State Education Rankings Equate Nicely to Interactive Poverty Map
November 18, 2007
First, click on the:
Then, make a note of where the state ranks on poverty. (1st means more poverty, 50th means less poverty)
Then, click on the state education rankings below:
http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm
Thoughts?
April 12, 2008 at 10:08 pm
The thing is, that poverty map seems flawed. DC has the second-lowest poverty rate? It appears it uses some faulty method of determining poverty, most likely just by looking at the percentage of households below some national poverty level. That would be a flawed methodology because it costs far, far more to live in DC than in, say, rural Utah. A person making $40,000 in DC is raising children in poverty, while a person making $40,000 in rural Utah is easily making payments on a decent single-family home.
If this poverty map took into account the difference in costs of living by sub-region, I think the inverse correlation between poverty rates and education rankings would be even stronger, further bolstering what appears to be your statement here. DC would be very high in poverty, and very low in education. Nevada, Arizona, and Mississippi, which have very low costs of living for the most part, would be much higher in terms of poverty, correlating very strongly and inversely to the education rankings.
October 27, 2008 at 2:21 am
hi, Do something to help those hungry people from Africa or India,
I made this blog about them:
on http://tinyurl.com/5t2jg6