101.   Instead, seminar leaders urged future school-board candidates to stick with secular issues like academic standards, school choice and educational overhaul.

102.   Is all this an unintended consequence of raising academic standards?

103.   Instead, the education debate at the federal level between the Clinton administration and Congress has focused primarily on national academic standards and tax credits for parents.

104.   It has high academic standards, but many of its students need remedial work to achieve them.

105.   It was for its academic standards.

106.   It wants to set universal academic standards, and then decide how much they should cost.

107.   Keegan and her former colleagues at the Capitol created statewide academic standards and testing in elementary and high schools.

108.   Just as tragically, children who could have excelled under more demanding academic standards also were hurt.

109.   Like most education officials, Carlin talks often of raising academic standards and upgrading the caliber of students admitted to state colleges.

110.   McGreevey talks about improving school academic standards, urges full-day kindergarten and stresses pocketbook issues like car insurance that polls show women care about.