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Despite the claims of activists, the Alabama textbook adoption process is a complex legal pathway with a number of steps to get books into the classroom.

Its a cliche that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: "Thank God for Mississippi."

The success has grabbed the attention of educators nationally by showing rapid progress is possible anywhere, even in areas that have struggled for decades with poverty and dismal literacy rates.

Kids' Reading Scores Have Soared In Deep South States

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms

Mississippi went from being ranked the second-worst state in 2013 for fourth-grade reading to 21st in 2022. Louisiana and Alabama, meanwhile…

The turnaround in these three states has grabbed the attention of educators nationally.

Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms.

States from the Gulf South, specifically Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, have become a model in education after a series of reforms showed rapid progress in fourth-grade reading.