Both its small cites and one big town, Portland, were outperforming the national norms.

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Grade-schoolers fared only slightly better, with less than a third reading at or above national norms.

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Goldsmith and Wu argue that the range of national norms won't lead to a single solution.

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These gained, on average, five percentage points in reading and 15 points in maths, compared with national norms.

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Project proposals are analyzed based on national and international norms, whereby the child and adolescent are seen as being society's greatest asset.

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Much of what passes for international law is really at best international norms countries agree to follow, and politics or national interest when they decide not to.

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The Soviet of Nationalities is composed of delegations of republics' supreme representative organs of power and of national-territorial formations' organs of power according to agreed norms....The representation of all peoples living in the USSR on the Soviet of Nationalities is guaranteed.

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This last training will allow the fifteen members of its National Bioethics Committee not only to get a comprehensive understanding of the internationally-agreed norms on bioethics and human rights, but also to conduct situational analysis, to identify ethical dilemmas at the global level and in their country, and more specifically to learn the deliberative methodology used to deal with them.

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"What he is saying is 'I am not going to allow the world's norms to tell me what is possible, '" says Chris Twigg, national programme director of Galloway Training, of Atlanta, Georgia.

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