http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222279,00.html
The fine folks at Morgan Quitno Press are out to prove what many of us have suspected for a long, long time: some of this country's great states are just a few sandwiches short of an intellectual picnic basket.
According to the private research and publishing company's new survey, when they were handing out smarts, Arizona (dead last for the second year in a row, no less) was hanging out with California, Mississippi and Nevada at the back of the line, Central Florida's Local 6 reports.
Beg to differ?
The folks in Vermont probably don't. The Green Mountain State was ranked the smartest of them all, followed by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maine.
The survey has Texas as the Lone Star of mediocrity at No. 25, New York making an appearance at No. 16 and Florida chilling with the other underachievers at No. 29.
The annual rankings are based on 21 elementary and secondary education indicators, ranging from test scores and graduation rates to class size and teacher's salaries.
http://www.local6.com/education/10097048/detail.html
1 Vermont
2 Massachusetts
3 Connecticut
4 New Jersey
5 Maine
6 Virginia
7 Montana
8 Wisconsin
9 Iowa
10 Pennsylvania
11 Nebraska
12 New Hampshire
13 Minnesota
14 Rhode Island
15 Kansas
16 New York
17 South Dakota
18 Maryland
19 Wyoming
20 Idaho
21 North Dakota
22 Missouri
23 North Carolina
24 Indiana
25 Texas
26 South Carolina
27 Colorado
28 Delaware
29 Florida
30 Tennessee
31 Kentucky
32 Arkansas
33 Washington
34 Ohio
35 Illinois
36 Oklahoma
37 West Virginia
38 Utah
39 Michigan
40 Oregon
41 Georgia
42 Hawaii
43 New Mexico
44 Louisiana
45 Alabama
46 Alaska
47 California
48 Mississippi
49 Nevada
50 Arizona