Posted on 11/07/2004 8:25:55 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
States Ranked From Smartest to Dumbest
The smartest state in the union for the second consecutive year is Massachusetts. The dumbest, for the third year in a row, is New Mexico.
Search by state for reports on the local schools.
These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of hundreds of public school systems in all 50 states. States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, student reading and math proficiency, and pupil-teacher ratios. States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence.
You may be surprised by this! The U.S. city with the smartest people is...
How does YOUR state rank?
1. Massachusetts
2. Connecticut
3. Vermont
4. New Jersey
5. Wisconsin
6. New York
7. Minnesota
8. Iowa
9. Pennsylvania
10. Montana
11. Maine
12. Virginia
13. Nebraska
14. New Hampshire
15. Kansas
16. Wyoming
17. Indiana
18. Maryland
19. North Dakota
20. Ohio
21. Colorado
22. South Dakota
23. Rhode Island
24. Illinois
25. North Carolina
26. Missouri
27. Delaware
28. Utah
29. Idaho
30. Washington
31. Michigan
32. South Carolina
33. Texas and West Virginia (tie)
35. Oregon
36. Arkansas
37. Kentucky
38. Georgia
39. Florida
40. Oklahoma
41. Tennessee
42. Hawaii
43. California
44. Alabama
45. Alaska
46. Louisiana
47. Mississippi
48. Arizona
49. Nevada
50. New Mexico
They are trying to prove that predominately white states are smarter than predominately black or Hispanic states. It's more of the left's hidden racism coming out. They do not like blacks or Hispanics and would prefer to live in their lilly-white Connecticuts and Vermonts than New Mexico and Mississippi with all of "them." It makes me sick. I can't understand why an African-American would ever vote Democrat.
Here are all the states' rankings for graduate degree holders: 1. Washington, D.C.: 23.6 percent 2. Massachusetts: 14.5 percent 3. Maryland: 14.1 percent 4. Connecticut: 13.7 percent 5. Virginia: 12.9 percent 6. New York: 12.6 percent 7. Vermont: 12.3 percent 8. Colorado: 11.5 percent 8. New Jersey: 11.5 percent 10. New Mexico: 11.0 percent 11. Illinois: 10.6 percent 12. New Hampshire: 10.5 percent 13. Washington: 10.1 percent 13. California: 10.1 percent 15. Rhode Island: 9.9 percent 16. Alaska: 9.8 percent 17. Oregon: 9.5 percent 18. Minnesota: 9.3 percent 19. Delaware: 9.2 percent 20. Kansas: 8.9 percent 20: Missouri: 8.9 percent 20. Pennsylvania: 8.9 percent 23. Hawaii: 8.8 percent 24. Florida: 8.5 percent 25. Michigan: 8.3 percent 26. Arizona: 8.2 percent 27. Texas: 8.0 percent 28. Georgia: 7.9 percent 28. Utah: 7.9 percent 30. Maine: 7.8 percent 31. North Carolina: 7.7 percent 31. South Carolina: 7.7 percent 31. Indiana: 7.7 percent 34. Ohio: 7.6 percent 35. Montana: 7.5 percent 35. Kentucky: 7.5 percent 35. Alabama: 7.5 percent 38. Nebraska: 7.4 percent 39. Wisconsin: 7.2 percent 39. Wyoming: 7.2 percent 41: Idaho: 7.1 percent 42. Tennessee: 7.1 percent 43. Louisiana: 6.7 percent 43. North Dakota: 6.7 percent 45. West Virginia: 6.6 percent 46. Oklahoma: 6.5 percent 46. Arkansas: 6.5 percent 48. Iowa: 6.3 percent 49. South Dakota: 6.1 percent 50. Nevada: 5.9 percent 51: Mississippi: 5.8 percent
Massachusetts is a fair-sized city.
Funny that test scores don't enter into the equation at all.
color me
RED DUMB FAT AND HAPPY
RED?
As in NECK, I hope?
Have you seen the so-called IQ chart floating around the internet, showing how smart the blue states are as opposed to the red states? It's obviously an urban legend, but several many so-called "smart" Democrats think it's real!
But it's still fallacious to try to measure "smart" by implication from other variables. If you want to measure smart, measure smart. If you want to measure class size, say so in the title of your survey.
Oh, I agree. This survey is very stupid. Smarts should not be measured by these variables. But class size does matter, despite what some might say.
What we need is to spend less time at Friday night football (and basketball, baseball, cheerleading, etc.) and spend more time on building solid academic foundations (at, mind you, the local level). This will lead our youth to solving an ever increasing array of complex problems that face the nation and the world.
Point of logic - it doesn't have to be the rule, as it's a true story that's an exception to and disproof of your rule:"Just goes to show, no bucks, no Buck Rogers."
The point I was making was that $$ was NOT the limiting factor.
Some teacher cared and some parent helped. If, as in the movie, the parent didn't think rockets were a reasonable effort, the parent at least instilled a work & responsibility ethic.
There's another thread tonight, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273978/posts that points out that even with close $8000/kid, the Flint MI schools can't do much if the kids and parents don't care.
Sure, I'll accept that, especially since you seem to have first hand experience.
New York and New Jersey both have large numbers of Blacks and Hispanics.
The counties that show the largest percentages of African Americans are also the counties with the largest populations in the two states in question.
Note that I'm not agreeing with the results of the study -- I'm saying the methodology of the study is faulty.
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