Sentences with word «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.

I prefer Serif fonts for reading: on eink, Georgia — on LCD, Garamond, Bookman or Century Schoolbook in that order.

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

Scott Bassett: The Michigan Attorney General's office uses Century Schoolbook as their standard font, which is probably 25 % larger than Times New Roman.

Leading education publishers like Pearson, the largest, have been providing schoolbooks on the iPad for 3 years.

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.

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.

In both instances this was caused by positive temperature anomalies in the Coral Sea (and elsewhere in the West Pacific)-- schoolbook example of La Niña pattern — which fueled the ITCZ, which is annually set to make landfall over north - eastern Australia somewhere around December.

«The greatest threat to militancy in the long run comes not from drones but from girls with schoolbooks.»

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.

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.

Despite controversy, even Israeli schoolbooks have been changed to acknowledge that Palestinians were in fact forced to leave their villages.

Regardless of schoolbook rules, what it comes down to in the end is usage — conscious usage at first — in order to bring about the general acceptance of truly generic terms (the rules will catch up) and thus bring about the unambiguous recognition of women as included in the considerations of humankind.

While I understand that the LDP must ensure the support of the conservatives at home; to my view that is already covered: schoolbooks portraying World War II in a softer way, the drifting away from pacifism, etc..

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

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.

The film utilizes flashbacks to the Lincoln Continental with the Texas Schoolbook Depository in the background, as well as detailed recreations of The White House, Parkland Hospital, Air Force One, St. Matthew's Cathedral, and of course, the pink Chanel dress.

A book that surveys schoolbooks published in other countries sheds a light on how people around the world see historical events.

The students choose what to work on at a given time, and learn using hands - on material as well as conventional 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.

For example, most students remember only 10 percent of a typical schoolbook application such as learning word pairs after three days.

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.

In case you're not up to date on your Project Kahn schoolbook you should know that they're possibly the first company out there when it comes to tuning good taste.

It sounds like their going after the electronic schoolbook market more than the ereader market.

The first lines of the book fracture the seemingly innocuous patter of Dick and Jane — Remember those very white children from the ubiquitous schoolbooks of the 1940s and»50s?

Academic / professional digital revenues were also up by 9 % and physical and digital schoolbook sales were up by 7 % and children's sales rose by 5 %.

Furthermore, the IRS can not levy necessary schoolbooks and clothing, as well as precise amounts of fuel, furniture, books and tools for business, professions and trades.

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...

His wood - carved paintings are like a cross between our elementary schoolbook doodles and Where the Wild Things Are, drawn in Maurice Sendak's cross hatched style.

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.

You might remember the banner, THE LAWYERS WEEKLY in proud New Century Schoolbook all - caps, and the fact that sometimes the banner would be in colour, other times in black.

You may have already discussed ways to maintain their personal safety and awareness on campus, but what about their belongings, which may include their expensive schoolbooks, laptop, bicycle, jewelry, or furniture?

Since technology plays an important role in the learning environment, each student would be provided with an interactive desk and holographic pen, and handheld electronic textbooks will replace traditional paper schoolbooks.

This story also appeared on WNYC's Schoolbook on October 25, 2012 as part of an exclusive collaboration.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

The idea was to beat the prices Susan was getting for her goods on eBay and pay for the couple's schoolbooks and living expenses.

It's time to forget the cherry tree mythologies of our schoolbooks.

For another thing, the bewildering cosmopolitan menu of affiliations and occupations would exhaust any schoolbook effort toward the reassuringly straightforward.

Make sure your daughter has her schoolbooks in order, her clothes selected and her alarm set.