ShareThisMaryland’s Education System Ranks Among Nation’s Best!
I received the following information from Nancy S. Grasmick the State Superintendent of Schools for the Maryland State Department of Education. Ms. Grasmick stated the following. “Education Week, the nation’s leading education newspaper, recently published its 2008 “Quality Counts” report- the Consumer Reports of education. For the first time in the 12-year history of this report, Education Week has rated the overall quality of education in the states, and I am proud to announce that Maryland is leading the pack.”
Ms. Grasmick also stated that the 2008 Quality Counts report ranked Maryland’s education 3rd in the nation and that Maryland had only one performance indicator falling outside the “B” range. Maryland received a B+; the national average was a C. Also Maryland received high marks for K-12 achievement, ranking second in the nation with a strong showing on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, high school graduation rates, and Advanced Placement (AP) performance, which the report ranked as the nation’s best. Good job Marylanders’.
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