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
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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