The creation of a standard gauge railway to Juba in South Sudan, with a branch line to Ethiopia, at a cost of over $ 7 billion (Sh595 billion). (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
«Standards in the United States have not been and will not be decoupled from testing, nor from the profit motive that's at least partly driving the creation of standards - based reform and test - based accountability,» says Buttimer. (gse.harvard.edu)
Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality. (educationnext.org)