Does Your State Make the Grade? CQ Press Releases Education State Rankings 2009–2010

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. (October 21, 2009) ― CQ Press has just released the 2009–2010 edition of its popular Education State Rankings. This year, New Jersey received the highest overall education ranking, followed by last year’s top-ranking states, Massachusetts and Vermont.

Education State Rankings 2009–2010 compares the fifty states and the District of Columbia in hundreds of pre K–12 education categories, including reading and math scores, teachers’ salaries, graduation rates, per-pupil spending, special education, and class size. In addition, the rankings tables address questions regarding education inside and outside of the classroom, such as: How many hours of television do teenagers watch in each state? What percentage of fourth-grade students uses a computer at home?

This handy reference serves as a solid resource for researchers, legislators, policy analysts, journalists, and community members. Users can monitor important trends and compare the status of a state’s education to that of other states and the nation as a whole. The methodology for determining the state education rankings involves a multistep process in which rates for twenty major factors are processed through a formula that measures how each state compares to the national average for a given category. The further above the national average a state’s education ranking is, the higher the state ranks overall.

Education State Rankings is one of CQ Press’s five annual reference books that analyze and rank states and cities in various categories. Other books in the series rank states using data on quality of life, health care, and crime.

Kathleen O’Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan have compiled books of state and city rankings for almost two decades. Kathleen O’Leary Morgan holds a master’s degree in public administration and has served in a number of media and legislative liaison positions with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she also served as deputy director of congressional affairs. Scott Morgan is an attorney who served as chief counsel to Sen. Bob Dole’s 1988 presidential campaign.

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