Word: basics
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Before the Gore and Bush camps even entered the picture, however, the commission labored over the basic structure of the debates, beginning with dates and locations...
...quality of public education is growing ever worse. Test scores and national ranking against other countries' students have declined, and in a society that is very much divided in those who can read and those who cannot, 77 percent of children in urban high-poverty schools are reading "below basic" on the National Assessment of Educational Progress...
Instead of allowing problems like illiteracy to fester and remain a life-long stumbling block to disadvantaged students, Bush will hold schools accountable to meet certain basic standards. As part of a comprehensive plan to "leave no child behind," his policy ensures that every child will learn to read by the third grade. In continuing his commitment to low-income families and disadvantaged minorities in inner city schools, Bush proposes testing done on a disaggregated basis, allowing for tallying scores on the basis of race and income. Under these grids we can be sure that the achievement gap is eliminated...
...concept had lodged itself in his head, and he couldn't shake it. He began taking his notebook computer everywhere--to basketball games and the pizzeria--and tapping away on it, working out some basic programming kernels and wondering if this were even possible...
George W. Bush had a simple fiscal policy as Texas governor: He called for meeting the people's "basic needs" and returning what's left to "the hands who earned it." But it didn't work that way for Ray Haros, a poor kid from Austin's barrio in need of health insurance. While Bush delivered $2.7 billion in tax relief, Ray got left out of the equation...