But Goldsmith's story makes that standard model of progress look like a tale of epic struggle and sacrifice out in the big bad world.
"In primary schools, we are raising the bar to improve standards and introducing a proper measure of progress from when children start school to age 11. "I want to see all children leaving primary school with a good standard of reading, writing and maths so that they can thrive at secondary school.
He then asks if the digital revolution measures up to the Industrial Revolution, or to the general standard of technological progress made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The senior Syrian official said that an opening to the West would bring the country increased tourism, trade, and investment, and a higher standard of living — progress that would eventually make it less reliant on Iran.
This is an absolute standard of scientific progress in the sense of Section 2.5.
In the past ten or 20 years its economic performance has been respectable, but no better (or worse) than that.Take economists' standard measure of material progress: the rate of economic growth (chart 1).
Officials continue to argue that the most important human right is the right not to die of hunger, and point to the great improvement in Chinese living standards as proof of progress while foreign governments prefer "constructive engagement" and "quiet diplomacy" to making a fuss about human rights abuses.
Nonprofit E.M.O.'s have a better track record of academic success than for-profits, and smaller E.M.O.'s in general perform better than larger ones, at least defined by the federal standard of adequate yearly progress — a metric Dr. Miron called "very crude".
The report on Iraq that was presented there, while scarcely a glowing assessment, was noticeably rosier than a draft version that began to circulate last week, which found that Iraq had fallen short on 13 of the 18 standards for progress, partly meeting two.
