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100 Best High Schools In America Ranked (Three Schools From Virginia Make Top 100)
WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 11-30-2007

Posted on 12/01/2007 10:49:31 AM PST by Cagey

WASHINGTON -- U.S. News & World Report says America's best high school is in Virginia, one of three to make it in the magazine's top 100.

The magazine's first-ever high school rankings give the top honor to Fairfax County's elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Using K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor's, the magazine put high schools in 40 states through a three-step analysis. U.S. News and World measured how each school's students performed on state tests, adjusting for student circumstances. Then it evaluated how well each school's disadvantaged students did. Lastly, they looked at whether the school was successful in providing college-level coursework.

The magazine's analysis considered more than 18,500 high schools in 40 states.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: fairfaxcounty; highschools; tjhsst; topten
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To: Cagey
U.S. News and World measured how each school's students performed on state tests, adjusting for student circumstances. Then it evaluated how well each school's disadvantaged students did. Lastly, they looked at whether the school was successful in providing college-level coursework.

I think I understand why there are a large number of DC schools.

101 posted on 12/02/2007 5:30:49 AM PST by TN4Liberty (A liberal is someone who believes Scooter Libby should be in jail and Bill Clinton should not.)
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To: xsmommy

point taken....issue dead


102 posted on 12/02/2007 9:44:38 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Doesn’t save you money at colleges where they have a MINIMUM hour requirement at a college level institution. All you end up doing is qualifying your kid to take the higher level stuff sooner.


103 posted on 12/02/2007 10:40:54 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Depends on the school, the subject, and the score on the AP exam.


104 posted on 12/02/2007 2:13:13 PM PST by SoftballMominVA (Never wrestle with a pig; he wants to get dirty anyway.)
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To: SoftballMominVA

I was speaking of the universities and colleges with a minimum requirement of instruction at a college or university ~ such that AP courses don’t count against the hourly requirement.


105 posted on 12/02/2007 2:31:09 PM PST by muawiyah
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