Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Where does your high school rank?
Based on AP and IB exams, Newsweek ranked the top 1,000 high schools in the United States. Not a single West Virginia school in the top 100, but Chagrin Falls High School's there. Gee, surprising. In fact, there are only two W.Va. schools in the top 1,000, and they're at the very bottom (Morgantown and Charleston). I really don't think those tests are accurate indicators seeing as how better-off students are usually taking those exams. Read more here. I may be overly sensitive, but I know when I was in high school, AP courses weren't available. You could take the exams, of course, but they cost money -- and you didn't know whether you were prepared adequately for them. Or maybe I was a wimp.
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