Newsweek 2006 Best high schools

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<p>NYT: Odd Math for ‘Best High Schools’ List</p>

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A rating system that rewards quantity without measuring quality produces some truly bizarre results.</p>

<p>For example, Forshay Learning Center, a high-poverty school in Los Angeles, is ranked No. 414 on Newsweek’s list with a ratio of 1.888 AP tests per graduating senior; Lexington High in well-to-do suburban Boston is ranked No. 441, with a ratio of 1.831. For Newsweek, it does not matter that Forshay students failed 83 percent of their AP tests with scores of 1’s and 2’s; while at Lexington, 91 percent were 3’s, 4’s or the top grade of 5–qualifying those students for college credits."
“Shouldn’t results on the test count for something?” asked Michael Jones, Lexington High’s principal.

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