Word: basic
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...percent of third-graders tested as "proficient" or "advanced" readers on the Iowa tests, a national standardized exam. Just two years later, that number was 75 percent--and the number of students testing as "basic" or "pre-readers" has declined steadily...
...distinguish between them is to imagine that racially and culturally diverse citizens and residents are not really integral to the country. But to affirm the diversity as basic to our self definition as Americans also affirms our pride in the liberal democratic traditions of this country," she wrote in April...
...communal college life. The House system took its strongest blow from students themselves, pushing for diverse interests and bored with the prospects of beer parties, holiday plays and football matches. Lowell's House system may well have been meant for another age, one in which students enjoyed the same basic pastimes and believed the same basic ideas...
...Though all 12 undergraduate Houses are linked by the same basic Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) network infrastructure and support, inhabitants say not all residential communities are virtually equal...
When enacted, the committee's recommendations will extend basic health insurance to nearly all of Harvard's non-casual workforce, including those subcontracted by outside firms and expand programs in job and educational training. Harvard employees who work 16 or more hours a week will be eligible for health benefits; previously, such benefits were reserved only for employees who worked at least 20 hours a week. The University will also refuse to contract with firms that do not provide health insurance for their employees. Furthermore, employees will have more access to job training and educational development programs, such as classes...