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States Ranked From Smartest to Dumbest
Netscape News ^ | 11/7/2004 | Netscape News

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.

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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


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: education; fantasy; rigged; topten
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To: Rocko
Not bad!

Not good enough. Your state needs to get better.

21 posted on 11/07/2004 8:36:40 AM PST by Archangelsk (Plain, simple soldier. Nothing more, nothing less.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Before Jeb became our governor, Florida was 49th on the list of education spending. I guess we're smarter now than we were then.


22 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:01 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Mr. Keys

Yes, Massachusetts keeps electing a drunken murderer year after year. Now, that's smart!


23 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:01 AM PST by MaryJaneNC
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To: pepsi_junkie
It's a ranking of how Metrosexual and DemonRat the states are.

SO9

24 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:14 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (What I just said.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

The tests are culturally biased against Blacks, Hispanics and native Texans.


25 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:16 AM PST by bayourod (Specter's litmus test : "No Christian Judges")
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To: pepsi_junkie

I've known many professors in my studies, who in the end, were IDIOTS when it came to common sense.

A college eduction does NOT a wise man make!

Rush can tell you more about that one.


26 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:38 AM PST by BP2
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To: pepsi_junkie

"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/)


27 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:45 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: pepsi_junkie

I'm guessing, private schools don't add to the states smarts, right?


28 posted on 11/07/2004 8:37:51 AM PST by moehoward
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To: pepsi_junkie

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?


29 posted on 11/07/2004 8:38:26 AM PST by Still Thinking
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To: pepsi_junkie

BOOOOOOGUS!


30 posted on 11/07/2004 8:38:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: pepsi_junkie

South Carolina #32!!?? Come on! We're much dumber than that. I demand a recount.


31 posted on 11/07/2004 8:39:18 AM PST by AndrewB
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To: pepsi_junkie; WKB

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.


32 posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:01 AM PST by onyx (John "F" Kerry is now the final casualty of the Vietnam War!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

That title has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.


33 posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:03 AM PST by SaveTheChief ("It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." - Senator Zell Miller)
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To: Se7eN
See my post No. 20 - Florida suffers from a high number of first generation immigrants - same issues as Texas
34 posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:11 AM PST by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: Archangelsk

I'm working on it.


35 posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:20 AM PST by Rocko (Congratulations, President Bush!)
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To: Still Thinking

It would be the same as tallying the population totals by the number 'libraries' in a city!


36 posted on 11/07/2004 8:40:28 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: pepsi_junkie
This is a bullsh*t "study" that has been posted and debunked before. If you analyze the 21 (IIRC) factors, they track the goals of the American "Edukashun" Association. They are keyed to spending in public education, and totally ignore private and parochial schools and homeschooling.

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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37 posted on 11/07/2004 8:41:32 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (Visit: www.ArmorforCongress.com please.)
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To: Bigh4u2

Sorry!

number OF libraries


38 posted on 11/07/2004 8:41:37 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

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


39 posted on 11/07/2004 8:41:49 AM PST by Libertina (We praise You Lord, You have granted America a Christian leader!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

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.


40 posted on 11/07/2004 8:41:52 AM PST by Natural Law
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