Posted on 11/07/2004 8:25:55 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
Not good enough. Your state needs to get better.
Before Jeb became our governor, Florida was 49th on the list of education spending. I guess we're smarter now than we were then.
Yes, Massachusetts keeps electing a drunken murderer year after year. Now, that's smart!
SO9
The tests are culturally biased against Blacks, Hispanics and native Texans.
"These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, "
Since goverment shoves billions of dollars in the hell hole called 'public education', private schools can't compete and therefore it's students are 'too stupid' to know how dumb they really are! (sarc/)
I'm guessing, private schools don't add to the states smarts, right?
If you want to find out who's the smartest, wouldn't it be less ideological to simply test intelligence, rather than methods the researchers BELIEVE will result in good results? (Class size, per pupil expenditures). Isn't that like deciding where people are happiest, not by asking the people, but by counting public parks?
BOOOOOOGUS!
South Carolina #32!!?? Come on! We're much dumber than that. I demand a recount.
If Massachusetts is ranked the smartest, and Mississippi is a lowly #47 but votes GOP by 60%, then I CHOOSE to remain dumb and AMERICAN in Mississippi.
This is laughable.
No wonder liberal elites have such lofty opinions of themselves.
That title has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.
I'm working on it.
It would be the same as tallying the population totals by the number 'libraries' in a city!
When education is measured by two factors -- how many students graduate from high school, and how well they do on standardized tests along the way -- North Dakota comes out near or at the top of the list, every year. Yet ND is squarely in the middle of average cost per student.
The dirty little secret is that spending is nearly unrelated to educational achievement. And that is the central reason why this "study" was doomed to reach phony results by the very design of its input factors.
Congressman Billybob
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Sorry!
number OF libraries
Now we're 30 (lower middle) and working our way up because we voted DINO ROSSI and ROB MCKENNA! he he he
Our resident socialists probably think that had they pushed through their BILLION dollar "education" tax...er..."investment", we'd be sitting at the top of the heap with the east coast elite! (Who will always look down on them) LOL
Are they asking which state has the highest average IQ or the greater number of high IQ's. Kind of hard to believe that CA, with Cal Tech, Cal Poly, Stanford, Cal, lawrence Livermore Labs,high tech industries and silicon valley isn't in the top 5.
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