One is a fascination with what Common Core advocates called close reading.
What Common Core advocates with their commitment to the aligned assessments leave out is any explanation of why some U.S. students and school districts, but not others, trail students in other countries on these tests.
Some core advocates go so far as to proclaim that the cell-based conception of the species tree would be valuable even if it were incongruent with every single constructed gene tree (e.g., [ 68]).
Shimer also got a boost in the early 1990s, when Lynne Cheney, then chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a core-curriculum advocate, helped the college win a sizable grant.
In 1991, Shimer received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities with the help of NEH chair and core-curriculum advocate Lynne Cheney; the grant revitalized the school's fundraising, helping it raise $2 million.
Only after Michelle Obama felt her children were settled into some sense of normalcy in the White House, did she take on causes, choosing two that related to her core values, advocating specific actions in both.
At its core, UNICEF advocates for the rights that all children and adolescents have to survive and develop, to learn, to play and practise sports, to grow up without violence, to be protected from HIV/AIDS and to be a top priority in public policies.
The Supreme Court decision upholding the school voucher program in Cleveland has generated a burst of hyperbole among hard-core voucher advocates, the most ideological of whom view the ruling as the first step toward dismantling public education as we know it today.
By organizing one of President Bush's core constituencies to advocate for Israel, the group's leaders say they hope to command the attention of the White House when Israel's vital interests are at stake.
Our subsequent steps followed the Medical Research Council's (MRC) framework, which advocates core phases in the development of health services interventions: preclinical, theoretical, modelling, exploratory trial, definitive trial and long-term implementation [ 17].
