I have been thinking a lot lately about how to establish a high caliber of standards that would make something like World School desirable for people interested in alternative educational options for their children. For the first leg in this journey I kept it close to home, looking at how each state in the USA stacks up to each other, and how those rankings are established. My hope is to then venture outside of our borders to consider the reading, science, and math programs of countries like Great Britain, Japan, and India for example. It seems like an appropriate avenue for World School.