The result of the public and government demand for increased accountability from schools is the spread of state-mandated tests to measure just what students had or had not learned.
The aim of state mandated tests is to provide a picture of student performance in order to inform parents, community members and school administrators. It is used to determine what students know and how well schools work in order to make intelligent decisions
I think that the most obvious effect that the Mayflower Compact had on the Declaration of Independence was that without the Compact, which acknowledged the sovereignty of the British Crown, there would have been no need to declare independence 150 years later. As far as similarities to the Constitution, I don't see them. The Constitution created a limited government, with no authority over it within lose limitations. The Compact created a government without limitations other than "majority rules", with another unlimited government (the Crown) above it. Near as I can see, they could have just stayed in England and had all that.
It was about seven billion
this is according to the United States Census Bureau, which argued that the world was seven billion as in March 2012. The United Nations on the other hand asserts that, however, the world population reached the seven billion mark in 2011. Currently the population stands at 7.6 billion.
<span>Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings, popes, and the wealthy have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors.</span>
