Sentence examples for set of common standards from inspiring English sources
The bureaucrats charged with implementing the Common Core dodge the flak from right and left, pointing out that the Common Core is a set of common standards, not a prescribed curriculum.
Can a new editors' code establish a set of common standards that would be enforceable?
New Jersey went so far as to get the faculty at its public colleges and universities to adopt a set of common standards and tests to measure them -- only to abandon the effort for lack of money and political will.
But American and European officials agreed last month to work toward a set of common standards, which in some instances will mean modifying American rules to conform to the international accounting standards generally used in Europe -- an idea that was virtually unthinkable as recently as a year ago.
A consortium of 48 states (Texas and Alaska sat out) has been drafting a set of common standards in maths and reading, and Mr Obama has announced that states will have to adopt higher ones if they want more federal funds.
IBM made the mistake of opening up its sector through a set of common standards, ultimately leading to its demise.
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The World Bank Group approved its first set of common environmental standards in 2001, for the first time making environmental stewardship part of its core mission of reducing poverty.
A senior Obama administration official, speaking in Seoul, said the advance draft of a joint communiqué under consideration by the member nations would adopt a set of "indicative guidelines" that set common standards for assessing trade balances and prompting diplomatic discussions about them when they grow too large.
"I think it's ultimately the responsibility of an international regime to set a common metric, to set common standards, perhaps even translate those into guidelines," he said, adding that that work could lead to establishing common guidelines.
The new members are bound by an EU code of conduct agreed in 1998, which set out "high common standards" for the management of the arms trade.
