They rank number one
“They are using subjective analysis, filtering it through numbers and pretending it’s objective,” he explained. “That conveys to parents to families to shoppers, essentially, false information. They're using metrics that no one would actually want to measure if you were looking at education,” he said.
But if these rankings speak to the quality of education students get in Florida, Bello advises you may want to look somewhere else.
“Basically, somebody just called Florida pretty,” he said, “One of the problems with politicians endorsing these rankings is that they're misleading the public. They're suggesting that these rankings are providing real information about the quality of education when in truth they're not,” he said.
But a closer look at the details behind these rankings had us wondering what it all really means. Is Florida’s No. 1 education title really an indication that students are getting the best of it here?
“You got a positive Yelp review. That’s, in essence, what you just got,”
Florida was recently ranked No. 1 in education by US News & World Report. But what does this title really mean?
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Massachusetts is the smartest state in the U.S. Massachusetts has the highest percentage of Bachelor's degree holders at 42.1% of adults and graduate or professional degree holders at about 32.4%. Additionally, Massachusetts is home to MIT, Harvard, and several other high-ranked institutions.
Where is Florida? Not on the top 10 of smartest states.
Massachusetts
93.90
Connecticut
73.80
Maryland
72.80
Virginia
72.50
Vermont
72.20
New Hampshire
70.50
New Jersey
69.50
Colorado
69.40
Minnesota
67.00
Washington
60.30