Sentences with phrase «take over textbooks»

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

If the council and the county Legislature approve the change, the county would take over most of the administration of the city's purchasing department, filling out purchase orders for everything from paper clips to textbooks to firetrucks.

«The story told in most textbooks and museums is that as grasslands gradually took over from forests, horses got bigger, and they reduced their toes to a single digit,» said first author Brianna McHorse, a Ph.D. student working in the labs of Assistant Professor Stephanie Pierce and Professor Andrew Biewener in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

While it took over two weeks to even hear back from the commercial publisher, I was informed a day later by CK12 that the modifications to their life sciences textbooks had already been made.

Students sat in rows, their heads bowed over thick textbooks, and took turns reading out loud.

Project Veritas journalists sat down with America's top textbook publishing companies, the moneymakers of Common Core, in an effort to expose how crony capitalism is taking over America's educational system.

So we're looking to take kids further away from worksheets and just sitting down and reading a textbook, and much more into experiential, project based learning so they can really get a sense of how things work and those things will translate over into the test scores.

Over 5.1 million students come into the bookstore each semester to purchase textbooks and digital devices to read e-books and take notes.

Amazon has ironed out an agreement with the University of Massachusetts to take over the schools textbook business from Follett.

Digital publishers are keeping a watchful eye on how the market may shift once digital textbooks take over.

When looking at these screens, you got the impression that if tablets were to increase the resolution to over 4,000 pixels, it would take image editing and digital textbooks to a new level.

I poured over my textbooks and journals after clinic hours, took frequent continuing education classes, and even took courses in advanced orthopedic surgery and dental techniques.

The sum total of nontrivial knowledge in mathematics and science is essentially found in the reputable professional literature, which is that literature of the reputable professional monographs, textbooks, and refereed or peer - reviewed journals taken in its ongoing aggregate, this essentially being the only thing humanity has to keep the cranks from taking over the world.

I have taken new textbooks over 200 pages long and gone to Office Depot and had them slice the binder off ($ 2) and I scanned the whole book both sides at once in a very short time.

Savvy students all over the country are reselling their college textbooks on sites like Amazon.com, or taking advantage of buyback programs from retailers such as Barnes & Noble, or textbook exclusive book vendors such as TextbookRush or eCampus.com.

The company is taking a page (or two) straight out of Apple's innovation and customer service textbook: use technology to make the user experience a pleasure and obsess over delivering a positive experience.