Sentence examples for rigorous performance standards from inspiring English sources

There are more rigorous performance standards.

Rather than "glorified day care," EarlyLearnNYC demands more professional development for teachers, rigorous performance standards, the use of a developmentally appropriate, research-based curriculum and measurable outcomes.

"There are rigorous performance standards in the Intergraph agreement that so far have been met across the board," said Kamran Mumtaz, a mayoral spokesman.

The charter option should not be ruled out -- as long as schools developed under its rubric remain open to all citizens and are held accountable to rigorous performance standards and taxpayer scrutiny, and provided that privatization is not a cover for channeling money from public education to parochial schools.

Confidence in and acceptance of these models will also require rigorous performance standards and appropriate controls to ensure reproducibility and stability over time (see below) and adequate sensitivity and specificity to discriminate toxic from non-toxic responses.

F-for-P is particularly well suited to biomarkers assays since for a variety of reasons, the rigorous performance standards normally applied to bioanalytical methods are not appropriate [ 24, 25].

The SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY was highly regarded before Michael Tilson Thomas became its music director in 1995, but by programming adventurously and imposing a rigorous performance standard, Mr. Thomas has kicked his ensemble into the American orchestral top tier.

It is among the first higher education facilities to seek the Living Building Challenge Petal certification, the world's most rigorous performance standard for buildings.

While other colleges try and fail to enforce zero-tolerance policies, Reed has developed more realistic, community-based enforcement mechanisms, like a joint student-faculty council and judiciary that oversee Reed's code of conduct, drug education and clinical intervention, and rigorous academic performance standards.

Testing on BMW's Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel prototype by the U.S. DOE has concluded that the hydrogen-powered engine surpasses the most rigorous of emissions performance standards.

Page A11 AUDIT FOR ENERGY LOANS The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for alternative energy projects needs more rigorous financial oversight and stricter performance standards for recipients to reduce the chance of future defaults, according to an audit conducted by the White House.