Your data is a little out of date, this article covers the gist of it. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/12/22/georgia-looks-mississippi-help-children-learn-read/

Mississippi school literacy rates are now near the top in the country, they stuck to phonics instead of that new style

You don't get the joke.

If you look up Expedition To The Barrier Peaks it's a dnd module from the 80s where the party investigates a crashed spaceship and deals with robots and aliens, it's still pretty good I'd say