The Fordham Institute…..

has a new report out where they used four experts to grade national and international education standards.

The ones that they looked at are the Common Core standards that have come out this year in draft form, NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA.

TIMMS for math got the best grade of an A. They say that the standards are clear and well organized with little jargon. They cover nearly all requirements.

Common Core got a B grade. For math they would like to see explicitly what standards need to be stressed more. For the reading/writing stuff they say that the skills-based competencies in the standard cannot serve as a strong framework for a curriculum.

NAEP got a B grade for English and writing, but a C grade when it came to math. For math they say the standard has too many things they must know and over half of them could use a rewrite. For English and writing they would like to see more detail on standards.

PISA got the worst grade of the bunch with a D grade. For math it was bad due to not teaching stuff at appropriate grade levels. For reading they say the standard skips over stuff and the framework is murky.

Each one gets a detailed looked.