What data is considered for High School Rankingsfor K-12 general interest? Newsweek Magazine is the most popular publication that ranks public high schools, and most high schools strive for inclusion. Newsweek journalist Jay Mathews devised the formula used by the magazine to determine which schools make the list. It looks at how many students took [...]
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Principals Affect High School Rankings for K-12 General Interest
January 16th, 2010 
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No Comments »How Test Scores Affect School Rankings
January 13th, 2010 Admin If you’ve got a child in public school as young as third grade, you’re already starting to feel the testing frenzy. School administrators, teachers, and your child are all feeling the pressure to take and live up to state and national standards of learning. Those test results will be published in your local paper, appear [...]
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