The film, which has its premiere Monday on HBO, observes the 2005 school year at Frederick Douglass High in Baltimore, a troubled institution that has not fared well in meeting the benchmarks established by No Child Left Behind, President Bush's education initiative.
Statewide, a total of 618 schools — or more than one-quarter of the state's 2,430 public schools — were cited in August because too few of their students passed the statewide tests in 2007 under benchmarks established by the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Check out the Benchmarks established by AAAS's Project 2061, and the National Research Council's National Science Education Standards, for more information.
New Designs-Watts has missed all of the minimum performance benchmarks established by the association.
With Belgrade eager to meet the benchmarks established by the European Union, Serbia will soon have to address these human rights problems more seriously.
A US Geological Society study published in July found the highest levels detected were at least 40 times lower than benchmarks established by EPA to be protective of aquatic life, and most were up to 1,000 times below that level.
For carcinogens, we calculated risk ratios by dividing chemical intakes by cancer benchmarks established by the EPA.
The proposed 'good practice statements' will all evolve into benchmarks established by governments at the forefront of implementing food policies for good health (see objective 3).
We evaluated the method against the GAGE benchmarks established by Salzberg et al [ 18] to compare assembly quality with other de novo assembly tools.
There has been mounting pressure on healthcare organisations to improve quality of care, either by achieving certain quality benchmarks established by health authorities or through membership in regional and national QI initiatives.
