READING -- Click on Washington State. "The 2004 standards are also much less rigorous than in the previous document. Some grade-level expectations are clear and specific and can be used for assessments, but a large number are processes, strategies, or pretentious statements with no clear academic objective-reductionist in goal and often incomprehensible."

MATHEMATICS -- Scroll down to "Washington" on page 113 of the report. The computer may show this as page 78 of 85 in the PDF. "A good first step toward improving Washington ’s failed standards would be to eliminate all but the first of the five strands identified in the grade-level expectations. The other four express laudable but inherently vague goals, and the specific standards listed under them are often of such low quality that they are likely to create more confusion and frustration than enlightenment."