MA schools get best-in-nation grade; nation gets ‘C’

The ranking includes issues such as poverty levels in schools as part of its effort to look comprehensively at the factors having an impact on student achievement, and poverty profoundly affects the chances that the youngest students will be ready for school.

MA earned the top marks this year with a score of 86.8 and the only B-plus awarded.

Every year, the report grades each state on its overall education performance.

Oklahoma was ranked 46th, and that’s actually a slight improvement over a year ago.

The survey noted that few MS high schoolers score a passing grade of 3 or higher on Advanced Placement exams that would allow them to earn college credit.

Education Week’s Quality Counts 2016 report ranked Wyoming eighth in the nation and gave the state an overall score of 80.2 out of 100 and a grade of B-minus.

The national average grades were C-minus in K-12 student achievement, C in school finance and C-minus in students’ chance for success.

New Jersey ranked third in the nation on this index, which considers thirteen indicators of success from cradle to career, such as preschool enrollment rates, postsecondary participation and annual adult income. New Mexico’s Public Education Department maintains that figure is actually 69.3 percent, but even so, it does not change the state’s national ranking.

The best education in the nation continues to hail from the Bay State.

“Consistently a strong performer, the state improved on the B it earned in 2015”, the report states.

OR is making little progress or heading in the wrong direction when it comes to raising elementary and middle school reading and math achievement.

State education officials said Education Week altered its rubric past year and cut two broad categories from its equation: transitions and alignment, which focuses on state policies; and teaching profession, which focuses on teacher training, tenure, and other policies.