Imagine a world where shoe sizes were not standardized, or where golf balls came in a variety of sizes and weights.
Major league ballparks are not standardized in size mainly for historical or local reasons, and remain non-standardized for practical and historical reasons.
Buy-side firms are asking for more information on where trades are executed but the data from brokers is hard to use, not standardized and filled with gaps such as how long the broker held a trade to try executing it in its own dark pool before sending it on.
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Second, although being a good citizen means supporting certain core principles, civic education should not be fully standardized.
So what we want to do is not completely eliminate standardized tests -- there's a role for standardized tests.
These are all common questions that are different across cards and not listed in any standardized box.
Standardized test may not be the reason why but they certainly help entrench a false meritocracy.
But we do not have the power to request standardized data delivered consistently on a daily basis.
They may not boast the highest GPAs or standardized testing scores, but show a propensity to succeed based on overcoming personal obstacles in their lives.
But test leaks occur because there is demand for an advantage from students' parents, said Shim Jai-ok, executive director of the Korean-American Educational Commission in Seoul, which administers Fulbright grants and a number of standardized exams, but not the SAT tests.
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For decades, research has confirmed that the big factor in determining how much students learn is not class size or the extent of standardized testing but the quality of their teachers.
Admittedly, standardized consumer-based products are not Cisco's bread and butter.
Without nationwide standardized testing, the data simply would not exist to make the case for or against charter and non-unionized public schools.
Some of these functions are standardized across companies, but many are not.
The United States is one of the few countries left in the world who still have not converted to using the Metric System as a standardized system of measurement.
His push to improve public education has lacked ambition: Administration officials admit they made standardized tests the centerpiece of their plan not because anyone thinks they are the most vital improvement but because they are the least expensive.
So I just -- I just had a meeting with my team this week about this, trying to find ways that we can improve the assessment system so we're still holding schools accountable, we're still holding teachers accountable, but we're not just holding them accountable for a score on a standardized test, but we have a richer way of assessing whether these schools are making progress.
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Last year a Broward math teacher could not understand why his brightest eighth-grade students were scoring merely average on their Stanford standardized tests.
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