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NEWSWEEK, which has been ranking the top public high schools in America for more than a decade, revamped its methodology this year in hopes of highlighting solutions. We enlisted a panel of experts—Wendy Kopp of Teach For America, Tom Vander Ark of Open Education Solutions (formerly executive director for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor of education and founder of the School Redesign Network—to develop a yardstick that fully reflects a school’s success turning out college-ready (and life-ready) students. To this end, each school’s score is comprised of six components: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), AP tests taken per graduate (25%), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10%), and AP courses offered (5%). (
America's Best High Schools - Newsweek
Interesting list. What I'd like to see is a further breakdown of parental income and education, race, and disabilities.
Cherry Hill East NJ was 226. Cherry Hill West was 402.. I'd love to see the researchers do a "twin study". Same budget, teacher qualifications, curriculum and course offerings, methods, sports, etc. , yet East scored so much higher.
I am familiar with the difference in demographics of these two schools. One significant difference (besides household income) is that "East" has a large number of Chinese students. Hmmmm. Educational social justice? Perhaps these "reformers" might want to look at "Redistribution of the Chinese". It's not fair!!!!
Seriously, educational research needs to compare apples to apples. They might want to look at Cherry Hill. (Attention Gov. Christie!)
The entire list is at the link. Anyone know anything about these schools?
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