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In the middle of a crisis for American education,
with reading and math scores down across much of the country, one place has managed a stunning turnaround.
Mississippi, one of the poorest states in America.
Today, my colleague Sarah Mervash on how Mississippi may have pulled off an educational miracle.
And what a deep red state could teach us about how to educate our kids.
It's Friday, April 10th.
Sarah, you 've been spending time looking into what is being called the Mississippi miracle,
this unthinkable improvement in the state's schooling.
I want to start by asking you first to just lay out what that improvement has actually looked like,