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To determine the Best High Schools national rankings, schools were first analyzed at the state level in terms of how well students in each school performed on state assessments. -- U.S. NewsI find it implausible that The School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas should be named the "top public high school in the country." While I'm sure it's a perfectly good school for those students it selects, I find the name to be presumptuous. After all, aren't all of our children talented and gifted in different way? Of course by talented and gifted, they mean, high-scoring on standardized tests. OK then why not just face up to the fact that you are only teaching kids who score high and then reaping awards from some business mag for having students with high test scores.
Among U.S. News' top 20 high schools are four charter schools, "which usually
“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
Maurice Sendak is gone. But we should make Max's cry from Where the Wild Things Are, the thme of the upcoming SOS People's Platform Convention, Aug. 3-5 in D.C.