This book offers a series of carefully considered essays by policy experts on the standards movement and ways to more effectively translate standards theory into effective practice. (edweek.org)
If, then, the tenacity of prophecy belief can not be explained in terms of standard theories of deprivation, and if it seems to have little pay - off in the secular political realm, why does it persist at all? (religion-online.org)
Standard theories say that matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the universe's first instants, but for unknown reasons, matter prevailed. (newscientist.com)