Another side effect of the standards movement in the United States has been greater attention to educational achievement levels in other countries.
The web standards movement, led by Jeffrey Zeldman and others (great interview with Zeldman here, on The Great Discontent), paved the way for the large chunk of app development that can now be done in HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript and work on all platforms.
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As the standards movement gained strength in the early 1990s, however, educational and political leaders at the state, district, and even school levels began to show greater interest in how other countries defined academic quality and how U.S. students fared in relation to their peers in other nations.
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.
Only in 1990, with the emergence of a movement to promote standards in education, was NAEP allowed to publish scores showing how students fared in various states.
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.
An overall lighter weight vehicle allows a shipper to pack more goods in a truck and still stay within fuel standards, which will increase freight movement.
Some critics of the choice and accountability movement have suggested national voluntary curriculum and standards so that kids in Arizona and kids in Connecticut are learning at the same level, or at least have the same basic set of guidelines.
While he has frequently criticized the large gap between rich and poor in Latin America, he never followed many of his fellow Jesuits in pursuing Liberation Theology in the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that sought to lift the living standards for the region's poor.
The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.
As well as championing open standards, he is also interested in the open source movement and says Domino will be able to work with the Linux free Operating System.
Innovators in the green information-technology movement reap good publicity from their ever-higher standards of energy efficiency.
The judges enter the Garden through a back door and are given the breed standards, the definitions for each dog's appearance and movement, of the seven group winners.
Notwithstanding any other arguments on the issue, it is our contention that it is the IOC itself which violates the Olympic Charter and brings the Movement into disrepute, by discriminating against Ms Thanou and by simply trying to apply double standards.
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