The phrase "a model for progress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that serves as an example or standard for achieving advancement or improvement in a particular area.
Example: "The new policy has become a model for progress in environmental sustainability, inspiring other organizations to adopt similar practices."
Alternatives: "a benchmark for advancement" or "a standard for improvement".
But we had to begin with an issue around which we could create, build and test a model for collaboration and progress.
Available on Amazon.com, Riptide deconstructs the changing landscape of higher education in the face of the for-profit debacle, graduation gridlock and staggering student debt, and asserts a new, sustainable model for progress.
China will offer itself, he asserts, as both a developed and developing nation, as a sort of role model for progress, while also posing an alternative to the United States, which thanks to the unilateralist policies of George W. Bush lost considerable prestige and influence abroad.
The film opens with a live-action prologue in which McCay busies himself studying a picture of the Lusitania as a model for his film-in-progress.
But this episode in the movement for equal rights in this country, while not complete because of a lack of a military non-discrimination policy for one, and, secondly, the persistent absence of a policy of open service for trans members of the military, is now sufficiently complete that it serves as a model for other campaigns currently in progress and those yet to come.
What I saw in Raleigh is the culmination of state-wide organizing around a "fusion agenda' for progress that is a model for the nation -- and especially for states in the South.
One role model for progress described by Miller might be the Japanese government, which has established several environmentally controlled medical units (EMUs) in hospitals for the research, diagnosis, and treatment of chemical intolerance.
However, the report, Poverty and Children: Lessons of the 90s for Least Developed Countries, also highlights a few models for progress.
Romney said Israel's economic progress provided a "model for others throughout the world".
With all this to his credit, you might think Leibniz must have been a reclusive academic, yet he made his living in the real world as a diplomat, political adviser and librarian, and was thus a model for the modern scientist engaged in the progress of society.
