States With the Best (and Worst) Schools

Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 01/14/2014 | Thomas C. Frohlich

[Jimmy Valentine]

And as for the District of Columbia? Probably too low to rate

[Gaffer]

We’re still going through firings, court trials and such here in Georgia with Obama’s teachers having got caught in Atlanta and surrounding cheating on the test scores for the children.

[Gaffer]

DC gots schools?

[who knows what evil?]

What a pointless article...all schools preach evil.

[who knows what evil?]

The students themselves and their parents are far more important than what school they go to.

Standing and applauding until my damn hands bleed...

[Joe Boucher]

if you remove blacks and latins from said reviews, American school childrens scores are right up there with the rest of the world.
Course most will say that’s racist.
Yeah, them pesky facts

[Jimmy Valentine]

"DC gots schools?"

More like holding pens for present/future criminals.

[napscoordinator]

Maryland is normally number one! As much as Maryland is a tax taker, They are incredible with schools. I wonder why Mass beat us this year. I would call BS on that if I was Governor O’Malley. Maryland is number one in schools for sure.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— . I wonder why Mass beat us this year. -—

Because they’re pure PC. I live in MA and went to school here. If this is the best, I can’t imagine what the rest is like.

[driftless2]

Like many conservatives, I support good schools and good teachers. But the idea that taking disinterested, often violent students out of bad schools (and there are bad schools) and simply placing them in private schools means many conservatives are as guilty of pie-in-the-sky solutions as liberals.

Liberals are stupid to think white racism holds back black kids. Conservatives are stupid to think low IQ and anti-societal behavior doesn't prevent many kids from learning. Read Robert Weissberg's "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools" to get the lowdown.

[jocon307]

Well that is very good, I really didn’t know that and I’m proud of them! My grandson lives there, he’s just a little baby now and I don’t know if he’ll still be there when he’s school age, but he might be, so I’m glad to hear this.

I was glad to see NJ so high too. I think the only ones I knew were very good were Mass and NH.

[Ironfocus]

My completely anecdotal and biased experience...my kids started school in Finland, generally recognized as one of the best school systems in the world. They also went to school in Georgia, Florida and I still have 2 in school in Texas.

The difference between the Finnish schools and the schools in the USA is as many stated, a homogenous, culturally similar group of learners, along with well-qualified teachers who are not tenure based. It was a good experience, even if they were younger at the time.

In general I thought the Texas schools are better than the Florida and Georgia schools, but that may just be a function of school districts. However, the standards in public schools in all 3 states are horrifically low for non-AP learners.

I removed my oldest from public school when she was in 11th grade, due to bullying issues that were not being addressed, related to her medical condition. When I started home schooling her I was amazed at the lack of research, writing and critical thinking skills she displayed, despite having cruised through her school career up to that point.

She struggled to complete a more advanced curriculum, but she did master it in the end, and is now looking forward to college, studying pharmacology.

[SeekAndFind]

Post #26 above makes a very valid observation based on World PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test scores.

[TurboZamboni]

FWIW, Minneapolis spends $21k per student per year and 50% graduate high school.