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And yes - I know the nay-sayers will soon post and I'm sure we all understand the controversies of these type of ratings, but I wanted to share some good PR!
Real good for education. Where do they all go? Surely they don't stay in Ky.
If the education is so good how come so many people still say 'done did', 'done went', and that Kentucky has the only creation museum.
Maybe if those grads from U of L and UK would stay!
And yes - I know the nay-sayers will soon post and I'm sure we all understand the controversies of these type of ratings, but I wanted to share some good PR!
If I'm not mistaken, I believe UK's law program is one of the top 5 programs in the country. I know the med. research division is growing.... ranked in the top ten. As for why people don't stay, probably because a mass amount of students are migrating students from other states and a plethora from other countries. The new 10mil Appalachian Research Education Grant should help curve that somewhat though.
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Please don't call me a Kentucky naysayer but shouldn't they have taken consideration that KY nationally does not perform well in K-12 education? Maybe for post-secondary education Lou and Lex would be in the top 10 but not for public K-12.
I just went through the list and I would not put any kid into any of these systems. Charlotte MAYBE. In my view Virginia Beach, VA is way better than all these systems. The biggest WTF was Toledo.
As a retired teacher, these stats just prove what I have been saying for more than 40 years....nationally mormed tests mean nothing and to base your child's entrance into a school district where you believe that said tests indicates that particular school system performs well is absurd. Sounds to me like Lexington and Louisville teachers are actually "teaching the student." Way back in the stone age of my college days, one old education prof had this to say: "If you want to be an exceptional teacher, teach the student not the text or the tests." I lived by that rule all of my 24 years as a teacher in a public school system/district/state that is ranked lower than Kentucky in academics and overall performance. Kudos to both cities!
Toledo actually has a pretty good school system for a city of its demographics and size.
As someone who has lived in both Lexington and Toledo I can say without a doubt that Lexington's school system blows Toledo's public school system out of the water. Toledo does have very strong private schools since no one sends their kids to the public schools. I went to med school in Toledo and there was not a single person in my class that went to a Toledo public schools. Of the ~25 or so from metro Toledo in my class every one of them went to a suburban school district or one of the private schools.
Despite what people on here say, Lexington has one of the best public school systems in the country for a city its size.
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