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Education reform
* is more than setting high academic standards and administering a test to students
  - thus a question of liberty and self-government
* land where standards have been popping up like dandelions in spring.
* means high standards, for students, for schools and for teachers.
* requires teachers to embrace new roles and methods of teaching
  - that educators provide quality schooling for all of their students

Land reform
* can increase both employment and income.
* is an empowerment process for our people

Systemic reform
* broad and often ambiguous concept.
* is about creating teaching and learning environments that can change whole systems.

Tort reform
* attempts to deal with real or perceived excess.
* is about a dramatic increase in the cost of doing business
  - the agenda of big corporations and insurance companies
* means making it harder for consumers to sue large corporations.

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Welfare reform
* affects people with mental, addictive disorders.
* begins by trying to keep people off the rolls.
* big give-away to the poor.
* continues to assist clients in entering the workforce and becoming self-sufficient.
* focuses on moving single mothers into paid employment.
* has significant implications for children and families and for child care
  - to address societal structures that keep people in poverty
* is about helping people to help themselves
  - an economic issue, as well as a social issue
  - designed to help families move from welfare to work
* is supposed to be about moving people into jobs
  - working to earn one's own living
* major social experiment with laudable goals.
* plays a central role in American women's economic future.
* subject that is rife with experts.

Reformation
* are improvement
  - religious movement
* is improvement
  - the recovery of biblical truth that leads to the purifying of one's theology

Remediation
* helps the brain develop so that the necessary skills can be obtained.
* is the act of cleaning a site of contaminants
  - stage during which changes to systems are actually made
* process to remove contaminants such as gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil from soil.
* tool to assist students in becoming more academically successful.

### action | improvement | renovation:

Home renovation
* are a frequent cause of lead poisoning in children.
* can produce a lot of waste and greenhouse gas.

Repair
* are conditions
  - the process by which lost or destroyed cells are replaced by new, living cells
* occurs when new, normal bone replaces dead bone.
* often requires regrowth of axons, even in our brain.
* refers to the ability to revise a plan or to establish alternatives.
* ubiquitous feature of human life.

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Reconstruction
* are interpretations
  - recalls
  - repairs
* is undoubtedly one of the most important periods in the history of the United States.

### action | improvement | repair | reconstruction:

Breast reconstruction
* Most breast reconstruction involves a series of procedures over time
  - of procedures that occur over time
* can take place whenever the woman feels comfortable undergoing the operation.
* following or during mastectomy can help restore a normal appearance.
* functional procedure to restore a woman's normal body shape.
* improves the lives of many women who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
* is possible in most cases after mastectomy
  - usually available to women who have had a breast removed
* matter of choice that needs much thought and consideration.
* personalized procedure.
* recreates the breast shape after the natural breast has been removed.
* restores balance, beauty and harmony to the female form.

Phylogenetic reconstruction
* later idea in biology.
* reveal multiple origins of asexual clones from sexual populations.