What's
New
A Look at the National
High School Quality Rankings
Published in
Bethesda
Magazine (Sept-Oct 2009
issue)
“Rethinking the
Rankings” is an examination of what lies behind the
rankings compiled and released annually by
Newsweek
and U.S. News and World
Report as well as
the impact of these rankings in Groeneman Research &
Consulting’s home school district of Montgomery County,
Maryland. The article describes and critiques the two
methodologies used by these two well-known periodicals to
rank high schools. It also draws on in-person interviews
conducted with high school principals of some of the
county’s top-ranked schools to report how much attention
the rankings generate and whether they influence decisions
of the county’s parents and school administrators. The
article was prepared and the interviews conducted by
GR&C president, Sid Groeneman. The article is available
online in the Story Archive section of the magazine’s
website: Bethesda Magazine.
Personnel Note: Michael
Groeneman
I.T. consultant to GR&C and Apple products specialist,
Michael Groeneman, a a Computer Science major and rising
senior at Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota), will be
engaged in a research internship at Carleton this summer
for a professor in the Computer Science Department. Michael
has been instrumental in choosing, setting up, and
maintaining much of the company’s computer/network
infrastructure and website. Although he’ll be gone again
from GR&C’s home base, Michael has the capability of
advising and trouble-shooting from afar.
