Sentences with phrase «more use of textbooks»

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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.

Barely more than one third said it was false that the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards (it does not), just 15 percent said it was false that the federal government will receive detailed data on the test performance of individual students in participating states (it will not), and fewer than half said it was true that states and local school districts can decide which textbooks to use under Common Core (they can).

Under existing ESAs, the state deposits funds into private, restricted - use bank accounts that parents of eligible students can use for a wide variety of educational purposes, including private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, online courses, educational therapies, and more.

The school uses few textbooks because classes move too quickly — «No textbook is going to fit the bill for more than two weeks,» she said — and because students prefer the variety of perspectives that come from reading original sources.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.

By using an assortment of relevant and easily accessible resources such as digital publications, news sites, and online videos, your students are going to be far more engaged than if they had to refer to an outdated textbook.

ESAs are flexible spending accounts that parents can use to purchase a wide variety of educational goods and services, including private school tuition, tutors, textbooks, homeschool curricula, online courses, educational therapy, and more.

Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more.

Responding to Whitehurst and Chingos» call for more research on textbook efficacy, we have recently undertaken a project [vii] using data from California to investigate the impact of textbooks on student achievement.

The first is that the SARCs are only available in PDF form for more than 80 percent of the schools in the state (while there is a standard template, this is only used in approximately 20 percent of schools; thus, schools in different districts have different SARC formats with textbook information on different pages).

The use of OER encourages collaboration among educators and is often more cost effective than traditional textbooks,» said Brad C. Smith, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Utah.

Among the changes sought: a redesign of the teacher and principal evaluation system, and acquisition of more digital textbooks so that teachers can use more modern teaching strategies.

Posted on September 30, 2014 · The Texas Board of Education is considering more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for approval for use in public schools statewide.

Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used high school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.

Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now consistently 20 % or more above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most grade levels.

Through the use of textbook and document - based primary and secondary source readings, interactive activities, historical fiction, videos, and research projects, the students develop a rich understanding of the varying cultures while becoming more adept at critical thinking and analysis, note taking, research, essay writing, class discussion, and both independent and collaborative study skills.

The fundamental issues remain similar (e.g., teachers or textbooks as drivers of the curriculum, student challenges when using text in courses, cost of books); however, the advent of new technologies, like electronic text (e-text) and reading devices (e-readers) have added more complexity to the discussion.

Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur.

Provide practical experience in use of digital textbooks by teachers in curricular deliberations to more effectively design instructional opportunities.

The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.

Scholarship recipients should be able to use the funds for a wide range of education - related expenses, including tuition, tutoring, textbooks, educational materials, homeschooling curricula, online courses, and more.

When the authors of the AERA study analyzed the literature used by Common Core writers to justify the need for more complex texts, what they found was: «a tight and closed loop of researchers citing one another and leading... to an artificially heightened sense of scholarly agreement about a decline in textbook complexity.»

I can understand more the textbook vendors being scared of being put out of business (especially with the prices they charge) but for «normal» scholarly books that may be used a few times with the glut of information scholars have.

The survey also reveals that Education and Library & Information Science students, representing 49 % of the total respondents, used printed textbooks more than other majors, including Business and Science.

Their study and review of other sources over the past many years find that students might perceive they do better when they use a digital textbook, but the... [Read more...]

well in my part, experience isn't the best way of learning, though its effective but still some have many experiences but it still took them to repeatedly do the same thing to learn, just like in using the best gadget won't mean you'd be learning more, learning is not just about experience but it's about how a person comprehend things out, also it's contents matter, textbooks is helpful, specially the digital ones, it helps workers become more efficient in his or her workplace and get more relevant information.

Those students who continue their educations and progress to the higher levels of their specific programs will still use more specialized textbooks for their fields of study.

Students can check in frequently with each Kno textbook they use to see the time spent reading, the notes they've taken, the flashcards they've mastered, which really helps them monitor their progress and have more insight into their learning behavior and how they're studying,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and co-founder of Kno, in an interview with GoodeReader.

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education... [Read more...]

One nice aspect of tablets though is the ability to use them for textbooks thanks to applications like Amazon's Kindle and textbook rentals which may make them a bit more beneficial.

Do not rewrite the parts of textbooks — paraphrase them, use quotation for more interesting phrase.

With more e-readers hitting the U.S. market, analysts predict a big uptick in device sales in late 2010 with a strong surge in the popularity of electronic textbooks used in high schools and colleges in time for school in the fall of 2011.

How fast and large the e-textbook market grows depend on a diverse array of more than 20 textbook publishers in the U.S., many of whom are weighing the use of proprietary or standard e-publishing technology and evaluating whether students will rely on e-readers to purchase expensive textbooks and other books, analysts said.

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As College developed its textbook rental business, comparable store sales reflected the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fees received to provide a more representative comparable store sales figure.

In 2012, more than 37 percent of students specified they had used a tablet to read digital textbooks, up from 26 percent in 2011.

Most campus bookstores also sell used textbooks for a discounted price although online shopping will most likely save you much more due to the abundance of options.

But it's Sleep No More's almost textbook use of environmental storytelling techniques that's really intriguing.

A member of the scientific advisory board of 21st Century, he is the author of more than 100 articles and several books, including the most widely used textbook on the natural sciences.

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

Most popular textbooks used for core classes will be listed; although, now that I am in my second year of law school I find that there are fewer books available in the database for more advanced classes.

The textbook publishers, who have long dominated the education content industry, benefit from that model (my colleague Laura Hazard Owen provides a nice snapshot of that market here), but Fletcher said more states need to encourage the development of content marketplaces by giving schools and school districts the flexibility to select the content their students will use.

Textbooks will be a large part of their time at uni, so use them as a form of decoration to help make the room look more sophisticated and inviting.