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10-12-2009, 20:39
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Re: Newsweek's Top High Schools
I'd take these lists and rankings with a grain of salt. Okay... a dump truck of salt.
While I'm sure there are some very good schools on the list, the ranking is based on a pretty arbitrary set of criteria. When a local "think tank", the Fraser Institute published rankings for high schools in British Columbia, it turned out that for the 18 high schools here in Vancouver there was an 80% correlation between parental education levels and the school's "score". So as I've mentioned in previous posts, I'd consider this list to be kind of like a "Hollywoods Hottest Actors" list... intersting, fun to discuss, and a compliment to those who are on it... but highly arbitrary and hardly significant. Jason 
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