Best U.S. High Schools Travel Different Roads to Academic Success - SOPnewswire
In ranking the 100 best public high schools in the United States, the magazine U.S. News and World Report found a common denominator in their unwavering commitment to excellence -- but widely divergent ways in which they achieved their outstanding results in the classroom. The top-ranked school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, an elite, highly selective school in suburban Virginia outside Washington, was hardly a surprising choice. In one physics class, for example, students are designing an Earth-orbiting satellite in cooperation with local high-tech firms, while other students choose course offerings from DNA science to artificial intelligence.