A number of prominent Washington think tanks, including the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and the Center for American Progress, have argued that proficiency standards vary so widely that they should be replaced by
a single national definition.
Not exact matches
Though it was a case report (and so by
definition described only a
single patient), it is consistent with data going back more than 50 years, when researchers in Finland blamed the consumption of milk from cows grazing on cruciferous plants for contributing to the
national epidemic of goiter.
Variation in
definitions across states means that the
national estimates we have produced are based not on a
single definition of maltreatment, as would be ideal, but on many
definitions of maltreatment.