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.
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.....
My alma mater’s on the list.
Shocking, eh?
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
High Schools are for partyin’, cars, and etc....all else is irrelevant...
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.
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.
I thought the same thing. 20 are from California, but i wouldn’t want to live there!
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?
These are all public schools correct?
Perhaps because of the large difference in population. Virginia has far fewer students.
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.
“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”.
Three from Cincinnati in the top one hundred. Read all about it on page 7 of the B section of the Enquirer.
We analyzed 18,790 public high schools in 40 states using data from the 2005-2006 school year.
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?????
Oh,oh — Missouri flunked out. Guess I’ll eat some worms!
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