Sentences with phrase «of schoolbook»

Horizontal lines in pencil make them look torn out of a schoolbook.

The New Yorker of Jan. 16 contains a long and detailed account of two renowned court cases that resulted from the wave of schoolbook banning that began in the 1970's.

And while Elliot's scientific method comes in handy, ultimately, the pretense of schoolbook science is deflated by developments outside the boundary of accepted laws and theory.

In his review of Diane Ravitch's The Language Police «Sensitivity Training,» Nathan Glazer wonders whether the efforts of both the Right and the Left to promote their values through the censoring of schoolbooks are presenting an unrealistic picture of America to students.

But with her stuffed backpack, piles of schoolbooks and a perpetually lengthy to - do list that includes homework, soccer practice, trumpet lessons and math tutoring, she's as overscheduled as most American kids.

Apple has a big opportunity to lower the cost of schoolbooks and educational material if done correctly.

Not exact matches

For then we observed that the horror was in a process of retreating to the back of people's consciousness, of becoming sanitized, of being adapted to fit schoolbooks.

And on top of that, you'll have to pay attorneys upwards of $ 300 per hour (times 2); there's the move — one or both of you will have to find new living quarters; and then there's the impact on the kids — the physical aspect of going back and forth between homes schlepping clothes and belongings, the mental burden of having to track where uniforms and schoolbooks are, and the emotional loss of a home base and intact family unit.

She immediately recognised the commercial potential of grown - up versions of those same stickers that continue to emblazon schoolbooks the world over.

He finds Daniel Arlington Williams III (Michael Douglas, in one of his earliest film roles), a political science major who is looking for temporary work to pay for schoolbooks.

The California Open Source Textbook Project is one of a handful of initiatives that aim to produce schoolbooks for just the cost of printing.

Students can also travel to Diagon Alley to purchase items on their list, such as schoolbooks and a pet, which consists of owl, cat or a toad.

A 2012 analysis by WNYC's Schoolbook showed that 13 % of students citywide leave their school each year, a figure that rises to 21 % in central Harlem.

As the largest schoolbook manufacturer based in the United States McGraw - Hill is in the position to lead to widespread adoption of curriculum to counter racist narratives that erase our contribution and encourage inferiority.

One of the most important things that education coverage can do is to challenge conventional wisdom, as this WNYC / Schoolbook story did.

«If we look at sectors in the market,» Shah says, «60 percent of the market is in schoolbooks.

They are one of the largest schoolbook and textbook companies and provides solutions for primary and high schools, as well as digital content for the educational market, such as distance learning, cooperative learning and library subscription services.

Oyeyemi fluently incorporates Nigerian iconography and mythology into the plot and explains Jess» bizarre behavior (which includes cutting out pictures of twins from schoolbooks) as a meeting of the real and the surreal.

It was a time when kids carried dime novels folded in their hip pockets or nestled out - of - sight in their schoolbooks.

a large selection of books that otherwise don't translate well into eContent: especially cookbooks, travel guides, how - to books, schoolbooks, and children's stories.

Private publishers could be shut out of Romania's schoolbook market in a new law that would name a single textbook publisher for the country.

When I was older I looked back at the covers on my old schoolbooks and my drawings were never really that great, but because of my Mum's encouragement I never stopped producing art, and I still do today!

Children's schoolbooks left open in a classroom, trees entangled in a rusting ferris wheel, hulks of ships high and dry, miles from any water — seeing photographs like these we're bound to wonder: what happened here?

I have all of his, oh, schoolbooks [notebooks] with these fabulous drawings of steel engineering bridges...

He grew up in French Guiana, where he recalls seeing the image of Queen Elizabeth on his schoolbooks every day.

He uses text, language, and imagery from a wide range of popular culture sources, from stand - up comedy routines and children's coloring and schoolbooks, to slave narratives and the literary works of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein.

Born in 1912 in the town of Ehden in the mountains of Northern Lebanon, Douaihy spent much of his early childhood copying pictures from his schoolbooks.

Some of his friends saw his version of George Washington crossing the Delaware, based on the image familiar from schoolbooks, as a kind of insulting parody.

Although there is nothing schoolbook about this year's El Niño [it is mixed up with weak waves and remnants of La Niña, see North Pacific]-- probably the only region (globally) that may face classical consequences (not Peru, not the US and — our misjudgement — probably also not Indonesia) is Australia, including New Zealand.

However, these claims are out there in the media, they show up in new children's schoolbooks, they are used to encourage immediate action from policy makers, they have influenced Nobel committees and are being used to force many of the world's economies to accept higher cost energy sources.

This kind of writing isn't fit for schoolbooks, let alone a peer - reviewed tome of international, interdisciplinary authorship.

Try using one of these fonts, which are standard on most systems: Arial, Garamond, Goudy, Book Antiqua, Century Schoolbook, Palatino, or Verdana.

A combination of cubbies, baskets, hooks, bench seating and pullout drawers create the perfect combination of storage to organize everything from scarves to schoolbooks.

We hung more shelves above — used the lowest of those for school supplies (attractively contained), the next for schoolbooks, and the rest for decorative storage items!