Sentences with phrase «for academic textbooks»

This is useful for academic textbooks, bookclubs and a myriad of other practical uses.

For example, tutorials for an academic textbook can be «live inside the book.»

Not exact matches

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

Most school breakfast programs were created to assist low - income families, but many school officials now view a nutritious breakfast as an academic tool for all students, as valuable to learning as computers and textbooks.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

However, science editors do work on the full range of academic titles, from undergraduate textbooks to research - level books and popular science, so there is plenty of room for creativity.

Prof. Patrinos has more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.

There was a time when social learning was more of an academic theory reserved for massive textbooks, peer - reviewed journals, and the halls of university psychology departments.

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

The district found that the majority of teachers still used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.

At those same conferences, senior editors look for up - and - coming academics and influential educational consultants to sign as «authors» of the textbooks that the worker bees are already putting together back at the shop.

There was a time when social learning was more of an academic theory reserved for massive textbooks, peer - reviewed journals, and...

These alternative certification systems are likely to provide alternative means for many individuals to demonstrate and be valued for their skills without a need to attend academic courses, to pay expensive tuition fees, to purchase new textbooks, and to pay for exam / certification costs.

And damn sure they never read about it in whatever passes for textbooks in most graduate schools of education, that lame crap masquerading as academic rigor in the diploma mills serving the education profession these days.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

The board determines what textbooks will be used, academic standards for each subject, accountability standards for schools, and curriculum frameworks.

In what may be an important step to making some new instructional materials available during a purchasing freeze, a recently amended bill would allow districts to buy new textbooks for schools scoring in the lowest three deciles of the Academic Performance Index.

Discovery Education, is the global leader in standards - based digital content for K - 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development and the largest professional learning community of its kind that empowers educators and increases students» academic achievement.

Students are working with dilapidated textbooks and teachers are dipping into their own pockets to provide students with the educational materials that are necessary for their academic success.

Being a part of the Beyond Textbooks team is an exciting opportunity to engage and collaborate with teachers on one common goal, academic success for all students.

His interests include teacher mobility and teacher pensions, and education reforms, such as the effects of textbook funding on academic achievement for low - performing schools in California.

Many of these schools lack textbooks and basic academic and counseling supports for students.

The goal of this schoolwide effort is to ensure that all students can read and learn from academic text, including content area textbooks and literature, and that they will be motivated to engage in reading for many different purposes.

Beyond Textbooks has helped Vail lead Arizona districts in academic performance for five years.

The alignment of textbooks and instructional materials with the state's academic standards provides a foundation for student success.

I believe the solution will lie in governments (especially in India) deciding to subsidise e-books for education and converting all the academic material (textbooks mainly) into e-books.

This is tremendously useful for schools that are pushing out digital textbook apps or academic titles from the iBookstore.

The core of academic publishing is in textbooks, monographs (detailed written studies, either long or short, of a specific subject) and books intended for an audience mainly outside academia.

I'm waiting since years for a better PDF e-ink reader, for academic papers (multicolumn, complex graphs, tables and equations), textbooks, magazines etc..

Now, B&N is combining its retail academic strength with its dedication to digital by announcing the pending development of Yuzu for college textbooks.

From there you can take advantage of built - in style templates that prepare your publication for your target audience: no matter whether you are creating a sci - fi novel, textbook, or academic journal.

I get to go back to doing that (which is awesome), and over this next few months, I will be writing an academic textbook on YA literature for library school students.

Basically, print is used predominantly for textbook, academic, children's books, and business book purposes.

Rather than requiring students to pay for a textbook that contains only a few chapters of relevant information, members of the academic community are writing their own textbooks and self - publishing them.

Non-trade e-books include electronic versions of children's picture books and academic textbooks, reference materials, and other specialized texts that typically are published by separate imprints from trade books, often are sold through separate channels, and are not reasonably substitutable for trade e-books.

the usefulness for students and academics in middle and high income countries is clear... but this would be an amzingly useful product for humanitarian and development organizations with active field work is unparlleled; not to mention for students in places where electricity is scarce or inconsistent and textbooks are inexistent.

Good e-Reader first profiled digital textbook and software company Kno when it came to light that the business model for the publisher differed substantially from many academic publishers.

In some locations, though, the EBMs that are in use are doing quite well, especially for niche markets like specific textbook or academic titles, out of print titles, and for customers who don't want to wait for a book to arrive — again, especially if it's a title that is needed for academic work.

SUNY has partnered with textbook produce Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to... [Read more...]

One point of interest in the on - going discussions of the future of digital textbooks for all academic levels is that the publishers seem to be entirely on board.

SUNY has partnered with textbook produce Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to digitize thousands of SUNY press titles.This collaboration means Kno now works with some of the largest university presses, including Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, SUNY Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Mississippi, University of Virginia Darden Business Publishing, and Yale University Press.

While School Yourself does see the place for its texts in the widespread adoption of textbooks in academic environments, currently the most common feedback comes from individual consumers who bought their hands - on books series in order to supplement their own school materials.

But one publishing arena that has had some success with subscription models for digital editions is the academic publishing sphere, specifically for digital textbooks.

While some sectors of the education industry are still waiting for the explosion of digital textbooks that can provide budget - friendly solutions with immediate updates to new information, e-textbook providers are already making improvements to the design concept of an academic ebook.

The textbook proposal is the vehicle for that information, to assure the idea of the book is sound, that it has potential to find a profitable place in the academic book marketplace.

Academic Books, Including School Books and Textbooks - Books that grade school and high school students use for classroom learning or that college students are required to read for their coursework are not trade books.

First of all, the app that allows authors to create their own interactive books for the Apple platform, aptly named iBooks Author, was initially billed as a tool for creating interactive academic textbooks, leading a lot of non-academic authors to dismiss it.

There's a second and equally important reason to doubt a 25 % e-book penetration number: The other 75 % of those titles includes textbooks, academic books, cookbooks, children's books, and all the many categories that are relatively safe from digitization (for now).

Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German Publishers» Association and GfK Panel Services called «Breakthrough in the Book Market?

By Publishing Perspectives staff Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German...