51.   After a hospital stay, he arrived at TIRR to relearn basic skills.

52.   Across the nation, education research, money and time has been spent on preschool, primary grades and basic skills, Harvard researcher Gary Orfield said.

53.   Bridge is a mentoring and tutoring program aimed at black students who need to upgrade basic skills.

54.   Brennan knows a lot about teaching basic skills.

55.   But many entry-level workers not only lack basic skills initially but often they can neither read nor write.

56.   But professional mathematicians say the activists have set up a false dichotomy between conceptual understanding and basic skills.

57.   But she said that for other schools, promoting and holding students back do not address the problem of how to insure they acquire basic skills.

58.   But Texas teachers do not want to be evaluated based on the standardized basic skills test used by the state to measure minimal student achievement.

59.   But the Coordinating Board report is being touted by some as proof positive that public schools are failing to teach basic skills.

60.   But to hear just about everyone but teachers, parents, and bright students, those basic skills are everything.