Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestions for the transitional living center must provide the homeless family with temporary shelter, a counselor to help find more permanent housing, employment counseling, medical care and a variety of basic educational and social work needs...
Good Grades, Basic Flaw...
Doolittle says that Harvard students are intelligent, but far too diligent. "There are depressingly few poor attitudes here. If I were the admissions office, I would make sure that some people had poor attitudes. Good grades in high school can be a possible indication of a basic flaw," he explains...
...Basic education is also crucial, but with so many of America's inner-city schools in disarray, outside programs are often the key to childrens' academic success. "It's a vicious cycle," says Babette Edwards of the Harlem Tutorial and Referral Project. "Low standards, the lack of a rigorous, challenging curriculum is detrimental to kids." Her organization stresses basic reading and writing skills in individual and small-group after-school sessions...
...basic American justification for sanctions can be seen in Archbishop Tutu's statement that there is no guarantee that sanctions will work, it is merely the last peaceful option. Is this possibility enough to allow the West to incur further hardship on an already oppressed populace? This must be a personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...