I have been thinking a lot lately about how to establish a high caliber of standards that would make something like World School desirable for people interested in alternative educational options for their children. For the first leg in this journey I kept it close to home, looking at how each state in the USA stacks up to each other, and how those rankings are established. My hope is to then venture outside of our borders to consider the reading, science, and math programs of countries like Great Britain, Japan, and India for example. It seems like an appropriate avenue for World School.
I started by looking at some national rankings that Morgan Quitno put together in a book called Education State Rankings 2005-2006. He ranked schools for the past four years based on a number of factors. One of the factors was the amount of money schools had to spend on their students. It was no surprise then, why New England schools were at the top of the list and Deep South schools were at the bottom. This had a large impact on how states ranked. So for the most current rankings, that part of the equation was removed. Click on the link to see the rankings and what contributed to their placement. Incidentally, the New England schools are still at the top of the list.
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