11.   George W. Bush is the first Republican to try to reach the Oval Office by talking seriously about federal education standards and new prescription drug benefits.

12.   He announced that California was backing his call for states to adopt education standards.

13.   He was also promoting a program to revise education standards, parts of which Democrats strongly oppose.

14.   Health care and education standards are appallingly inadequate, and environmental destruction, especially in the precious Amazon rain forest, remains rampant.

15.   His GSU professors trained him in the new national education standards that emphasize keeping a classroom alive with noisy questions rather than dead with answers from a know-it-all teacher.

16.   In addition to the education standards, the Navy announced a series of initiatives to entice more young people to sign up and stay in once they join.

17.   Iowa was not included in the report because it allows local districts to set education standards.

18.   It is conservative to set high education standards and hold kids to them and it is compassionate to see that not one kid gets left behind.

19.   More blacks than whites are willing to let education standards fall in order to provide equal schools now.

20.   On Friday, the state Board of Education is to review a new set of education standards for all public schools.