News
US schools ranked
A comprehensive review of 18,000 public high schools in 40 states of America shows it isn’t only the most selective that perform well.
US News, with research company School Evaluation Services, put schools through a three-step analysis. The top 100 were given gold awards. In first-place was Thomas Jefferson High School in suburban Washington, DC, which picks its students from the children of the nation's leaders. Yet only ten places lower, Hidalgo High School, which borders Texas and Mexico, comprises the children of challenged immigrants.
The review looked at how students performed on state tests (with adjustments for student circumstances), how well disadvantaged students fared and the college-level coursework produced.
To view the full rankings visit US News
Subscribe to Emigrate magazine. Read more ...
21 January 2008