. In the case of Wisconsin thank our Governor Tony Evers, who was a teacher for many years and eventually ended up state superintendent of public instruction for a decade before replacing dumbass Scott Walker. He places a high importance on education here and it shows.

  7. Not being from the US, it has always looked like a third world country pretending to be a first world country to me. This just confirms my opinion further.

    Holy shit!

  8. Should be a national scandal, future looks grim and made even worse when you consider the effects of immigration policies, the attacks on academic freedom etc,; no longer attracting the best and brightest from abroad. Anti-intellectualism and dumbing down the population might make people more pliant but not more productive.

  9. WI – Take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

  10. If only I could understand this chart with all those fancy numbers!

  11. What the hell is wrong with Alabama. How do people survive in a state that’s consistently last in all metrics of productivity and intellect.

  13. every time I take a look at the US’s education statistics I start to understand why their political situation is the way it is.

  14. Looks like we need to lower the standards… that’s sad you’d think there’d be some with at least 50%

  15. I want to see a test that measures problem solving skills, reasoning and imagination not calculator skills. The educational model in the USA is still based on the worst part of the 19th century. Rank and file instead of organic, competition instead of cooperation, hierarchy instead of teams.

  16. The NAEP uses random selection, but the student has to voluntarily take the 90 minute test and there is no incentive to do so.

  17. Nice to see us (Wisconsin) winning at something besides the “drunkest cities in the US” chart.

  19. This chart is horrifying. Where I live and grew up our stats would equate to roughly 50% and if you’d asked me about how I felt about I probably would have sighed a bit and answered “Not great but I guess a lot of people struggle with math. We should really do better.” That so few US states even clear the 35% mark is a stark indictment of the US education system.

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