A comparison of Washington standards and college readiness standards by College Board
A status of American Education and some possible ways to improve it
Presentation made to League of Education Voters (Washington) by Kati Haycock
How our best education state (MA) compares to the best in the world (Hong Kong) - Comparison of 3rd graders
Presentation made to Vancouver SD about the state of math education in VSD
The most definitive report from National Math Advisory Panel (NMAP) that pinpoints the problems associated with the US math education.
Washington State Math Standards: K-12
Singapore Math Standards (Syllabus): 1-6
Singapore Math Standards (Syllabus): 7-10 - Note how all students are required to take Calculus by 10th grade beofre they move on to different tracks in 11th and 12th.
PISA test result
TIMMS test result
Ten Myths About Math Education And Why You Shouldn't Believe Them
A quarter century of US 'math wars' and political partisanship
Cognitive child abuse in our math classrooms

What should your school district be like? Here is an excellent example. Central Bedford School Distric, NY, is a small district of 4000 students, and has 25% black/hispanic population with 19% free and reduced meal recepients. Yet they send 85% of their students to 4 year colleges, 9% to 2 year colleges (94% total!). Have you seen your own district's data lately? Or do they even have the data available to you?

Check out page 33 of the document.

The quality of teachers is the single biggest determining factor for the quality of education. Ever wondered why our teachers are so ill prepared to teach math? This is an authoritative report on how Colleges of Education ruin elementary math education in this country.

Once again, National Council on Teacher Quality connects the quality of teachers with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) crisis, and suggests how we should improve the education colleges.

"most of the nation’s future teachers come from the bottom third of high school graduates going to college"