Sentences with phrase «in school book»

That drop was due to a contraction in the school book market for kindergarten through high school; fallout from the 2008 recession continues to affect state and local school budgets.

In School Book Clubs, higher engagement levels of both teachers and parents, evidenced by a higher number of orders, drove a $ 10.0 million, or 17 %, increase in revenues to $ 70.2 million, compared to $ 60.2 million in the prior year period.

Parents at Northwood Elementary get involved in school academics by participating in a school book club that promotes fun and a love of reading.

In her school books, there are lots of different kinds of friends and families.»

manipulated historical reasons argued as this one has been included in school books for years, paving the way to a new generation of catalan - speakers that feels more catalonian than spanish

Since I was always very skeptical to everything in my school books, and felt that this can not be the full truth, I was also mostly skeptical to scientists.

In addition, he is the Acting Editor of the Practical Interventions in Schools book series for Guilford Press.

Not exact matches

«School libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family ReadingSchool libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Readingschool librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Reading blog.

A school librarian in Boston rejected a box of Dr. Seuss books sent from First Lady Melania Trump, saying the choice of literature was «cliche» and her school was not in need of them.

She has demonstrated this in both actions and words since her husband took office, and sending books to schools across the country is but one example,» her spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to Fortune.

Lazaridis may have been applying the lessons of a book called The Innovator's Dilemma, published in 1997 by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

The business world can be brutal I don't care what you learned in school, you'll come across so many situations you can't learn in a text book written in 1985 (Not a fan of college, can you tell:)-RRB- Be prepared to work 7 days a week.

I don't have a lot of time in between my business and school to pick up and read physical books.

While the business of booking trips through a traditional agency will likely never return to pre-internet levels, there is a growing understanding among travelers that calling an old - school agent could be worthwhile in certain cases.

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

Under the Post 9/11 GI Bill, any veteran who has served for three years after September 11 is eligible for full tuition reimbursement, in addition to a book and living stipend to attend school.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturIn the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturin the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

The books I was selling were for parents to help children with subjects in school.

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionIn their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionin Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

When I was a youth in school, I often filled my class notes and homemade, brown - paper - bag book covers with everything from ornate graphic designs to stick figures.

In this episode of the The School of Greatness, Michael talks about his new book, which is all about how to steal the show by crafting an incredible speech.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker ScholaIn my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholain 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

A math whiz from an early age, in high school he interned at O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technical books which also produces geeky events like Foo Camp and Strata.

In his new book Leading the Life You Want, Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritual).

The business strategy that Mathile details in the book is also taught at Aileron, the nonprofit school for entrepreneurs that he founded in 1996.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

In the book you write about going to Hawaii after school and being a salesman — and not a great negotiator.

Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind for their 2016 book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?

And in his essential book Give and Take, Wharton School professor Adam Grant shows that people like Swift who are inclusive and giving end up being more prosperous than those who are what Grant calls «takers.»

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

His book also cites architecture projects around the world that have leverage design positive social impact, from a primary school in Guangdong, China to a social justice center at Kalamazoo College.

With 600 seats and hundreds of thousands of databases, books and periodicals, the school also has the largest bilingual business library in the country.

Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has created a program that can write a non-fiction book in 20 minutes.

Founded in 2012, Franklin Media takes in surplus books from schools, publishers, and bookstores and resells them.

The book is a memoir about his improbable journey from his working - class, «hillbilly» roots in Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the U.S., and then the world of venture capital.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasIn his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasin years past.

Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

When David DeFazio graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1992, he decided to hit the mountains of Jackson, Wyoming before hitting the books in law school.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

This book reminds me that being naive can be a blessing and to embrace every opportunity following your heart versus what they would tell you to do in business school.»

In the book Negotiation, Adam D. Galinsky of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and Roderick I. Swaab of INSEAD in France write: «In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offeIn the book Negotiation, Adam D. Galinsky of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and Roderick I. Swaab of INSEAD in France write: «In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offein France write: «In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offeIn our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offer.

In an interview in his heavily book - filled office at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, where he worked after his stint as treasury secretary, Paulson discussed the reasons he chose Blankfein to succeed hiIn an interview in his heavily book - filled office at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, where he worked after his stint as treasury secretary, Paulson discussed the reasons he chose Blankfein to succeed hiin his heavily book - filled office at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, where he worked after his stint as treasury secretary, Paulson discussed the reasons he chose Blankfein to succeed hiin Washington, where he worked after his stint as treasury secretary, Paulson discussed the reasons he chose Blankfein to succeed him.

As Harvard Business School lecturers John Neffinger and Matthew Kohutobserve observe in their book, «Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential,» when a discussion becomes an argument, it's no longer an exercise in logic and reasoning.

In his book Old School, Tobias Wolf's semi-autobiographical character takes the time to type out quotes and passages from great books.

Princeton University received nearly $ 300 million worth of rare books and manuscripts, marking the largest donation in the school's history.