 Principals and teachers have received bonuses or been fired, students have been promoted or retained in their current grade, and legislation has been passed so that high school students will graduate or be denied a diploma based on whether or not they had met the standards, usually as measured by a criterion-referenced test.The standards-based National Education Goals (Goals 2000) were set by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s.Many of these goals were based on the principles of outcomes-based education, and not all of the goals were attained by the year 2000 as was intended.