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First Lady’s New Program Has Telling Adjectives

March 15, 2005 1 min read
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To the Editor:

It was gratifying to learn that Laura Bush is throwing her weight behind a program for at-risk students (“First Lady Embraces Cause of Youths at Risk,” Feb. 23, 2005); we educators can use all the help we can get. But why am I not surprised that the adjectives used to describe her “program” are “simple” and “inexpensive”?

Edgar H. Schuster

Melrose Park, Pa.

A version of this article appeared in the March 16, 2005 edition of Education Week as First Lady’s New Program Has Telling AdjectivesTo the Editor:

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