How the best & worst educated states voted

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% over 25 with university degree	Eight Best Educated States
39.1%	Massachusetts
36.9%	Maryland
36.7%	Colorado
36.2%	Connecticut
35.4%	Vermont
35.3%	New Jersey
35.1%	Virginia
33.4%	New Hampshire
32.9%	New York
32.4%	Minnesota

[RichD]

you are so elitist ....

[Gen]

dem always seh majority of those well educated states typically vote Dem.

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% over 25 with university degree	Worst Educated States
18.5%	West Virginia
19.8%	Mississippi
20.3%	Arkansas
21.1%	Kentucky
21.1%	Louisiana
22.3%	Alabama
22.5%	Nevada	Obama-3-barack-obama-5879920-200-200.jpg
23.0%	Indiana
23.6%	Tennessee
23.8%	Oklahoma

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Source: http://www.happyplace.com/19076/elec...oted-for-obama

[Gen]

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LOL

Although I'm surprised that no states have closer to 50% of the over 25 population with degrees. I have to see how the US compares to other developed nations.

[Gen]

no need to, don't bother, they are "usually" not UP THERE on any sort of education list (when compared with the rest of the world)

nuh waste yuh time

[Tulip]

I was scared to come in here. I'm just surprised not to see Georgia on the list. If memory serves (before the cheating scandal) we had the lowest test scores in the nation. Different criteria though - that was high school students. Likely only because there are so many transplants here are we not topping West Virginia.

[Blackstar*]

You're right, Gen, but I can't help myself.

Countries with the highest college graduation rates

Among today’s American 25- to 34-year olds, slightly more than 40 percent have associate’s degrees or higher. But that rate places the US only 12th of the 36 countries in a College Board study of countries with the highest graduation rates. Here are the top six countries.

6. Ireland, 43.9 percent

5. New Zealand, 47.3 percent

4. Japan, 53.7 percent

3. Russia, 55.5 percent

2. South Korea, 55.5 percent

1. Canada, 55.8 percent


Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educati...d-43.9-percent

[remo]

Good old Canada

[Peasie]

Good old Canada

[queenb]

I've been teaching off and on since 1975. Every 5 years I have felt that my students couldn't pass the tests of their predecessors. They can text, msg, tweet, and fb,but they don't have a grasp of the information that they have been given in previous years.

[Tropicana]

Third World Mississippi shows failure of conservative policies

Mississippi is, by many metrics, an extremely conservative state. In fact, according to Gallup, it is the most conservative state in the union. The governor's and lieutenant governor's offices, as well as both chambers of the state legislature, are controlled by the GOP. Mississippi, according to a report in the Jackson Progressive, has a very regressive income tax, and has one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation.

The state ranks dead last economically, with the lowest per capita income in the country - $30,399 according to the Census Bureau figures for 2008. Compare that to the national per capita income of $40,208. Additionally, as of 2010, 21.9 percent of Mississippi residents lived below the poverty level, and 10.9 percent were unemployed - much worse than the national rates of about 14 percent and 9 percent respectively.

As the poorest region of the poorest state, the Mississippi Delta illustrates the huge income disparity in the world's richest nation. The Delta is a rural region composed of 17 agricultural counties in the alluvial flood plain of the Mississippi River. The region is historically considered to be one of the most economically and educationally deprived areas of the nation.

The Delta region is the flagship of poverty in the state. According to the U.S. Census, 20 percent of the region's population is on food stamps.

The economic problems of the region have been endemic for quite some time. Even back between 2006 and 2008, while the nation had a 6.8 percent unemployment rate, the Delta held at 12 percent unemployment.

Susan Mayfield-Johnson, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach at the University of Southern Mississippi, which researches community health in rural Mississippi. Dr. Mayfield-Johnson states that the lack of a viable non-agriculture-based economy in the region has resulted in "stagnant incomes and low-skilled jobs for decades."

The region also experiences significant barriers in education. Only 61.6 percent of adults in the region have a high school diploma, compared to 80.4 percent nationwide. Adults in Mississippi have the highest rate of low literacy in the nation, with 30 percent scoring as "Level 1" on the National Assessment of Adult Literacy conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in 2003. Level 1 literacy is generally defined as less than fifth-grade reading and comprehension skills.

Mississippi also leads the nation in a number of health care problems. It has the highest rate of heart disease and the second highest rate of diabetes in the country.

According to the Mississippi Department of Health, the prevalence of adult diabetes in the state increased by 70 percent between 1994 and 2006. The department also reports that one in three Mississippians suffer from hypertension.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among adults in Mississippi, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact, one out of every five adults in the state who die under the age of 65 dies from cardiovascular disease. Its prevalence in the state is 33.6 percent higher than in the U.S. as a whole. In the Delta region it is an astonishing 83.5 percent higher.

ABC News reported this month that the five U.S. counties with the lowest life expectancies for women are in the Mississippi Delta. All five counties have life expectancies for women of less than 74 years, which is lower than the nations of Honduras, Peru or El Salvador.

The study that ABC cited also revealed that the five counties with the lowest life expectancies for men are also in Mississippi, and four of them are in the Delta region. The life expectancies for men in these counties are all under 69 years, lower than countries like Brazil or Latvia.

The lack of health care access in the Mississippi Delta is even more staggering and may be a major factor in the health disparities seen in the state. In fact, the Mississippi Department of Health has designated the region as a health professional shortage area.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/third-wo...tive-policies/

[missus_vegas]

I've been teaching off and on since 1975. Every 5 years I have felt that my students couldn't pass the tests of their predecessors. They can text, msg, tweet, and fb,but they don't have a grasp of the information that they have been given in previous years.

there is a theory.....y pack ur brain with all this stuff wen at the click of a button u can find it on the internet?