Thank you for this. It is mighty interesting. What is your opinion on West Virginia seriously. Yieks!
West Virginia obviously has HORRIBLE schools, but they are also a DEMOCRATIC (blue) state.
West Virginia has no excuses.
I would like to see mandatory IQ tests for all public school students entering Kindergarten.
Then, when looking later at testing rankings based on test scores for graduating seniors, those original IQ test scores should be taken into account.
In other words, which state did the best job of educating it’s children considering what they were given to work with.
I suspect a state like Maryland would still do very well in the rankings and a state like West Virginia would still do really poorly, but the breakdown in the rest of the states might be altered dramatically.