Sentence examples for behind standards from inspiring English sources

If you dial back on federal controls (like eliminating No Child Left Behind standards), what would force states to do better?

There are plenty of shortcomings and allegations of corruption, but in a fair number of African countries the bureaucracies are not far behind standards in, say, India.Transport management in particular has become much better.

In a town like Chicago Heights, where only 16 percent of high schoolers met the Illinois version of the No Child Left Behind standards in 2011, finding a clear way to increase cognitive abilities has obvious appeal.

While that is a far cry from the days when it took as long as 100, he said, it is still far behind standards in Europe and the United States and even further below the best Japanese plants.

While the No Child Left Behind standards mandate arts as part of the core curriculum (which is an admirable first at the federal level), many school districts see the arts as expendable, extraneous or extracurricular.

David Figlio, a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University, said that because of Florida's accountability measures, which are more nuanced than the national No Child Left Behind standards, "early-year literacy and numeracy skills seem to be improving, especially for schools that serve disadvantaged populations".

Congressional Democrats have argued that the legality of the swap hasn't been fully evaluated, and that the "leave no man behind" standard should be upheld.

After all, he said: "The U.S.D.A., the big ag schools, colleges, land grants, universities — they're all behind standard farming, which is: sterilize the soil.

Mr. Hillman followed his mentor's lead in taking aim at the assumptions behind standard psychotherapies, including Freudian analysis, arguing that the best clues for understanding the human mind lay in myth and imagination, not in standard psychological or medical concepts.

PCB performance classes and producibility levels are also described, along with the basic ideas behind standard fabrication allowances.

In truth, a passive bin Laden, a wife shot accidentally by the American strike team, three not very fanatical guards, and a villa readily visible from the street behind standard 12 foot walls.