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.
Texas was tied with three other states as second highest last year.
There are really three sets of stats.
The "cluster" of the top end students. This is what I was referring to.
The middle average and how wide it is.
The bottom cluster and how big it is. Its pretty big in some states.
