Staff at the Yemen Data Project said they adopted rigorous standards, using news reports aligned with both sides in the conflict and crosschecked against other sources, such as social media, non-governmental organisations and evidence on the ground.
To address such issues it is imperative that participation adopt rigorous standards of transparency and accountability because without these, public involvement could "undermine, rather than enhance public trust " (Turnbull and Aucoin 2006, 7).
Many states are adopting rigorous new academic standards for high schools, but those improvements could take years to put into place.
Care organizations and doctors' practices must be restructured to allow more in-depth conversations; clinicians need to be reimbursed for the time required for more meaningful conversations; and health care systems must adopt rigorous quality standards that measure and value real patient engagement in decisions.
The solution, they say, is to adopt rigorous national standards that will turn the high school diploma into a "common national currency".
To be eligible for a share of the $4.35 billion in grants, states had to adopt rigorous Common Core standards for math and English and use the test results not only to evaluate students but teachers and schools.
Forty-six stands and the District of Columbia submitted applications for the Race to the Top competition in Phases 1 and 2. Since then, 35 states and the District of Columbia adopted rigorous common-core standards in reading and math, and 34 states changed laws or policies to improve their education systems.
Although most leading journals have taken steps to make ghostwriting less likely -- questioning would-be authors more intensely to ferret out conflicts of interest and requiring that all authors and contributors list the nature of their contributions in detail -- not all journals have adopted such rigorous standards.
When it began, skeptics far outweighed supporters; many said it would be impossible to get a critical mass of food companies to voluntarily adopt such rigorous standards.
In exchange for that money, he required states to show they would adopt more rigorous standards, build data systems, increase the number of charter schools and fire teachers based on merit, not seniority, as union contracts had long mandated.
It has adopted rigorous criteria that must be achieved and are aligned with shareholder interests.
