Sentences with phrase «author making the grade»

It's good to hear the experiences of an indie author making the grade.

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Editor's note: In their original submission, the authors made reference to poligeenan, a highly inflammatory and carcinogenic substance, being present in all food - grade carrageenan.

Unfortunately, the standard tools for assessing risk of metastasis — such as the size of the tumor, its grade, the presence of estrogen receptors and the proportion of dividing cells — are «insufficient,» note the authors, «for clinical decision making.»

De Palma, producer Martin Bregman, and actors Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, and Angel Salazar all participate, as do Julie Salamon (author of The Devil's Candy, the book - length making - of devoted to De Palma's ill - fated The Bonfire of the Vanities), Ken Tucker, Keith Gordon (star of De Palma's Dressed to Kill), Antoine Fuqua, and Eli Roth, who surprises no one with his claim that he saw Scarface 56 times in seventh grade.

These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading worGrading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading worgrading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.

It is important to note that the authors did not themselves make explicit what «progress» means in this context, or how, in the minds of parents, receiving information on a child's progress is distinguished — if at all — from merely receiving updated marks and grades.

The author's fifth - grade students practiced a variety of skills in order to make 25 - minute verbal and visual presentations on their inquiry - based projects.

Because the Promise had a clearer effect on behavior than on grades for KPS students overall, the authors conclude that «policies focused on making higher education more affordable may be usefully supplemented by helping students better understand how their behavior affects their future.»

Rick Wormeli on the Fallacy of the «Zero» Grade Education consultant and author Rick Wormeli discusses the fallacy of assigning a grade of zero to students, arguing that a minimum grade of 50 or 60 carries the same message — without making it mathematically impossible for students to bounce back.

Sterrett earned his B.S. in Middle Grades Education from Asbury College (Kentucky) and his Ph.D. in Educational Administration & Supervision from the University of Virginia, and he is the author of the ASCD books Insights Into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works and Short on Time: How do I make time to lead and learn as a principal?

In his article Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities, author Nicolás Pino - James, PhD lists five ways teachers can encourage student engagement: making learning activities meaningful, fostering a sense of competence, supporting autonomy, collaborative learning, positive teacher - student relationships, and mastery orientations (positioning learning as steps towards reaching a goal of learning, rather than simply seeking a reward such as a grade or approval from parents or peers).

Dr. Elias's other books include Social Decision Making Skills: A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Grades (Author), Problem Solving / Decision Making for Social and Academic Success: A School - Based Approach (National Education Association Professional Library), Building Social Problem Solving Skills: Guidelines from a School - Based Program (Jossey - Bass), Social Decision Making and Life Skills Development: Guidelines for Middle School Educators (Aspen), Promoting Student Success Through Group Intervention (Haworth), and Social Problem Solving Interventions in the Schools (Guilford).

Join authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Stefani Arzonetti Hite for an examination of what makes great teachers great, and see how educators at all grade levels and all levels of experience are taking intentional steps toward enhanced professional practice.

The authors assess how different covariates contribute to improving the statistical power of a randomization design and examine differences between math and reading tests; differences between test types (curriculum - referenced tests versus norm - referenced tests); and differences between elementary school and secondary school, to see if the test subject, test type, or grade level makes a large difference in the crucial design parameters.

The author concludes that such practices as grade inflation and grade nonequivalence make it difficult for college admissions officers to make a valid assessment of a student's achievement in comparison with other applicants.

The analysis focuses on the ELA components of the standards, but what it says about the assumptions driving them and how they were constructed is important: «The blanket condemnation made by the CCSS authors that school reading texts have «trended downward over the last half century» is inaccurate» — particularly so, the authors of the study found, in the K - 3 grades.

The debut author discusses STEM, mental health, and representation in middle - grade fiction, while making some truly terrific puns.

A truly sound full - service provider will be honest with their authors, and if they're shown a manuscript that really does not make the grade, they'll say so, and then go on to help them improve it.

Authors whose books don't make the grade may wonder how this could possibly be helpful for them.

While outlets like CreateSpace function to list a professional - grade print copy on Amazon's retail website, others like the addition of print services from Nook Press simply make print - on - demand copies available for the author to purchase.

Worried about not pleasing a teacher from long ago, these authors are trying to make the grade by making each chapter about a term paper's length.

The literary blogosphere is buzzing this morning with the news that Time is featuring an author on their cover for the first time in 10 years (Stephen King made the grade in 2000).

Bestselling author Suzanne Collins first made her mark in children's literature with the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle grade readers.

For Sarah Renee, 14 - year - old author of three young adult / middle grade novels, her attempts at publishing were met with less than an enthusiastic response due to the fact that her status as a minor made the legal ramifications of publishing a higher hurdle to overcome than most authors face.

At times, it almost felt like the author was determined to make sure no one confused her story of Pagford and its sad emergency town council election with the Harry Potter series for middle grade and young adult readers.

One of the aspects of the series that makes it unique is that the books are written by various middle grade and young adult authors, writers whose works are already popular bestseller titles for their audience.

Maybe for the low - grade, mediocre mid-list crowd indy publishing is a step up since they were never going to make a big splash in the physical publishing world anyway («big» fish in a little pond), but if you are on either end of the author spectrum; newbie with no name or a big time success, traditional publishing is the way to go.

In fact, China was the first country to make an offer for The Way Past Winter, the third title from our bestselling middle - grade author Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

Motivated in large part by the recent striking down of reverse discrimination laws and practices in the California and the consequent reduction in the numbers of Black and Hispanic law students in that state, as well as a sense that although the LSAT predicts law school grades well it doesn't predict success as a lawyer, the authors devised their own test of who should be admitted based on whether they would make good lawyers.