We finally argue that these benchmarks have to be computed at different levels of the achievement distribution, since interventions to reduce the gender gap often focus on specific target groups: the least or the most proficient students.
"In the task ahead, the benchmark has to be the countries that have been most competitive, not to reduce to the lowest common denominator," she said.
Scaleability of the benchmark allows testing systems of different sizes, and simplicity means that the benchmark has to be understandable and thereby credible.
Accessibility means that the benchmark has to be publicly available, solvability to set the level of the task on suitable level (not too difficult, not hoo hard), independence to guarantee that the benchmark has not been developed with tools to be tested, and evolution to keep the benchmark up-to-date during time.
The $3 billion, along with $1 billion from New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund, will provide half the money for the project, a benchmark that has to be reached to obtain federal matching funds.
To reach this benchmark a home has to be matchless in location, detail and history.
To approach or exceed this benchmark, a home has to be irreplaceable; indulgent upgrades and acres of land alone aren't enough.
But I think it comes back to our tradition that there has to be some benchmark.
Featherstone doesn't believe in quotas for promoting women writers: playwrights must write what they want, she believes, and excellence has to be the benchmark of commissioning.
Maverick is a tricky word to parse, but if it meant anything at all, then Clarke – off on his own path, sparring with authority – has to be the benchmark.
