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Ranking schools is as much about selling magazines as it is a true statistical exercise. Many factors go into rankings that are highly subjective and even hard academic data can be massaged and to show superior results. Yet, that hasn't stopped news organizations from ranking schools, nor parents and administrators from eagerly anticipating the results every year. Now, even high schools have gotten in on the ranking exuberance. US News, Newsweek and Forbes are three of the many organizations that set out to rank the top high school programs in the nation. Pay attention to both the rankings and the methodology they used to choose the top ranking highschools.
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America's Best High Schools: Gold Medal List - Is your child getting a top notch education at a top highschool? This is a list of the 100 High School's in the United States rated on a 3 prong scale. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA topped this list.
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America's Best High Schools: The List - Talented and Gifted in Dallas Texas tops Newsweek's ranking. Barely 6% of all High Schools in the United States made Newsweek's annual list of best High School's. See how the schools were rated and if your school made the list!
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Top 20 Prep Schools - Trinity School and Horace Mann, both prestigious academic institutions in New York, top Forbes' ranking of the best preparatory schools. Note that ranking private schools is far from an exact science since private schools have no obligation to provide data to outsiders.
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Top High Schools - Compare and contrast schools near you based on published data.
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Comparison of Private and Public Schools - Choosing to send your child to a public or private school is a big decision. Discover the similarities and differences between the two types of schools.
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Public School vs. Private School - Offers insight and academic statistics that will help you make an educated decision on where to send your child for an education.
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Many private schools score higher but have less diversity - Are private schools really a better option for parents? Not necessarily, according to this somewhat controversial article discussing the negative impacts of private schooling.
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Best High Schools: The Reaction - Not everyone took Newsweek's annual ranking of High Schools sitting down. The article got much criticism from both schools and fellow writers alike. Click here for the full story.
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''The Wilen Index"--a new high school ranking, sort of - Some High School rating systems are receiving a backlash due to the rating system only being based on test scores. This article responds to that criticism, and sites a "new" ranking system that should be tested.