Mark quotes:

> 2003 Smartest State Rankings

> Rank State
>  1  Massachusetts
>  2  Vermont
>  3  Connecticut
>  4  Montana
>  5  New Jersey
>  6  Maine
>  7  Pennsylvania
>  8  Wisconsin
>  8  Iowa
>  10 New York
>  11 Nebraska
>  12 Minnesota
>  13 Indiana
>  14 Wyoming
>  15 Kansas
>  16 Rhode Island
>  17 Virginia
>  18 Maryland
>  19 Delaware
>  20 Michigan
>  21 North Carolina
>  22 Ohio
>  23 Alaska
>  24 North Dakota
>  25 Utah
>  26 New Hampshire
>  27 Illinois
>  28 Missouri
>  29 West Virginia
>  30 Idaho
>  31 South Dakota
>  32 Oregon
>  33 Washington
>  34 Texas
>  35 Colorado
>  36 Georgia
>  37 Kentucky
>  38 Arkansas
>  39 Oklahoma
>  40 Florida
>  41 South Carolina
>  42 Tennessee
>  43 Hawaii
>  44 California
>  45 Arizona
>  46 Alabama
>  47 Louisiana
>  48 Mississippi
>  49 Nevada
>  50 New Mexico

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:

     http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/silicon.html?pg=2

which may be a more fair measure.

Wirt Atmar

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