Word: benchmarking
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...students bombed the AP test, that would show that my own tests were too easy-and that my students weren't really learning anything. The House, worried about establishing a national curriculum, allows states to opt out of NAEP and use different exams for comparison. But with no national benchmark, it will be much harder for the feds to monitor the quality of state exams-and to sanction states that make their tests too easy...
...last round of debt reduction, Princeton University set the benchmark by replacing all student loans with grants in January. This move was soon followed by Harvard's February announcement that it would grant financial aid recipients an additional $2,000 to apply towards the self-help requirement, or the portion that students are expected to contribute to their aid package...
Harvard will be hard-pressed to finish at the top of the Heptagonal tally next season with record-breaking athletes like Schutte, Taylor and Gyorffy departing at the end of the season. The achievements of these 2001 Crimson seniors will be the benchmark of Harvard teams for years to come...
...officials say Jon Jacobson, one of HMC’s top investors, was just too good to lose. In his final year at HMC, Jacobson’s fund saw a return of 42.4 percent—solidly outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark rise of 34.7 percent...
...there are those who argue that tax cuts alongside falling interest rates are the proper pick-me-up for the economy. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems game. He has endorsed tax cuts and took the benchmark Federal Funds rate down to 4% from 6.5% last December. Sinai says that without a tax cut the economy would grow 1.6% this year; with...