The accountability provisions of standards-based reform in the United States are for the most part enforced by testing.
Indeed, the FEHBP has long been considered a model for market-based reform of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The emergence of standards-based reform reflects a number of significant educational trends.
Tony Blair's attempts at market-based reform of public services count for nothing.
Finally, as already noted, standards-based reform represents an affirmation of the notion that, in and of itself, enhanced access is of little value.
The problem is that the current tax code creates so many winners and losers that any broad-based reform will inevitably do the same.
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"Standards-based reform" uses a strategy of coordinating goals, instruction, and assessment.
Its policy of forcing budgetary discipline and market-based reform on member-countries has had the broad support of most pro-capitalist economists, though the developing world has been less enthusiastic.
It fact, advisors to former Governor Romney will tell you that the state-based reform was only adapting to the status quo in the federal tax code, not an attempt to change it.
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Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.
Likewise, the standards-based reform movement of the 1990s has highlighted and given new urgency to the problems of students who are not being well served by the current education system and are thus at risk of failing to meet new, higher standards in the future.
Change is working with the Reform movement, and other faith-based groups, to reform the federal faith-based initiatives, improving the way we partner with organizations that serve people in need.
If a consumption-based tax reform like this had been passed in 2000, North Carolina would be an entirely different place.
And that makes any broad-based tax reform in 2013 very difficult.
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Or, to put it another way, who would lose if Congress trimmed or even eliminated some of these provisions as part of a broad-based tax reform.
Obama has shown little interest in broad-based tax reform.
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The Charlottesville Summit gave visibility and credibility to the benefits of setting ambitious goals, and it helped set the stage for the "standards-based" reform movement that was to become the defining educational movement of the 1990s in the United States.
He also wants broad-based individual tax reform that raises no more money than current law.
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But the chances of broad-based individual tax reform in 2013 seem to be slipping by the day.
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And 4% growth will create a climate for spending reform based on policy quality, rather than fiscal panic.
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We asked federal employees to submit reform proposals based on their experiences.
Mr Tomlinson's proposed reform is based on a new four-tiered diploma, which almost all pupils should be able to complete at some level.
Instead of block grants, Medicare reform is based on something akin to vouchers, sort of like the health system available for Members of Congress.
Unfortunately, the calls for reform are based on the false premise that our criminal-justice system is filled with individuals whose behavior can be changed through more punishment.
The standards-based approach to school reform begins by looking at the goals that policy makers seek to accomplish and then works backward to design ways of reaching these goals.
The ceasefire, they say, was the Tanzim's contribution to a new PA program of "reform" based on Israel's gradual withdrawal from the Palestinian areas in return for the PA's gradual resumption of policing duties within them.
But what the HMOs are doing is rational and predictable, based on how the health reform laws were written.
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Corporate tax reform should be based at most on a global average 25% corporate rate, with revenue neutral loophole closing, also scored dynamically.
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In the background, however, there is a heated squabble over how to reform the Paris-based organisation's internal governance.
Boosting employment-based green cards is a great reform but it is not going to eliminate the need for a workable H-1B temporary visa (and a higher annual quota).
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