Sentences with phrase «over textbooks»

That's of course ignoring the overall utility a device might provide over a textbook.

I poured over my textbooks and journals after clinic hours, took frequent continuing education classes, and even took courses in advanced orthopedic surgery and dental techniques.

Of course it's not really glamorous to spend your time over textbooks, in libraries or in lectures.

Your words «the overall utility a device might provide over a textbook» seem to me a rare, on - topic comment — please, run with that.

If it becomes law, the proposal would make Oklahoma the first state in more than five years to switch control over textbook selection and purchase from the state to the local level, according to Gilbert T. Sewall, the director of the American Textbook Council.

Why pore over a textbook when you can meet your Florida traffic school requirements online?

The practical knowledge and work ethic you'll develop are well worth a few late nights bent over a textbook.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

And highlighting important passages has been shown to be worse than useless, yet my clearest memory of my dutiful pre-med college roommate is her hunched over a textbook, highlighter in hand.

We toil over textbooks and case studies so we can struggle up a corporate career ladder.

A number of ebooks have been purchased over textbooks, Mannix said, and many student assignments and tests have been administered through Chromebooks instead of on paper.

A policy and research think tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, has pooh - poohed the Ministry of Education's response to the brouhaha over the textbook that depicted the human head as a part of the human body used for carrying objects.

In this country, debates over textbooks have been known to shake up a few school board meetings and, in extreme cases, even incite violence.

Government officials in South Korea and China have expressed their anger over textbooks, produced by a group of nationalist historians in Japan, that suggest Japan's military aggression before and during World War II had a positive impact on Southeast Asia.

And many are surprised to find that CINCH Learning can offer substantial savings over textbook and printed supplemental programs.

Even though the new crop of students is the most technologically savvy cohort to ever enter universities, students do not prefer e-books over textbooks regardless of gender, computer use, or comfort with a computer.

You don't need to pore over textbooks for hours; instead, you'll learn through engaging multimedia such as:

Classroom consists of Instruction using Interactive Videos / DVD's, AAA «How to Drive» Textbook and testing over textbook materials.

Assessment is important in driving curriculum, and the evolution of national assessment developed through federal sponsorship will undermine state control over textbooks, curricular stresses, and assessment costs

There were the geeks, bent over their textbooks and laughing at math jokes nobody else even wanted to understand.

Her daughter was hunched over a steaming mug at the kitchen table, poring over a textbook.

Huge majorities got them wrong, mistakenly insisting, for instance, that the federal government mandates the use of the standards and that the Common Core strips away local control over textbooks.