Indiana’s number 9?
:: boggle ::
I thought upper half, maybe, but top 10?
Wow… go us!
Wow, we just beat the coal miners and polygamists. Woohoo!
Ok this is too funny. West Virginia, aka The Sticks, scored an 18; whereas Virginia, the place that houses William and Mary… the University that is famed to have graduated the most US presidents (if I recall correctly), ranks 37. I would have thought Northern Virginia would have at least moderately skewed those statistics.
jackelope, New Mexico is a fairly poor state with a larger than average rural minority population. This might account for the descrepancy you mentioned.
Texas isn’t in the low 40’s?
Alaska is 25? Which is odd considering in 1st grade in Alaska I was taught programing and photography and what later realized was the beginning of algerba.*
- I was in some sort of really bizzare gifted program however.
Jeez, Florida’s moved up a notch or two… #47 isn’t so bad when you consider the fact that the legislation is decided in a larger part by people who are retired and have kids in other states. Most of them don’t give a rat’s ass if the public school education in their state sucks because they don’t have to deal with it. This is why I went to a private college preparatory school on scholarship. It was a much better education thatn public school, but it still wasn’t up to par on the level of college preparatory schools in the north. Oh well. At least I’m educated and I can speak pretty well on some topics because I have a decent knowledge base to work from.
There’s many an Illinoisan who would be dismayed to see their home state at #33 and Wisconsin at #6.
For my part, no comment.
Alaska isn’t in the low 40’s.
How odd, considering they teach 1st graders “algerba”.
Texan 
Thank goodness, I got edumicated in small town TN. Which isn’t as bad as the larger cities like Nashville and Memphis, maybe because of the student/teacher ratio. When I moved to Nashville as a Senior in H.S., I couldn’t believe how behind they were.
And the verbal grammar was unbelievable, from teachers and students. I got made fun of for using proper grammar with my country accent.
I heard on the news this morning that Metro Nashville is trying to figure out what to do with all their * adult* H.S. students. Evidently, there’s a quite a few 18+ students in grades 9-12, that are unlikely to graduate their way out of the school system. :rolleyes:
Heh, I don’t think small town Tennessee is much better. Depends on how small the town is. Those high schools up in the sticks with a total population of 50 probably don’t get many really good teachers.
My school system is excellent, but the schools in dirt-poor counties really close by are not so good. Surely not as bad as the inner-city schools, but not a school system I would want to attend.
Yay! Tied with Alabama at 41st! I knew there was something wrong with my state when half the kids at my school thought the Earth was 6,000 years old.
I knew there was a good reason why I moved out of Illinois and into Wisconsin to go to school.
And, if I may say so myself, all the trees in Wisconsin bend south. 
Hmmm … Florida’s near the bottom of the list, right above Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico.
I went to school in New York (#26 on the list) until I was 16. Can I at least average the scores?
Wyoming got #8?
Wow I guess when there really is nothing to do in your state , kids will even resort to studying.
Oooh. South Carolina is #36.
Not too bad.
But wait, there’s, like, 50 states, right? So that means we are, like, only, like, 5, 6 away from the, like, bottom 10.
I guess #19’s not so bad, considering we come in 50th when it comes to educational funding. So what excuses do the other 31 states have?
We’re #1! We’re #1!
New Mexico so very rarely comes in first for anything.
We’re #4!
Toxic waste must be good for the brain cells.
Iowa is in the Big Ten.
algerba… heh.
Dave Barry roasts just about any state with pretensions of superiority.
After all Washington’s motto could also mean “manana.”