Best Public High Schools In The U.S.
Niche has ranked 14,431 U.S. high schools for overall quality based on student and parent opinion surveys. Looking at just the top 25 some amazing results pop out: 22 of the top 25 ranked high schools come from just 5 states: Illinois (7) and four each from California, New York and Texas. New Jersey has three on the list. The other three in the top 25 come from Georgia, Michigan and Virginia. Only two more states join the top eight in the second 25 (Florida and Pennsylvania). Twelve more states appear in the top 100. There are 28 states plus the District of Columbia not making the top 100 high school list.
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Disclosure: None
I'm not at all certain as to whether I should agree with this ranking of US universities. No, I'm not certain at all, because where my 'speciality' (energy economics) is concerned, just about all of those institutions mentioned are ____ poor.
Of course, considering that a recent US president and graduate of an elite university started a war on the basis of a lie, and the present Commander-in-Chief belongs in show business instead of the White House, perhaps education is not as important as commonly believed. Energy too, because if the 2.5 trillion squandered on stupid wars had gone to providing or preparing to provide the energy (and the education) that Amercans are going to need, people like me could forget about teaching or claiming to teach energy economics, and devote my time to something that the 'market' considers constructive..