Sentences with phrase «international benchmarks like»

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At that time, they tracked the performance of a broad - based benchmark like the Standard & Poor's 500 index, all U.S. stocks or international stock markets.

You look at countries like China, Finland, Canada, where they're killing us on international benchmarks, absolutely destroying us on these tests.

Many admire Singapore's excellent achievement in international educational benchmark exams like PISA, but few realize the hard work it took to get there.

The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, two nonprofit coalitions, developed the Common Core out of a concern that the United States was falling behind on international measures of student achievement and stagnating on its own benchmarks of success, like the National Assessment of Education Progress.

The Center on International Education Benchmarking lists South Korea as a «top performer,» and even Arne Duncan, the former U.S. secretary of education, has asked why the United States can't be more like South Korea.

They want to create some of the «best schools in the world,» and according to BASIS.ed scores on the PISA exam, students are well on their way to proving that mission — and as BASIS likes to emphasize, they even score better than high - performing students in Shanghai (International Benchmarking, 2016), which is usually one of the highest performing regions on the PISA exam.