Word: preps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Teaching in more than one class at one time is an enormous time commitment," says Lauterbach. "One should spend 10 hours of prep time for every hour in section, but in reality for me, it is more like 15 to 20 hours of prep...
...focused so intensely on Maverick Media in its investigation of the pinched Bush debate-prep materials? At first it was because Maverick's owner, Mark McKinnon, is a former Democrat who serves as Governor Bush's top media adviser. Also because Yvette lozano, the Maverick employee who was captured by a post-office surveillance camera mailing a package on the same day the videotape and briefing book were mailed, is also a former Democrat. But Bush aides believe the real reason FBI investigators have continued to focus on McKinnon, Lozano and the production house is because the briefing book that...
...assistant did so and returned the list to McKinnon, who placed it back in his debate book, which sat on a shelf in his office. Inconspicuous, the hundred or so pages were not marked in a way that hinted at the contents. Maverick kept the debate-prep video, a copy of which was included in the package to Downey, in the "tape room." "Sometimes that room's locked, sometimes it's not," says a Bush source...
...Agenda, a full 82% agreed that states have been "careful and reasonable" in implementing new standards. Only 11 percent said their kids are taking too many standardized exams, 12 percent felt these tests unfairly difficult and 18 percent said schools are neglecting "real learning" in favor of rote test prep. The enthusiasm echoes a survey released last month by The Business Roundtable which found that 73 percent of parents favored statewide reading and math exams to determine which kids should be promoted from fourth to fifth grades; 65 percent supported high school exit exams...
...debate prep rooms at the gymnasium were identical, down to the volume of sunlight that shone through the windows. Bush and Gore were not allowed to bring any notes with them--the Commission on Presidential Debates supplied pre-approved pencils and papers for them to sketch ideas...