The phrase "achieved outstanding" is not correct as it lacks a noun to complete the thought.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe a specific achievement that is outstanding, but it needs to be followed by a noun.
Example: "She achieved outstanding results in her final exams."
Alternatives: "attained exceptional" or "reached remarkable".
Despite these constraints, there are poor countries that have nonetheless achieved outstanding results on international standardized achievement tests in the areas of language, mathematics, and science while also providing near-universal secondary education.
Effectively, they assumed that if a given a kindergarten class achieved outstanding results its teacher must have been responsible.
Schools such as Bygrove primary school in east London achieved outstanding results in the tests of literacy and numeracy.
He achieved outstanding success in several businesses and was recognized as a leading figure in the Spanish Jewish community.
"Wells Fargo achieved outstanding results for the second quarter," the bank's chief executive, John G. Stumpf, said in a statement.
Some of today's most creative conductors have achieved outstanding quality by deliberately focusing on their field of expertise and interest: Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Charles Mackerras come to mind.
It achieves outstanding results, transforming lives.
For every school underachieving in the north of England there are others doing brilliantly; even in schools with below average performance, there are teachers achieving outstanding results.
As the first laboratory (and one of the few buildings period) to achieve outstanding in the BREEAM green building assessment scheme, it also shows that efficiency doesn't require compromise in other areas.
Collaborative research may be one remedy against this tendency to know more and more about less and less, but collaborative writing, absent divine aid, is unlikely to achieve outstanding literary merit.
Until recently, buildings could only be "good" or "excellent"; Brockholes is on course to be the first building in its particular niche to achieve "outstanding", although the final judgment will not be made until it has been in use for a while.
