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On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> Those rankings have to be taken in context -- and "smartness" of the
> students
> has very little to do with them. The publishers' primary considerations
> concern themselves with the dollar value spent per student. In that
> form of metric,
> the northeastern states will always come out on top, simply in part
> because
> those states also have the very highest per capita incomes and
> spending per
> student tends to be based on the available tax base.
>
> On the other hand, you can read material such as this:
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> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/silicon.html?pg=2
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> which may be a more fair measure.
>
> Wirt Atmar
If the people in Massachusetts were really smart, they'd move to New
Mexico.
FW
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln
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