http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/


8 of the top 20 schools are in Florida, which has been implementing a version of No Child Left Behind for about 6 years now.

9 of the top 10 are in the South, where the prevailing presumption here and in general is that we are all under-educated bumpkins. Alabama is much maligned on this forum but has the top school in the country.

4 of the top 200 are in my county.

Please note how overwhelmingly Florida dominates this list.


Catz

We are already discussing this here:

http://www.politicalforum.com/viewto...=asc&&start=45

I have already singled out Florida and the North v. South discussion is already in progress.

EDIT: And I can't speak for others, but I never lump Florida in with the rest of the South (when talking about country-bumpkin-ness).

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on a thread demeaning the south to be a replacement for a discussion solely of this topic.

Catz

How appropriate is this method for determing a top school? Advanced Placement testing per graduating senior? What does that mean, exactly? Does it say anything about how they did on those tests?

On the list....Highland Park High School in Dallas, I am very familiar with and would expect to be on the list. But W. T. White....also in Dallas, I wouldn't have expected to be on the list. And yet it is.

And hey.....I noticed that Minnesota doesn't have even ONE on the list of the top 100. I thought they had such a great school system. At least that's what someone from there told me.

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Ok, but I think the other thread will be more entertaining.

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My high school made it in the 700-800 range

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Wow, what a stupid way of determining how good high schools are.

Wouldnt a better system be intercalculating the

actual grades of such exams...rate of graduation...rate of going to college... how good the colleges are... average student grade (maybe)... sat scores... grades on other standardized tests... amount of money made by graduates... IQ scores.... blah blah blah

Or maybe the best one yet, the literacy/writing rate of graduates, which is surely the most important thing one learns on school.

I mean, wow. If I was on ritalin I couldnt think of a worse way of calculating how good the high schools are.

I mean, I live in eastern massachusetts. We have all of those famous preppy private high schools all the rich kids go to. And yet i cant even find them. (even you guys can admit theres something wrong with that)

I mean wow!

[quote]Yup, anyone with a library card and calculator can get published these days.

"4 of the top 200 are in my county. " - catzmeow

Cool, catzmeow, only 2 of the top 100 are in my county.
The same two schools that are the only Alabama schools in the top 1000.

But no matter, all rankings of all things are arbitrary. The percentage of a graduating class who later become CEO's and didn't go to jail for milking stockholders might be another gauge of academic excellance.

But of course, lists and stats only guide our thoughts and give us something to chat about, while cold grey reality looms ominously ahead.

And by the way, catzmeow, any friend of John Stuart Mill is a friend of mine.

Wow...WASHINGTON High School (here in Denver) made it into the top 100? Never would have guessed that. Washington fits a lot of the inner-city stereotypes.