According to the Baltimore Sun, Maryland's schools rank first in the nation in an analysis of factors such as high school graduation rates, student achievement, academic standards and accountability done by Education Week. Maryland scored well on the standards for early childhood education and preparing students for college. THANK YOU TEACHERS! (The Sun also reported that the state's worst scores came for its failure to support beginning teachers. Maryland does not fund mentoring programs or give funds to reduce the workloads of first-year teachers. Maryland also got low grades for teacher salaries and incentives.)
Considering the cost of living in Maryland is ridiculous, it's nice to know that our tax dollars will provide our child a good public school education (and hopefully give Mike and the rest of the teachers a raise). Then again, Ohio (#6), Pennsylvania (#7) and Michigan (#16) didn't do too shabby in the analysis and the cost of living is substantially less...at least in Michigan and Ohio. If only we could pick up all of our family members and relocate everyone to OH-IO (that's for Mike).
TOP 10 STATES & SCORES
U.S. Average: C (76.2)
Maryland (84.7)
Massachusetts (84.6)
New York (84.1)
Virginia (83.2)
New Jersey (81.9)
Ohio (81.0)
Pennsylvania (80.3)
West Virginia (80.0)
Georgia (80.0)
Arkansas (79.6)
For those of you interested in learning more about the recently released analysis,check out the following links:
Grading the States: Securing Progress, Striving to Improve
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/08/17sos.h28.html
Overall Grades & Scores
http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2009/17src.h28.html
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