Sentences with phrase «children hit that benchmark»

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New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Policies like top - down accountability, No - Child - Left - Behind style, are «hard,» but they have a «thin» theory of change — namely that if we set standards and hold people accountable for meeting them, they will figure out how to hit those benchmarks.

In addition to top rankings on several bestseller lists, the children's book depicting Colton's trip, «Heaven Is for Real for Kids,» has hit a new benchmark: # 1 on the children's picture books list of the New York -LSB-...]