Sentence examples for benchmark for progress from inspiring English sources
Under the tentative proposal, students in the fourth and eighth grades would be required to take the current standardized national test every other year to serve as a benchmark for progress.
The Parliament still has not passed legislation about how the country's oil and gas revenues should be divided — years after the Bush administration set such a law as a benchmark for progress.
NAEP results are highly anticipated in the education world and often seen as a benchmark for progress in school systems — even though the results are often misinterpreted (which you can read about here).
"As you can see from our selection, we've made a lot of changes since Beijing where we finished 18th overall and that medal performance has been our benchmark for progress ever since," he said.
To relinquish such leverage before any of the EU's benchmarks for progress have been met would be a damaging mistake.
The federal government provides recommendations for optimal diet quality through the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and sets benchmarks for progress toward these recommendations through the Healthy People objectives.
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to further bolster American forces in Afghanistan and for the first time set benchmarks for progress in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban there and in Pakistan, officials said Thursday.
To do so, he said he would increase aid to Pakistan and would, for the first time, set benchmarks for progress in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban in both countries.
During an appearance before a Congressional committee in 2007, he said the focus on Iraq should not be measured by benchmarks for progress and deadlines for troop withdrawals but by the informal ways in which Iraq had begun to improve.
Mr. Edwards said he would change the benchmarks for progress in the schools to put greater emphasis on students as they move grade to grade, rather than the current law's snapshot of a class as a whole.
