Forty-eight U.S. states were ranked, educationally, last week. The ranking, published by School and Society, educational weekly, was based not on literacy but on the percentages of high-school and college graduates over 25 in each state's population, as shown in the 1940 census.
¶ The first ten: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, Idaho, Montana.
¶ The South contains eight of the last ten (tail-ender: Arkansas; Virginia is 14th from the bottom).
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