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States which do well educationally, blame Canada!

User Image razib | August 31, 2009
Mike the Mad Biologist points out that Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota and New Hampshire do better on math scores for elementary age students than most of Europe, and are competitive with Asia. Here are Mike's factors for why this might be: -Low child poverty rates as measured by school lunch subsidies (a common proxy for poverty). -Low divorce rates. -Effective public health departments. MA, NJ, and MN have very good public health systems, and NH has some excellent programs (e.g., electronic syndromic surveillance) -High incomes. Overall, these are healthy state economies (as good as…