Education Week released its Quality Counts annual report mid-January putting Texas on top.

The report confirms that Texas does a superior job in crafting its own curriculum standards, which were created with input from thousands of Texans.

You might recall that Texas, along with Alaska, has refused to join an effort this year to create national standards.

Education Week today released its annual Quality Counts report, which this year focuses on the national standards debate and examines the quality of work states have done independently preparing their own standards.

Texas earned a grade of 'A' on standards, assessment and accountability, and ranked sixth in the country. The state earned a grade of 100 for both its standards and school accountability systems, and received a score of 86.7 for its student tests.

The report noted that 11 states said they had used the Texas standards when crafting their own standards.

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Full Quality Counts information is available at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2010/01/14/index.html .