Interesting
Posted by Joshua Claybourn on 22 May 2008 | 12 responses
12 Responses to “Interesting”
Interesting information. A lot of dark red in Kentucky and Texas, for example.
Russ
It looks like a map of where Clinton supporters live!
I do wish the last category wasn’t so broad. While the other categories encompass no more than 9 percentage points, the last one covers almost 27 percentage points. It draws no distinction between those states where slightly less than 1/3 of the population has less than 9 years of education and those states where over 1/2 have less than that.
It looks like the darkest red in Kentucky and Tennessee is in Appalachia. The red in Texas seems to darken as it approaches the southern border.
no child left behind was a huge failure but was intended to make money not educate.
ok folks here it is capitalism is about profits not education in fact capitalism will try hard to privitize education to make profits.
bye bye middle class
For the purposes of this chart, does schooling count as education?
Wonder what Texas would look loke with out the “undocumented” workers.
Seems like there are four factors that I can spot:
1. Being immigrant
2. Being Appalachian
3. Being Southern
4. Being Upper Midwestern
It’s obvious why immigrants would not be educated – they were the poorest in a society with relatively lower education standards. Appalachia makes sense due to its sheer poverty, though I would guess that in Appalachia and the South, those with less than 9 years are an aging group. Many Southerners can relate to having grandparents who quit school in high school to work on the land, and historic literacy maps (as can be found in the Nat’l Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States) show a much sharper difference between South and North. Look for the difference to be much less in twenty years.
It’s the Upper Midwest that I don’t understand. Do wheat farming Swedes not like learning?
Rural areas may have a preponderance of older folks who may have dropped out at a young age; younger, better-educated rural youth head for the cities.
Also, if I recall correctly, there are a lot of Mennonite-type communities in that area that prize simplicity and might see a junior-high level education enough to help run the family farm.
I just moved to Lexington, KY a year ago, and the big red blotch in eastern KY is startling. It’s a different universe.
“Rural areas may have a preponderance of older folks who may have dropped out at a young age; younger, better-educated rural youth head for the cities.”
True, but western Oregon is pretty rural and they seem to be doing okay. Same with northern Indiana.
Perhaps it’s being so far from any major city. Or perhaps, like you said, it’s the Mennonite factor.
The “upper midwestern” counties you see in deep red are in many cases dominated by Indian reservations with notoriously poor public services, including schools.
I would modify:
1. Appalachian
2. Immigrant
3. Deep “Old” South (compare the Mississippi Valley to the RDU Triangle area or SW Georgia to the Gulf Coast)
4. Native American
Reticulator asked the best question, in my view.If you took a NEAP (or NAEP)look at Indiana plotting predicted achievement against actual achievement (even on ISTEP)the State would be very red faced and darkest red on the charts. For those who work with numbers, try two, three, and four standard deviations below predicted performance. Maybe the next Super of Education in Indiana will tell the truth.