Word: basics
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Because of the vast amounts of information needed to analyze higher educational outcomes, most early assessment programs measured student knowledge with standardized tests such as Florida's university system's "rising junior exam," which was required of all students before they could enroll as third-year undergraduates. These basic skills tests are easy to use but draw wide criticism from educators, who argue that they trivialize higher education by not testing higher-order skills...
This view is opposed by those who feel that the liberalized curriculum of the 60s and 70s has adversly affected higher education. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, for example, has suggested that all college students be required to read the "great books" of Western civilization. This "back-to-basics" version of assessment has found strong support among several state legislatures which have mandated basic-skills tests and specific curricular reforms in public universities. While Harvard is not subject to state mandated reforms, it is closely studying assessment projects at schools that...
...unmolested, as if it was an incredible, unprecedented gift to let the head of a major U.S. company exercise his right of free speech at Harvard. Thanking Harvard for allowing free speech is like thanking the University for supplying heat in the dorm rooms; both are fundamental, basic rights which no one can deny...
Whichever it is, it points to the same inescapable conclusion: regardless of leaders' intentions, some basic features of the Soviet system remain, like repression...
...many Bay State lawmakers said that the governor's proposal will be substantially revised as many legislators oppose the increased size of the budget. In addition the budget may also run into the opposition of those legislators who feel he hasn't placed enough emphasis on basic social problem...