Newsweek's annual ranking of the top 500 public high schools in the country. Scores are based on a weighted composite of graduation rate, college matriculation, SAT/AP scores, and other parameters.
It's notable that quite a few of the top 100 appear to be science, technology, math, and engineering magnet schools.
I wonder how many of them teach creationism as science...
Newsweek's annual ranking of the top 500 public high schools in the country. Scores are based on a weighted composite of graduation rate, college matriculation, SAT/AP scores, and other parameters.
It's notable that quite a few of the top 100 appear to be science, technology, math, and engineering magnet schools.
I wonder how many of them teach creationism as science...
It's telling that post-graduation employment, post-graduation salary, and non-college path results are not part of the rankings. They're really just rankings of "which schools best serve the top 25% of students."
Until that myopic view changes, public education will continue to screw the majority of kids and our economy as a whole.
__________________ -Thom
"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." -Proverbs 26:11
It's telling that post-graduation employment, post-graduation salary, and non-college path results are not part of the rankings. They're really just rankings of "which schools best serve the top 25% of students."
Until that myopic view changes, public education will continue to screw the majority of kids and our economy as a whole.
Good or not, its becoming increasingly difficult to move up without a college education. So the biggest weighted factors are graduation rate and college matriculation, which would make sense for gauging how well the HS is preparing students for the future.
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I am a Christian. I am a liberal. No, these two are not mutually exclusive. Accept it and move on.
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"
- Oscar Wilde
"I may disagree with everything you say, but will defend unto death your right to say it."
- Voltaire
It's telling that post-graduation employment, post-graduation salary, and non-college path results are not part of the rankings. They're really just rankings of "which schools best serve the top 25% of students."
Until that myopic view changes, public education will continue to screw the majority of kids and our economy as a whole.
Unfortunately, the manufacturing sector that once provided well-paying factory jobs for non-college educated folks is shrinking. Going overseas. The skilled trades are a great option. High-quality public vocational training (as an alternative to the expensive and questionably beneficial for-profit "career colleges") would be a great service for students not bound for higher education. Then there could be a ranking of the best public trade schools, which would meaningful and informative for a lot of people.
__________________ When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all.
Our highschool in Idaho gave us college courses in 11th grade. I have friends in different states that graduated without even having the skills to write. What's happening is teacher-student ratio is not getting any better.
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