Topic: Maryland has the BEST Schools in the Country!!!!!

[Bo D]

Last year, we were number three and there was quite a discussion about it here....

http://4seasonschat.com/index.php/topic,10262.0.html
 

Well...this year we are NUMBER ONE!

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=598&sid=1566365

Md. public schools ranked nation's best

Maryland gets the best grades in Education Week's annual "Quality Counts" report, which was released Wednesday. Last year, Maryland ranked third, but this is the first time the state has reached the top of the rankings. Massachusetts was rated slightly behind Maryland this year.

The ranking is based on student performance, graduation rates and statewide accountability and standards, among other factors. Maryland students were singled out in part for their high scores on Advanced Placement exams.



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[notatroll]

Tell them to share the "secret" with WV-VA

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[Bo D]

Tell them to share the "secret" with WV-VA

You get what you pay for!

And I don't mean just teacher salaries. More parents need to invest more time.

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[notatroll]

Tell them to share the "secret" with WV-VA

You get what you pay for!

And I don't mean just teacher salaries. More parents need to invest more time.

You are so right there!!!  You would never believe the number of kids in one little school who say their parents don't "Have time" to help them. 

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[Bo D]

The silence from the right is deafening!

 

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[Tony Light]

The silence from the right is deafening!

 

We have already said it. We pointed out the problems and were poopooed. Now you have came around. Thank you for your interest.

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[Bo D]

The silence from the right is deafening!

 

We have already said it. We pointed out the problems and were poopooed. Now you have came around. Thank you for your interest.

I thought you were "middle of the road"

 

And what's with the "we" stuff?

The only thing you ever did was to bash the Democratic administration of Maryland by trying to call Nancy Grasmick a republican  and then tried to weasel out of that by bashing Baltimore schools.

 

Come back when you have something to say.

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[Bo D]

You get what you pay for.....

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/07/220208mdeducationfunding_ap.html

Report: Huge Md. Investment in Schools Has Helped
By The Associated Press

More than $3 billion in state and local investment in Maryland schools over the last six years has brought significant progress in reducing student achievement gaps, according to a study of the state's Bridge to Excellence program released Wednesday.

The three-year study, conducted by national consulting firm MGT of America, was released at the same time Quality Counts 2009 rated Maryland's public schools as the nation's best.

"Maryland is the envy of every state," said Jerry Ciesla, a senior partner who took the lead on the study.

Overall increases to public school spending from kindergarten through high school totaled about $3.4 billion over the last six years in Maryland, with $2 billion of that from increased state spending, Ciesla said. Another $1.3 billion came from increases in local funding.

"The feds kind of let down people," Ciesla said. "Their increase over this last six years was only one-tenth of a billion dollars, so if the schools didn't have this increase from the state — from the locals — their funding would have been pitiful."

The money made a demonstrable difference in student performance, Ciesla said.

"We can directly tie funding to improvements in student achievement," he said.



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[Tony Light]

I am glad you live in a rich state that can afford that kind of money and effort. Here in West Virginia the only ones making a decent living are teachers and government workers. The taxpayers are in lower wage jobs. We are a poor state. Hopefully your students will do well, go to college and end up making good money. The folks in West Virginia and several other states will need Marylands tax money.

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[Bo D]

I am glad you live in a rich state that can afford that kind of money and effort. Here in West Virginia the only ones making a decent living are teachers and government workers. The taxpayers are in lower wage jobs. We are a poor state. Hopefully your students will do well, go to college and end up making good money. The folks in West Virginia and several other states will need Marylands tax money.

Why are we doing so much better, Tony? Is it because we are a liberal state? Well, we did have a republican governor for 4 years, but that didn't work out very well. We learned our lesson, though and we are back on top.

 

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[Bo D]

I just looked at a map showing the rankings of all states. Why is it that the Blue states are at the top of the rankings and the red ones are at the bottom?

 

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[Graybeard]

I just looked at a map showing the rankings of all states. Why is it that the Blue states are at the top of the rankings and the red ones are at the bottom?

 

You've lost me with this rhetoric. Are you saying WV is a red state? I realize where that comes from, voting for GOP presidential candidates, but this is a democratic a state as there is. So.... are our schools low in the rankings because we tend to vote for republicans for president? Or does it have anything to do with the democrats who've ran the state for nearly a hundred years? 

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[libby]

Argue all you please - facts speak louder than words. People who care about children and the future of this country know what it takes to provide quality education.

libby


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[Graybeard]

Argue all you please - facts speak louder than words. People who care about children and the future of this country know what it takes to provide quality education.

libby

I'm not arguing anything, just pointing out the hypocrisy of saying a red or blue political state provides a better education. Just what is WV really? How can we be labeled red when our senators and congressmen tend to vote lockstep with the party line? Which everyone knows sure ain't blue. 

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[Tattoo Vampire]

Come back when you have something to say.

Don't tell him that, we'll never hear from him again. 

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