[Fwd: Re: Newsweek top 100 schools]

["Barbara L. Gardner" <bgardner@USWEST.NET>]

LM_NETers:  I guess I am just naturally suspicious, especially of
"standardized tests."  Without doing an exact statistical analysis, it
appears to me that most of these schools come from the East Coast, in
particular N.Y., some from the Midwest, and some from California.  It
makes me wonder if there is a regional or other bias to the test.  I
have seen some test questions that could have various answers depending
upon the part of the country in which one lives; but, of course, there
is "only one right answer."  Any thoughts, group?

Barbara Gardner, Librarian
Tolleson Elementary
Tolleson, AZ
bgardner@uswest.net

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The index measures each school's effort to expose its students to
challenging courses by dividing the number of AP tests it gave in 1996
by the number of graduating seniors in May or June of that year. The
list includes all U.S. schools with more than 200 graduates that
achieved an index of 1.000 or more, and as many smaller schools as could
be found that met that standard. Only public schools that selected no
more than half of their students through examinations or other academic
criteria are included. From Mathews' new book "Class Struggle" (Times
Books).

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