Top 100 U.S. High Schools

     U.S. News and World Report recently joined the ranks of other newspapers and journals by publishing a list of what they perceive to be the top 100 high schools in our country.  I have some questions:  Why are lists like these necessary?  What good results from these lists?  And are journalists the best source of information regarding the quality of public education?

     Sure, they enlisted the aid of a school evaluation service.  But admittedly, they used only three criteria to judge a relatively small number of our nation's 18.000 or so high schools.

     This issue of U.S. News may just have to line the bottom of the bird cage.