It is not just enough to improve the quality of the teaching standards, as was done in the past, it is also important to improve the overall quality of school leadership and management to allow teachers to become more effective in their roles.

UNESCO: Professional Standards for School Principals: Tuvalu Initial Workshop | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The award aims to raise standards and improve the quality of towns and cities at night.

BBC: Torquay at night

Creates news standards to improve the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Last month in New Hampshire, I laid out my agenda to improve health care quality: a plan to raise standards, educate patients and help our doctors and nurses provide world-class care.

CNN: Clinton's September 17, 2007, speech on health care

The owners of Rosewood House in Gateshead were twice warned last year by Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors to improve standards.

BBC: Rosewood Care fined over failures at Gateshead home

As CEO, Duncan's mandate was to raise education standards and performance, improve teacher and principal quality, and increase learning options.

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GM, Ford and Chrysler tried to improve: by 2006 they had almost caught up with Japanese standards of efficiency and even quality.

ECONOMIST: The decline and fall of General Motors

Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.

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