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Debunking myths about kids and technology, researchers Alice Marwick and danah boyd write that the core elements of high-school life are fundamentally the same today as they were two decades ago.

It’s lunchtime in a suburban high school in Nashville, Tennessee, and Andrew*, 17, has already sent more than 200 text messages. Assuming he woke up at seven, that’s roughly one text every 90 seconds.To those far removed from their teen years, such a rate of texting may seem inconceivable. Modern teenage life itself appears alien, or at least alienating. The devices and gadgets that now dominate young peoples’ lives remove them from their friends and family, the story goes, isolating teens in a virtual netherworld.

Newsweek and The Daily Beast compared the quality of education among the nation’s top secondary schools. Here’s how we did it.

To compile the 2012 list of the top high schools in America, Newsweek reached out to principals, superintendents and other administrators at public high schools across the country. In order to be considered for our list, a school had to complete a survey requesting specific data from the 2010-2011 academic year. In all, more than 2,300 schools were assessed to produce the final list of the top 1,000 schools.We ranked all respondents based on the following self-reported statistics from the 2010-2011 school year, listed along with their corresponding weight in our final calculation:Four-year, on-time graduation rate (25%): Based on the standards set forth by the National Governors Association, this rate is calculated by dividing the number of graduates in 2011 by the number of ninth graders in 2007, plus transfers in and minus transfers out.