<p>NYT: Odd Math for 'Best High Schools' List</p>
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A rating system that rewards quantity without measuring quality produces some truly bizarre results.</p>
<p>For example, Forshay Learning Center, a high-poverty school in Los Angeles, is ranked No. 414 on Newsweek's list with a ratio of 1.888 AP tests per graduating senior; Lexington High in well-to-do suburban Boston is ranked No. 441, with a ratio of 1.831. For Newsweek, it does not matter that Forshay students failed 83 percent of their AP tests with scores of 1's and 2's; while at Lexington, 91 percent were 3's, 4's or the top grade of 5--qualifying those students for college credits."
"Shouldn't results on the test count for something?" asked Michael Jones, Lexington High's principal.
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