“U.S. News And World Report” ranking of American universities, research institutes, etc. ranking, has become in the United States to seek higher education an essential manual for students and parents. Now, if you are on the journal’s Web site, you will find outside of these rankings has added a new item: U.S. public high school rankings.
The high school rankings released, the increased competition that the United States education to basic education level. Originally, high school is compulsory, to emphasize that equality for everyone, not competition. Moreover, usually the nearest public high school enrollment. You live in Boston, Washington, a high school that is good, but no matter how want to go, can not do this move. Therefore, the high school students and parents in terms of rankings is nothing but castles in the air, no practical significance. University is excellence in education above compulsory education, emphasis is competition. In addition, the University may not be locally, you can choose the country and even around the world. Therefore, the United States made the list despite the higher education sector has always been people Mengpi, but the incense is still very busy, not only the “U.S. News And World Report”, and other media have given rise to a variety of rankings. Ranking of business schools in particular, is several financial media compete for the “sale.”
However, as the university places, and growing competition, attention gradually shifted to high school. First, the trend of polarization in the U.S. compulsory education very important, on what high school their children into what kind of college has an important impact. Second, a growing number of parents of local schools where the quality of the decision to buy a house, moved at for short. Especially the best educated white-collar work of frequent transfers, many choices. They decide whether to accept a job, often the quality of education as the balance of local factors, in this regard need a national “strategic map.” Third, even though children at the local high school, but you are aware the University is a nationwide competition trail, so their high status in the country is more and more curious. Of course, in addition to these factors, the high school ranking high on China’s emerging middle there special significance. Today, the declining age of the Chinese students in China, mainly from the last transition to the reading of the graduate college education. And some parents send their children to the United States have qualified high school. Also visit the United States as visiting scholars and other long-term staff, but also fashionable a family and I go abroad, give children the experience of receiving compulsory education in the United States. Even some of China’s elite high schools, and the establishment of American high school exchange program, sending students in America. For all these reasons, Chinese readers have stimulated interest on the U.S. high school.
In fact, in recent years, the U.S. media have begun to conduct appraisals of high school. Such as “Newsweek” on the publication of its own public high school rankings, small impact, however, this ranking does not pay attention to high school final results of the academic quality of its graduates, enrollment rate, but stressed the opportunities offered by the school for students . Many excellent students because of their family background, not school credit. You judge a restaurant, not by patrons purse money, but by the quality of the food. Result, the journal of each high school provide students with advanced courses Examination (AP), the number of rank. Some students did not stand out, but the students in the large margin of increase during the performance of schools, therefore top the popular list. Some sources of good students, “the final product” or (like the Ivy League’s more) of the school, you can not top the popular list.Result, the standings in the southern, central and western schools of education are more backward. Education is the most developed in Massachusetts, Boston Latin is only one school in the top 100. If you are a “Mencius’s mother moved the three” spirit of the parents, has decided that the best children’s schools that, with the “Newsweek” that rank, or difficult to make a decision.
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