Four education goals of Washington State Board of Education outlined in by the State Legislature in the 1990s:

1. mastery of reading, writing, and communication
2. knowing and applying the core concepts of math, the social, physical, and life sciences, civics and history, geography, the arts, and health and fitness
3. thinking analytically and creatively and integrating experience and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and to solve problems
4. understanding the importance of work

from "A Passion for Projects", edutopia online, http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1063, published 11/5/2003, accessed 5/1/2007.