It should be given powers to impose financial penalties if institutions fail to reach benchmarks on widening participation, he says.
Interestingly, while the prescribing of antihypertensive medications had not reached benchmark levels, we did not see a significant change after patients enrolled in either FHGs or FHNs.
Some Purdue professors are awarding badges for reaching benchmarks in regular credit-bearing courses, including one in health care communications and another in curriculum and instruction.
In third-grade reading, for example, 64percentt of Asian students reached benchmarks compared with 52percentt of white students, 23percentt of black students, and 22percentt of Hispanic students.
Experts harbor doubts about the reliability of Labor Department numbers, which are derived from reports by state agencies that collect data from community colleges and employment offices whose training funds are dependent upon reaching benchmarks.
If the government soon reaches benchmarks, like distributing its payroll even though its main records were destroyed, there will be no need for a more robust mandate, officials contend.
Benchmark spokeswoman Michelle Hurley also had no comment, except that she was trying to reach some Benchmark partners.
Still, not everyone is convinced that "Chasing Mavericks" will reach a benchmark.
Tens of thousands more students who failed to reach the benchmark for one of their university places will enter clearing to find a course with vacancies.
More than half of the students who took the SAT in 2013 did not reach a benchmark indicating they would be prepared to succeed in college-level courses.
In the closing days of the quarter, the Obama campaign blasted donors with repeated appeals seeking last-minute contributions, hoping to reach a benchmark of one million total donors.
