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U.S. News & World Report has released its 2024 Best High Schools rankings, which evaluate nearly 18,000 eligible public high schools at the national, state, and local levels. The top 10 schools include Riverside Stem Academy in California, International Academy in Michigan, Julia R. Masterman Secondary School in Pennsylvania, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology in Georgia, and BASIS Peoria in Arizona, which took the number one spot. The rankings also cover charter and magnet schools, as well as the top science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) schools. According to LaMont Jones, managing editor of education at U.S. News, the rankings provide valuable data for parents to understand a school's academic performance. The rankings consider factors such as student performance on state assessments, college readiness, and graduation rates. U.S. News worked with RTI International to implement the ranking methodology. Along with the national rankings, U.S. News also publishes state-by-state rankings and a demographic breakdown of all ranked schools.
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California
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2024 Best High Schools rankings, which evaluate nearly 18,000 eligible public high schools at the national, state, and local levels. The top 10 schools include Riverside Stem Academy in California, International Academy in Michigan, Julia R. Masterman Secondary School in Pennsylvania, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology in Georgia, and BASIS Peoria in Arizona, which took the number one spot. The rankings also cover charter and magnet schools, as well as the top science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) schools. According to LaMont Jones, managing editor of education at U.S. News, the rankings provide valuable data for parents to understand a school's academic performance. The rankings consider factors such as student performance on state assessments, college readiness, and graduation rates. U.S. News worked with RTI International to implement the ranking methodology. Along with the national rankings, U.S. News also publishes state-by-state rankings and a demographic breakdown of all ranked schools.
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Texas
Students in Texas will now be graded by an AI scoring engine for open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has introduced this automated grading system to save money and reduce the time it takes to score exams. However, some superintendents have expressed concerns about the AI's ability to accurately interpret and score students' writing samples. The TEA's auto scoring engine uses natural language processing and has been programmed to assign scores that are consistent with human grading. The computer will grade all constructed responses, with a quarter of the responses being rescored by humans. If the computer has low confidence in a score or encounters a response it does not recognize, it will be reassigned to a human. While some districts have reservations about the new system, automated scoring technology has been used for over a decade and is widely employed in other states. The main concern is ensuring that students' work is scored fairly and accurately.
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Florida
West Shore and Edgewood high schools in Florida have been ranked among the top 10 in the state and top 100 nationwide, according to a report from U.S. News and World Report. The rankings are based on factors such as college readiness, curriculum breadth, state assessment proficiency, and graduation rate. Florida had the fifth highest number of high schools in the top 25% of the rankings. West Shore Jr./Sr. High and Edgewood Jr./Sr. High were also ranked in the top 100 high schools in the nation. Other Brevard high schools that made the state and national rankings include Satellite High School, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School, Viera High School, Melbourne High School, and Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School. The rankings provide valuable information for parents and students looking for the best high schools in Florida.
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