Word: basic
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...principals...The School Committee must act like a board, and not as individual politicians, and set priorities for its CEO (the Superintendent)...I do believe standardized testing, while certainly not perfect, must play a more prominent role than it has in the past, and the lack of focus upon basic skills is reflected in our low-test scores...
...bought a first-generation product, Apple's all-white iBooks. "I remember the first year--the issues were ridiculous!" says Chris Rose, who teaches humanities. "I mean, CD drives were popping out, the plugs were not working, there were battery problems. It wasn't software; it was really basic stuff." It also didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going...
...your networked notebooks, experiment with the router's placement. Indoor range should be about 300 ft., but will be significantly reduced by walls, hallways and other barriers. If you are getting interference from a baby monitor or microwave, try changing the channel (a minor tweak in your router's basic settings). If your cordless phone is a problem, get one that automatically looks for a clear channel or, better yet, one that uses the 5.8-GHz band...
...matter of minutes was pumping Lou Reed through the sound system in our playroom. When lunch rolled around, I volunteered to make Monte Cristo sandwiches--first paying a quick visit to google.com to search for a recipe. The sandwich turned out to be your basic French toast with some turkey, ham and cheese. It would have been no trouble at all if it hadn't been for the splatter from the frying egg--drenched toast that laid a coating of grease on my wife's clean white laptop. This time she was on the scene and watched it happen...
...observances we took for granted as unique to our cultural communities. Our cultural identities work as a sort of shorthand for the experiences we share in common; cultural organizations are so appealing because they can provide an instant connection to people whose lives are in some basic way similar to ours...