Quality Counts

"Quality Counts is Education Week's annual report on state-level efforts to improve public education." The 2012 edition has just been released.

Arizona places 44th of 51 (DC is included) with a rating of C-. When high-perfoming schools like Uinversity High Tucson and districts like Paradise Valley and Scottsdale are excluded, Arizona's score and rating must be lower.

The significance? The future is not local. Our children will compete against Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, the top four finishers in the 2012 "Quality Counts". Our children will compete against Berlin, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro. Our children will compete against the best and the brightest on a global playing field. Local interests and local standards are irrelevant.

For this reason, IST's motto is "Open the World to Your Child". Our standards are drawn from those of France and Germany, and in our imminent curriculum review from the OECD benchmarks. Our external assessments are international such as the Royal Schools of Music for music, or the International Schools Assessment for Use of English and Mathematics.

So if you temporarily relocate to Tucson, or if you move to one of the top US states above or to another country, or if your child intends to apply to a selective university, by choosing IST you can be sure that s/he will compete with his/her peers.