Sentences with phrase «schools than textbooks»

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For years, some business schools have gotten away with just providing a textbook education but companies are looking for more than facts and figures.

Decades later, Warren Buffett still sits at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual reports contain more investment advice than your typical business school textbook.

A study of school textbooks found that the pronouns he, him, and his occurred four times more often than the pronouns she, her, and hers.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

While many kids — including my own — are sad to see summer end, for too many of our of nation's children, back to school is more than new textbooks and teachers — it's about the relief of getting access to school meals again.

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

In fact, how your teen spends his summer can have a greater impact on his life than any school textbook ever will.

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).

It will certainly make for easier comparisons of student and school performance than we've ever had before and is apt to forge various new uniformities in curriculum, teacher preparation, textbooks, 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.

For the current school year, they budgeted more than $ 900 million for instructional materials, more than a quarter of all the money that will be spent on textbooks in the nation.

Supporters are more likely than opponents to say that the Common Core allows local school districts to decide which textbooks and materials to use in their schools (64 % compared to 30 %).

Even so, more than a decade later, traditional lecture and textbook methodologies continue to be a significant component of science and mathematics instruction in U.S. middle schools.

Just as preschoolers learn math by operating a pretend store instead of doing work sheets, he suggests high schoolers learn government by staging a mock Congress rather than reading a textbook.

In school settings they will undoubtedly — better than the traditional textbook exercises — motivate students to delve into mathematical problems.

A new book published by the Council of Chief State School Officers offers educators ways to respond to two criticisms of history instruction: its failure to promote democratic values and its heavy reliance on textbooks rather than original - source materials.

Some states, such as Indiana and Florida, already collect data on textbook adoptions, but even if it were necessary to collect data from a new sample of schools, the study would likely cost less than $ 2 million annually.

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).

As advocated by Russ Whitehurst and Matt Chingos, the search for more effective curriculum materials can yield outsized bang - for - the - buck, because schools are already buying textbooks and better textbooks do not cost more on average than less effective ones.

APPEAL: If we are able to raise more than $ 150,000.00, the rest of the fund will be spent based on the hierarchy of our needs in the following order: Pearson Common Core Curriculum Textbooks, Computer Lab, Reliable Transportation, Update and Maintenance of a Functioning School Website, Expansion of Classroom to Accommodate next year's 9th Graders, and the purchase of Commercial Grade Printers.

Indiana schools may be in a better position than most to implement the new standards because a number of districts have taken advantage of a rule change in 2009 that allowed them to purchase digital technology and devices with money from the state's textbook fund.

Betty Mitchell, head of the school, and five of her relatives and one other woman accepted more than $ 200,000 in state voucher money, textbook publishers and even landscapers — all money intended for disabled children who didn't even attend the school.

That is less than a third of the nearly $ 10,000 per student that the Greenwood Public School District spends while not being able to provide basics like textbooks to take home.

Does that mean, at the first sign of less - than - stellar test scores, our schools should jettison the ideals of their mission and bring in basal textbook programs, no - excuses discipline and test prep?

The plan is also likely to spur criticism for its use of about $ 10.3 million in one - time rather than recurring dollars for school textbooks and digital materials, despite long - standing complaints from districts and school leaders that classroom resources have fallen woefully behind in the last decade.

46 One reason for textbooks being the central source of information in American Schools is that the system wide exams focus on that material in them.47 This implies that the contest is more important than the content.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

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.

School systems blame a shortage of qualified teachers — less than 20 percent say they feel competent enough to teach personal finance — and funding need for textbooks as challenges to incorporating financial literacy in curriculums.

Welp, it's Columbus Day, and while your grade school textbook probably filled you in on the basics (he sailed across the Atlantic ocean blue in 1492 to «discover» the «New World,» etc.), there were also a few, uhm, less - than - pleasant outcomes to his journeys around the Americas — namely slavery, genocide, widespread disease, and generally tyrannical behavior.

So how far away are we from the days when a school just has to purchase an update to a digital textbook, rather than a new title?

According to new data from digital content distributor OverDrive, schools are adopting digital books and textbooks at a faster than ever rate.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

(AP)-- It's an experiment that has made back - to - school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

Rather than produce digital editions of K through 12thgrade textbooks for schools to adopt, Kno makes it possible for parents to purchase digital editions of their children's textbooks for home or school use.

Due to constraints on textbook adoption, concerns about device compatibility, and questions as to where the funding for mobile devices will come from, public schools have been slower on the ebook uptake than colleges.

«Even if the schools have not adopted digital textbooks, we wanted to give parents the option to have their kids» same textbooks available at home,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and Co-Founder of Kno, Inc. «With digital books priced at $ 9.99 or below, parents can now finally stop their kids from carrying their heavy backpacks to and from school for less than $ 60 for the school year by supplementing classroom materials with interactive textbooks that can be used at home and on the go.»

In a strange turn of events, it is astounding to note that the cost for purchasing and issuing e-readers across the grade levels for individual school systems to use electronic versions of textbooks is not anticipated to be any higher than the current costs for accumulating and storing print editions.

The first is that Habitat supports Creative Commons licensing, allowing publishers to create open source content and educational materials; in line with that is Inkling's announcement that it will be creating fifty open source titles for schools in partnership with the 20 Million Minds Foundation, furthering the reach and viability of digital textbooks in environments that are more than ready to receive them.

At Kno's recent launch of a dashboard and pricing schedule that makes it possible for parents of public school students to purchase digital editions of their children's textbooks for no more than $ 9.99 apiece, the iOS platform was the only one able to interact with the K - 12 digital texts.

Schools can opt for licenses of the materials, or students can pay their own materials» bills, with no semester cost amounting to more than $ 275, a noticeable savings over the typical cost of print textbooks.

It's hard to get a handle on exactly what «tens of thousands» means — will students find most of their textbook needs met this way when they arrive back at school in a few weeks, or will the number included be small enough to be more of a frustration than a boon?

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Decades later, Warren Buffett still sits at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual reports contain more investment advice than your typical business school textbook.

With the cost of tuition and textbooks being so high, it's difficult for students to keep their mind on their future rather than the constantly growing money costs, and how they will pay off their student loans after schooling.

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When you were in high school, did you glance up from your world history textbook, roll your eyes and say, «I could have done better than that»?

While most gaming laptops typically weigh closer to 10 pounds and are thicker than the average high school textbook, the Omen's relatively slim size and light weight make it an appealing prospect for gamers on the go.