Sentences with phrase «system of yardsticks»

Not exact matches

The PISA assessment of Global Competence provides a yardstick to assess to what extent education systems are living up to that expectation.»

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute was one of the leading voices offering these ideas in a mutually reinforcing framework, recognizing that innovative schools needed the yardstick for quality that standards create, and accountability systems alone don't build the pressure that the school choice agenda promised.

Those results, among the first trickling out from states» newly revamped yardsticks, paint a picture of a K - 12 system that remains hesitant to differentiate between the best and the weakest performers — as well as among all those in the middle doing a solid job who still have room to improve.

The equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is a convenient yardstick to measure how sensitively the climate system responds to perturbations in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases such as CO2.