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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

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To: ml/nj
LOL

I looked for Catalina High School in Tucson (obscure ref to recent immigration flap). It HAS to be a good school, after all, folks are entering the country illegally just to go to school there.

It is a ‘magnet’ school - they just attract the wrong kind of filings.....

21 posted on 12/01/2007 11:09:22 AM PST by ASOC
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To: Cagey

My alma mater’s on the list.

Shocking, eh?

; )


22 posted on 12/01/2007 11:09:38 AM PST by Redcloak (This post certified 100% Hillary-free. um... Never mind.)
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To: Cagey
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.

1) performed on state tests: What about the quality of the state test?

2) how well disadvantaged students did: what about how well the best students did?

3) college-level coursework: Uh, sex-ed and feminazi ethics?

23 posted on 12/01/2007 11:10:27 AM PST by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I spent some time in Virginia while serving in the Army and at the time the State of VA tourism board had come up with a catchy phrase which appeared on tens of thousands of bumper stickers. “Virginia is for Lovers”. It was great marketing, but I was too preoccupied in the service to take advantage.

That said, I am not plugging Virginia at all. I just copied the headline from the source.


24 posted on 12/01/2007 11:11:40 AM PST by Cagey (Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
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To: donna
You don't even get to Step 3, if you cannot get by Step 2.

ML/NJ

25 posted on 12/01/2007 11:13:17 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Cagey
made an issue out of three from Virginia

I would imagine the reason is that Virginia had the number one high school.

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.

26 posted on 12/01/2007 11:13:30 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: Cagey

and by the looks of it; most of those are in Westchester...the most taxed to death county in New York...full of limo libs by the way.


27 posted on 12/01/2007 11:15:12 AM PST by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Cagey

High Schools are for partyin’, cars, and etc....all else is irrelevant...


28 posted on 12/01/2007 11:19:12 AM PST by dakine
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To: Cagey; Salvation
My son graduated from Lake Oswego High School in 1985. He was a National Merit winner, Senior Class President, captain of the soccer team and valedictorian. At the time, the school was ranked in the Top 50. Two other Oregon high schools were ranked in the top 100. Now the state is nowhere to be seen.

Today the entire state is swimming in debt. The lottery was supposed to raise money for education. Instead, it created a $ 250 million slush fund the governor can tap to give millions to political cronies. The kiddie rapist got about $ 5 million a year. Just goes to show what the Democrats can do to ruin education.

29 posted on 12/01/2007 11:19:27 AM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
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To: xsmommy
also, they only looked at public high schools.

You're right.

I think Newsweak has been the one that has done all schools for many years. I don't remember if they do seperate lists for public and private, but I do know that my alma mater (a Catholic school) has made that list many, many times.

30 posted on 12/01/2007 11:19:39 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I thought the same thing. 20 are from California, but i wouldn’t want to live there!


31 posted on 12/01/2007 11:23:12 AM PST by dawn53
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To: cammie

This was my question too. I noticed that two schools near me are on the list, and one is a regular high school where, if you live in the district, you go there. The other is a magnet school that gets thousands of applications each year and takes 200 students in 9th grade.

How many of these schools are such that if you live in their district, you can automatically attend? How many are test-to-enter schools?


32 posted on 12/01/2007 11:25:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Cagey

These are all public schools correct?


33 posted on 12/01/2007 11:26:43 AM PST by enough_idiocy (www.daypo.net/test-iraq-war.html)
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To: Cagey

Perhaps because of the large difference in population. Virginia has far fewer students.


34 posted on 12/01/2007 11:28:13 AM PST by the Real fifi
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To: ml/nj
So if you locale doesn't have any "disadvantaged" students your local school is disqualified from being "judged nationally."

And remember that if Johnny has a black grandfather or a Hispanic surname, then he will declare himself to be that minority. Because for these issues, it's "better" to be a minority, someone who has white AND black heritage will automatically call himself black.

35 posted on 12/01/2007 11:30:29 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: xsmommy

“also, they only looked at public high schools.”

Couldn’t have a private high school like Helias in Jefferson City,
Mo on the list.

As they retain the politically-incorrect team name of “The Crusaders”.


36 posted on 12/01/2007 11:31:11 AM PST by VOA
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To: Cagey

Three from Cincinnati in the top one hundred. Read all about it on page 7 of the B section of the Enquirer.


37 posted on 12/01/2007 11:39:38 AM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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To: xsmommy
Yes, total BS! Can't let people know that homeschooling and Christian schools are the best.

We analyzed 18,790 public high schools in 40 states using data from the 2005-2006 school year.

38 posted on 12/01/2007 11:40:20 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark; xsmommy
Yes, total BS! Can't let people know that homeschooling and Christian schools are the best.

No - it is not total BS.......there are other lists that list Christian and other private schools. Listing homeschools is not going to occur in such a manner, so aattempting to try something like that is the total BS.

This list specifically looked at public schools, so where is the BS?????

39 posted on 12/01/2007 11:44:09 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Cagey

Oh,oh — Missouri flunked out. Guess I’ll eat some worms!


40 posted on 12/01/2007 11:45:03 AM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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