Word: reforms
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...been attending the church of baseball his whole life. The son and grandson of Yale baseball-team captains, Bush learned from his mother the special hieroglyphics that aficionados use to keep score. He knows the statistics and anecdotes of the game the way Bill Clinton knows welfare reform. Baseball, it seems, reveals a truth about Bush: when engaged, he plunges in heart and soul...
...House passed its version of the bankruptcy bill last year. The Senate enacted its bill in February. Now members of both chambers are meeting in secret to iron out differences and put their finishing touches on what they call the Bankruptcy Reform Act, which has the ostensible goal of curbing abuses...
...Whenever you talk about reform, change, accountability or standards, you typically start off at the top," he says. "You don't start with the kids...
MCAS is a "tool of education reform rather than a measure of the success of education reform," she says. "It's as if they're trying to make the test do the work...
Supporters of the exam also see the test doing some of the work of education reform, but to them this is a merit, not a defect. They hope MCAS will spur changes in curriculum...