Morgan is a company that rates states and cities on various different criteria including education.
I don't disagree with you that citizenship is important but for good or bad, that is not an educational criteria. My post was in response to another post commenting on the poor quality of a New Jersey student's textbook. I do not question the accuracy of that post, I was simply pointing out that New Jersey's overall education system is rated excellent. There are some very bad districts but more good ones that produce top notch students who can function in New Jersey's technology and medical driven business economy.
If citizenship skills were the sole basis for evaluating education, then most states would fail miserably including your own state of Florida where a significant number of students know more about Cuba etc. than they do about the US.
People who want to rank high control the criteria. I was citing John Dewey who has a lot more clout in ed circles than Morgan.