If continuously raising standardized test scores were made the sole criterion for schools avoiding being labelled in "need of intervention and support" and subjected to intervention, schools would continue to feel under pressure to make raising test scores their overriding objective.
(In no specific order, but with particular relevance to long-term TA) When you begin work as a technical advisor, your 2 immediate, overriding objectives are to establish trust and to demonstrate that you can add value.
One of our overriding objectives is to ensure that individual and cultural goals are in sync.
Unfortunately, stability and employment are the overriding objectives of Beijing.
My report sets out two overriding objectives: a relentless drive to raise standards and to offer equal opportunity, facilitated by bringing coherence to the chaotic schools system.
Mr. Obama must tell the American people that these, indeed, are the overriding objectives.
Its overriding objectives are the election as president of Vice-President Al Gore, who supports the China bill, and winning a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
Distinguished Delegates, the panorama of achievements and progress set forth in the Executive Director's Report makes it clear that amid all our preparations for the 21st Century, UNICEF's overriding objectives for children remain the same.
The overriding objectives of the U.S. pandemic plan are "(1) limiting the burden of disease (i.e., morbidity and mortality); (2) minimizing social disruption caused by the pandemic; and (3) reducing economic losses attributable to the pandemic" [ 32].
Their new slogan is "fiscal responsibility with a social conscience": not the catchiest, perhaps, but one that conveys a sense that their priorities in government will be addressing debt, which Mr Cameron says will be his "overriding objective", without grinding the poor.
