The Thomas B. Fordham Institute….

has out an interesting report looking at education standards in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, and South Korea. This is a look into national set standards. Canada is the only county looked at with no national set standards.

The people behind the report that having national set standards does not mean local control is lost. They found some high performing countries are more decentralized than ours.

They want testing of kids in the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade level. That is what is done in the USA. Some of the countries on that list test at more grade levels.

They want coherent, focused, and rigorous standards for English, math, and science first. Then they want the same thing done for other subjects.

For each country they look at they give out good details on how each educational system works.