So on average, the kids in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and West Virginia are all better educated that California?
Damn....just damn....
I’d have to point out that the article (at least the excerpt) just talks about people who’ve completed high school. This includes adult immigrants who don’t have a high school education. A state with a small population and a high proportion of people with advanced degrees (I believe a poster mentioned New Mexico has the highest amount of PhDs per capita due to Los Alamos and something else) would rank highly on this list irrespective of the educational level of its students. I suspect California has a larger amount of people with advanced degrees, but they constitute a smaller portion of the population.