NJ has had the highest standardized test scores in the nation on SAT/PSAT for several years.
Now, that's interesting to me. Princeton, NJ being the HQ of ETS, you could call it ground zero for the notion that mass standardized test results are meaningful. As you get farther and farther from that center, as American cultures and values become more and more different from those of NJ, I would expect the test scores to also come down a bit. It geography, we would talk about that in terms of core and periphery. Hmmm.
