The Potomac setting differs from most similar incidents because the school already was in the upper echelon of achievement even as supervisors pressed students to do better.
"All debate and fretting over STEM stuff, where boys go into STEM fields and do better at math, that is all at the upper end of achievement," said Geary.
"I'm not surprised, because we've had the benefit of seeing her every day, but I'm still surprised and in awe of the achievement," upper school director Randy Comfort told Minneapolis news outlet KARE11.
Even then, though, how do we distinguish different kinds and levels of achievement at the upper end?
Nonetheless, the filmmaker's invisibility and silence, the artificial elimination of her conspicuous presence from the action, places a sort of upper bound on its aesthetic achievement; she evokes a world, but falls short of placing it within the world.
4. The Breakthrough: Jill Bolte Taylor on Her Stroke TED's live audience, like its speakers, tends to represent the upper echelons of education, public achievement, and wealth: everyone from Al Gore to Pat Mitchell and Bill Gates has sat in TED's seats as spectators, and the conference sells its pricey tickets through an application that includes essays and references.
The revenue the practice earns varies linearly between lower and upper thresholds of coverage, called "achievement" A∈[0,1].
Practices are awarded points based on the proportion of appropriate patients (that is, those not exception reported) for whom targets are achieved, between a lower achievement threshold of 40% and an upper threshold that varies by indicator (table 1).
12 Under the QOF, practices are awarded points for each quality indicator based on the proportion of patients for whom targets are achieved, between a lower achievement threshold of 40% and an upper threshold that varies by indicator from 50%to90%0%.
