[Vision2020] Dale Courtney: Put this in your pipe and smoke it!

[Donovan Arnold]

Ron,

So you are saying this list put out by Newsweek is
bogus?

OK, I can buy that.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold


--- Ron Force <rforce at moscow.com> wrote:
> The sole criterion for Newsweek's ranking is the
> absolute number of students
> taking Advanced Placement or International
> Baccalaureate tests. Because the
> College Board (a commercial testing company) doesn't
> release the results of
> the tests by school or school district, it just
> measures the number of
> "strivers" -- white upper-middle class students who
> attend a school large
> and affluent enough to offer AP preparation.
> 
> Timberline is twice the size (1097 students) of MHS
> (563); Borah (1531,
> three times. Even if the same, or larger, proportion
> of students at MHS took
> AP, it wouldn't rank as high.
> 
> **********************************************
> Ron Force          Moscow ID USA
> rforce at Moscow.com
> **********************************************
> 
> Question, why is MSD not in the top 1000 schools? We
> spend way more per student. Or did I miss it on the
> list?
> 
> 
>
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