Sentences with phrase «grade school textbooks»

Welp, it's Columbus Day, and while your grade school textbook probably filled you in on the basics (he sailed across the Atlantic ocean blue in 1492 to «discover» the «New World,» etc.), there were also a few, uhm, less - than - pleasant outcomes to his journeys around the Americas — namely slavery, genocide, widespread disease, and generally tyrannical behavior.

By the way, they've turned his book into a grade school textbook.)

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A now discredited «secularization theory» (still to be found in textbooks from fifth grade to graduate school) is that, as people became more educated — read «enlightened» — religion would inevitably decline on its way to disappearing.

From discovering the alphabet in the first grade to discovering anatomy, algebra, and U.S. history in the eighth grade, and all the way up through their high school studies, Waldorf students take part in the learning process by creating their own textbooks — beautifully - drawn journals containing stories, essays, poems, maps, illustrations, lab descriptions, and math equations.

Subsequently, the researchers compared texts from textbooks for different grade levels and school tracks.

Content is taken from elementary school textbooks, two from each grade level between first and fifth.

A survey of primary schools in 11 developing countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Uruguay) shows that, on average, up to 20 % of fourth grade pupils do not have any textbooks or have to share.

It is very mixed ability as I have only one group of students with FFTd grades ranging from F to A in a school where languages are compulsory so it will be up to you to fit in extra practice from textbooks or tailor your feedback to stretch the more able in the mini tasks.

Notwithstanding these errors, however, the difference between the current slew of textbooks and those from the new - math days of the 1960s is definitely worth noting: Accomplished mathematicians wrote many of the texts used in that earlier era, and the math — though misguided and inappropriate for the lower grades and too formal for the high school grades — was at least mathematically correct.

Chall, a longtime Ed School professor, showed how differences in first grade textbooks influence children's reading acquisition.

First, the way in which schools typically procure materials is oriented around the adoption of textbooks aligned to grade - level standards.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

That question is rich with intellectual possibilities, integrating studies in history, culture, and comparative religion, but that richness was absent from my grade - school textbooks.

With trivial exceptions, Washington does not run schools, employ teachers, buy textbooks, write curriculum, hand out diplomas, or decide who gets promoted to 5th grade.

In order to be included in our analysis, several criteria must be met: we must have school characteristics and outcome data available from the school before and after the adoption, the textbook must be identifiable from the SARC, the adoption must be on - cycle (2008 or 2009), the school must be a uniform adopter in the elementary grades under study (1 - 3 for the main analysis, 1 - 5 for the analysis up through fifth grade), and the school must not be in a district that is so large that finding appropriate comparison schools is impossible.

In order to penalize students who intentionally fail to return borrowed textbooks and other school property, the California Assembly recently passed a bill allowing school districts to withhold students» grades, diplomas, or transcripts until they pay for the property.

Using data that has nothing to do with grades, teaching techniques, pedagogical approaches, teacher training, textbook series, administrative style, curriculum evaluation — in short, data that has nothing to do with what goes on inside the school building — Tiemken has been able to predict the proficiency rate for a school.

Imagine a school with no classrooms, bells, or textbooks where students work at their own pace, are not graded, and can decide what to study.

In one study soon to be published in an education policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in the study.

On a recent day at St. Paul School, for example, one group in Minh Gavino's fourth - grade math class worked directly with the teacher, a second group worked independently on laptops and a third group worked together from a textbook.

Students who struggle with reading comprehension in middle school often lack the academic vocabulary the need to understand grade - level textbooks and other instructional materials.

It includes policies about the school year, school day, grading, graduation requirements, home schooling, school library and media center, textbook selection and adoption, field trips, teaching methods, and school ceremonies.

For example, a higher Quantile measure within a specific grade range indicates that a student probably has very few problems with grade - level material (textbooks and assignments) in school.

In the past, the middle school, grades 6 - 8, had a traditional approach, with an emphasis on mastering material from textbooks and preparing for multiple Regents exams.

Students didn't like the traditional textbook - and - worksheet - centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada's Ottawa Catholic School Board's (OCSB) high schools.

Imagine a school with no classrooms, bells, or textbooks where students work at their own pace, are not graded, and are able to decide what to study.

While the Common Core standards spell out what American school children should learn at each grade level, curriculum and textbook decisions are left to the district.

In a recent announcement, the government announced its plan to digitize school textbooks throughout the country in all grade levels and subjects by 2015, a plan made possible by its broadband speeds in terms of digital downloading and cloud - based storage.

In addition to the grade school souvenirs, I spotted the high school diploma he'd mentioned, my year book, some textbooks, and more importantly, file after file of mimeographed pages from my classes at the police academy.

In a strange turn of events, it is astounding to note that the cost for purchasing and issuing e-readers across the grade levels for individual school systems to use electronic versions of textbooks is not anticipated to be any higher than the current costs for accumulating and storing print editions.

One educational arena that has been slow to adopt digital textbooks has been the public school sector for grades K through twelve, partly due to the technology required to utilize the textbooks, but also because of the mandated adoption of specific texts at the school system level, if not the state level.

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FHSST (Free High School Science Texts) is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.

According to California Watch investigative reporter Susanna Rust, a private consultant hired by California school officials in 2009 inserted a new section in the teacher's edition of the 11th - grade Mass Production, Marketing and Consumption in the Roaring Twenties textbook entitled «The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags,» which includes passages lifted verbatim from letters the American Chemistry Council sent during the public comment phase of the curriculum's drafting.