Second, new regulations permit the use of alternate assessments based on modified academic achievement standards to report proficiency for up to 2% of students in a state.

The plaintiffs' implicit, if not overt, suggestion that achievement standards be read into the constitution is probably the most specious of all their legal claims.

Every content standard is followed by several achievement standards describing how students are to demonstrate mastery of the content standards.

Increasingly schools are placing fewer standards in a course,especially external achievement standards.

The district used $89,155 to improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet State academic achievement standards.

The Act does not assert a national achievement standard; standards are set by each individual state.

As educators strive to bring all children to high achievement standards, they are starting to create schools with widely divergent cultures depending in part on demographics.

The law allows states to define their own achievement standards, but imposes sanctions on schools whose students fail to make adequate progress.

Asked "would you favor or oppose requiring the public schools in this community to conform to national achievement standards and goals?"

Creating an achievement standard, he said in comments supporting the group's findings, is "a radical notion that is not radical anywhere else in the world."