Wisconsin State Science Standards Suck

The Fordham Institute has released its annual State of State Science Standards 2012" and Wisconsin gets a big, fat F.

The report (PDF) begins:

Wisconsin’s science standards—unchanged since 1998, in spite of much earlier criticism, ours included—are simply worthless. No real content exists to evaluate. In lieu of content, the “authors” have passed the buck by merely citing unelaborated references to the now outdated National Science Education Standards (NSES). Rather than using the NSES as building blocks for a comprehensive set of science standards, however, Wisconsin has used them as an escape hatch to avoid hard work and careful thought.