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Thursday, January 25, 2018

This is the least educated state in America, study finds

Mississippi has been ranked the least educated state in the U.S., according to a national study released Tuesday.

Personal finance website WalletHub released its annual list of the most and least educated states in America list after analyzing key factors in all 50 states, including educational attainment, school quality and achievement gaps between genders and races.

The most educated state is Massachusetts with a total score of 81.92%, after topping the list in both educational attainment and quality of education. Maryland, Connecticut, Vermont and Colorado followed filling out the top five most educated states list. Maryland, which came in second, had the highest school system rating in the country, which is 16.2 times higher than in Nebraska, the state with the lowest at 1.7%.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Some how or other they left out Baltimore City and Wicomico County schools.

Anonymous said...

They must have skipped the slower lower in their survey of MD.

Anonymous said...

Would you look at that, all blue states...

Anonymous said...

If you've spent any time in Mississippi, you know that this is true.

Anonymous said...

MD's ranking is nothing but an illusion. So many students have been labeled as having some type of fake disability and that enables them to take a modified test. Some of the disabilities include "test anxiety" so the teachers read the questions to the test takers.