Public High School rankings in America.

[BW from AZ]

Originally Posted by Nebe

the No Child Left behind Act is killing the schools as well. Programs for the gifted are cut to provide more money for the masses of kids who have had thier brians turned inside out by too much TV, Video games, etc... Or at lest thats the impression i get when i listen to highshcool aged kids.

Out here we got it bad. From don’t ask don’t tell (legal resident) To treating every kid the same, just cookie cutter education. If you can’t fit their plans its tuff. Kids can’t follow their own path. they have to take classes to pass the aims test and what is required for collage entrance, not much left for the individual anymore. They have killed the love for learning and it shows in the schools scores. The kids can graduate from collage and not know how to get through life on their own. Who decided the system was broke and fixed it? BW

[fishpoopoo]

Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors.

An objective and easy to calculate measure. I'm not sure it's a very GOOD measure, since simply taking an AP or IB test doesn't mean you're going to pass it or do well on it.

[Rappin Mikey]

I can't believe Holyoke Public Schools didn't make the list.

[nightprowler]

my high school was number 150