December 8, 2000

Grading the States

The following are the five categories in which the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education awarded letter grades to the states, and explanations of how the center arrived at its grades.

Preparation: Measured by the percentage of 18-to-24-year-olds with a high-school credential; percentage of high-school students who have taken upper-level math and science courses; percentage of eighth-grade students who have taken algebra and scored at or above "proficient" on national

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