Instead, education officials across the world believe that by setting clear, achievable, higher standards, aligning the curriculum, and assessing outcomes, learning can be increased for all students, and more students can succeed than the 50 percent who are defined to be above or below grade level by norm referenced standards.

Instead, it requires that students demonstrate that they have learned the required skills and content.

Instead, all six selected finalists were students of Charles Lenepveu, a member of the jury and heir apparent of Dubois as director of the Conservatoire.

Instead of limiting students to attending courses or reading printed manuals, students are able to acquire knowledge and skills through methods that are much more conducive to individual learning preferences.

Instead of following Dearing's suggestions, the grant was replaced by the present loan scheme, introduced for students starting in 1998.

Instead, he gained the ear of professors at Laval University in Quebec City, and Bull and a number of graduate students started work on a tunnel similar to the one he had earlier built at the UofT.

Instead, functional rather than geographical intelligence requirements came to the fore such as counter-proliferation ( via the agency's Production and Targeting, Counter-Proliferation Section ) which had been a sphere of activity since the discovery of Pakistani physics students studying nuclear-weapons related subjects in 1974 ; counter-terrorism ( via two joint sections run in collaboration with the Security Service, one for Irish republicanism and one for international terrorism ); counter-narcotics and serious crime ( originally set up under the Western Hemisphere Controllerate in 1989 ); and a ' global issues ' section looking at matters such as the environment and other public welfare issues.

Instead, its purpose is to assist immigrants and to help students enroll in one of the CUNY schools.

Instead, students should be paired with others who have different perspectives.

Instead he became associated with students from Angola and other Portuguese colonies who were preparing themselves for anti-colonial resistance and had contacts with the clandestine Portuguese Communist Party.

Instead, the students forced him to his knees by beatings and forced him to beg for an apology.

Instead, these universities provide unrestricted access to the first-year curriculum in medicine ; and the best first-year students are allowed to further their medical studies at the same or at another university.

Instead of taking his degree, he continued to live with the students as their hero and leader, and formed them into a sort of army, which he commanded as their provost.

Instead of conducting separate but identical undergraduate courses for Harvard students and students from Radcliffe College, Conant instituted co-educational classes.

Instead of completing the general education requirements at Western, students take interdisciplinary classes at Fairhaven which aim to cover the same breadth and depth of subjects, but within small, interdisciplinary seminars.

Instead, Richards collected tuition directly from the students as they entered the classroom each week.

Instead, he was doing something unprecedented in the field of literary studies: he was interrogating the interpretive process itself by analyzing the self-reported interpretive work of students.

Instead of having to pay each year while studying, students are to be loaned the funds by the government and repayments will be made out of income once the graduate is earning more than £ 15000 per year.

Instead, it grades first-semester first-year students on a simple Credit / No Credit system.

Instead of dormitories, Kresge housing consisted of apartments, suites ( which allowed students to have small single rooms ), and octets.

Instead, schools were attended by interested students from a much larger region.

Instead, the Celts that dwelled along the ocean were reported to venerate twin gods ( Dioscori ) that appeared to them coming from that ocean.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.

Instead, these efforts, it is argued, were made in order to advance Western development and reinforce Western hegemony.

Instead, water clocks in ancient societies were used mainly for astrological reasons.

Instead, he returned with the new idea to produce electronic calculators, which were just coming on the market.

Instead of a mere reproduction of the Cyclopaedia, he persuaded Le Breton to enter upon a new work, which would collect all the active writers, ideas, and knowledge that were moving the cultivated class of the Republic of Letters to its depths but were comparatively ineffectual due to their dispersion.

* Instead of oral laws known to a special class, arbitrarily applied and interpreted, all laws were written, thus made known to all literate citizens ( who could make appeal to the Areopagus for injustices ): "... the constitution formed under Draco, when the first code of laws was drawn up.

Instead, they were seen as the gods ' representatives, effecting their will on earth.

Instead connections to Claudius and Britannicus were emphasised, and Nero's victims, or those otherwise disadvantaged by him, rehabilitated.

Instead of finding himself in serious trouble for acting as though he were joining forces with the Catholics, Elizabeth sent two Gentlemen Pensioners to summon him back within the month.

Instead, claiming that Italians were a superior race to African races and thereby had the right to colonize the " inferior " Africans, it sought to settle 10 to 15 million Italians in Libya.

Instead, women were taught to be committed to their husbands and " all his interests … show attention and care … sincere and discreet zeal for his salvation.

Instead of treating every user as client and server, some users were now treated as ultrapeers, routing search requests and responses for users connected to them.

Instead of all nodes being considered equal, nodes entering into the network were kept at the ' edge ' of the network as a leaf, not responsible for any routing, and nodes which were capable of routing messages were promoted to ultrapeers, which would accept leaf connections and route searches and network maintenance messages.

Instead of loading individual rounds into weapons, magazines holding multiple munitions were adopted-these aided rapid reloading.

Instead, the political institutions of the Länder were practically abolished altogether, passing all powers to the central government.

Instead, they were ' community councils ' for smaller, rural settlements, which did not have a local government district to themselves.

Instead, women's coats of arms were shown on a lozenge – a rhombus standing on one of its acute corners, an oval or a cartouche.