https://t.co/BZXzEoyBgC

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

This rude comment actually kind of gets to the point. Chicago's mayor argues that he "poverty still exists" when the city sees an 8-year high death toll during Memorial Day Weekend. MS now beats most states in the country on reading *while being poor.* https://t.co/aQ3BKOrpF9

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

"You cannot use poverty as an excuse. That’s the most important lesson," is a quote directly from Kristof's article. People who argue you can't do anything about these problems because the world ain't perfect are wrong.

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

One the NAEP is the gold standard in tests it's not "a single reading test." Two, MS just recently made these gains after reforms. You expect it to go from poorest state to richest in a few years? Education is a generational investment. https://t.co/1OLdOU5J8m

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

This would be like arguing China or India were poor in 2000 so they weren't doing anything correctly. The education decisions they made in those years helped them become rival powers today, that's what education+literacy do.

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

There are definitely some people on this website who see Democrat or Republican before they see anything else. Even the associated press and new york times are writing positive articles about these reading strategies Mississippi is using. Why denigrate them?

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 1, 2023

Feel like one or both of us mentions Prep for Prep etc every year and still ppl are surprised to learn it bc the NYT pretends it doesn’t exist or isn’t relevant.

— What is an Alice? (@AliceFromQueens) June 4, 2023