Competition can be a great driver of achievement, but so can collaboration.
"The study found that getting parents involved with their children's learning at home is a more powerful driver of achievement than parents attending P.T.A. and school board meetings, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fund-raising, and showing up at back-to-school nights".
Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields.
Overall, the international evidence provides little confidence that quantitative measures of expenditure and class size are a major driver of student achievement, across and within countries.
Others point out the mandatory military service most young Israelis are required to fulfill when they turn 18 as a driver of high achievement.
While designing the NURHI project, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shared with program designers an overview of its 2008 reproductive health strategy, in which it estimated through its own calculations that "demand issues comprise 70% of the problem and, therefore, are an even larger driver for achievement of our goals".
Likewise, Putnam (2015) stresses the widening divide in attitudes toward nurturing children within all racial groups, thus shifting the focus from race to class as a driver of differences in educational achievement.
Traditional certificates are designed to establish and document characteristics belonging to a specific individual, be it an identification number (i.e., social security number, driver's license number), a level of achievement (i.e., college degree, license to practice a profession), or membership status (i.e., company ID, trade union card).
For MDG 5 (improve maternal health), a pillar of achievement is increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR), a core driver of maternal and reproductive health.
The premise of POS research is that by understanding the drivers of positive behavior in the workplace, organizations can rise to new levels of achievement.
These commitments of devoting 0.7% of GNI to development generally, and this landmark pledge to the Global Fund by the UK government and this challenge to other global leaders, gives British people the opportunity to be a significant driver in the achievement of truly incredible results.
