America's Best Schools

Two of the best elementary schools are in Los Angeles, California and Latimer, Iowa. Time Magazine's list of "Schools of the Year are not the nation's best as measured by test scores. They are instead the schools [Time] judged to have found the most promising approaches to the most pressing challenges in education: using wisely the freedom now granted to charter schools; educating the children of the poor; consolidating schools in rural areas; making effective use of technology in teaching; and getting parents and communities involved in the education of their kids."