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icy recommendation which he called "The Basic Academic Competencies."
The president’s commission criticized a high school “cafteria-stvle curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main courses." The group urged a return to the basics.
At the time, Estabrook called discussion of the “basics” so much educational jargon unless some consensus was formed as to the meaning of “basic."
In drafting his "Basic Academic Competencies"
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