Hawaii’s educational standards are high (‘A’), but students are failing to meet them (‘F’), according to an Education Week grading/ranking of state school systems.

Nothing we didn’t already know, but it’s always interesting to see what the national perspective is on local issues, and what they’re using to measure our success.

EdWeek gives Hawaii a ‘C+’ for its overall system — putting it in 16th place compared to the other 49 other states and D.C.

Hawaii is also 12 ranks higher than the grade for the nation as a whole.

Other areas where Hawaii excels, according to the “Quality Counts” report:

• Early childhood education (‘A-‘)
• Incentives and allocations (‘A-‘)
• The difficulty/relevance of its state assessments (‘B+’)
• Economy and workforce (‘B+’)
• Spending (‘B’)
• Equity (‘B’)
• School accountability (‘B-‘)

Where are we shortchanging the kids?

• College readiness (‘D-‘)
• Accountability for quality in teachers (‘D+’)
• Building and supporting capacity in the teaching profession (‘C-‘)
• Length of school years (‘C-‘)