Sentences with phrase «population achieves a higher standard»

As its economy evolves and its population achieves a higher standard of living, China is looking around the world to build stronger trading relationships.

Not exact matches

It is true that some high - achieving countries do have national standards — examples include Singapore and Finland — but these countries contain small homogeneous populations that might be more comparable to one of our states or large districts than to the U.S. as a whole.

Three of the four districts we analyzed in detail have high poverty / high minority populations, yet they all welcomed the standards movement as helping them to define and achieve important (local) education goals.