Sentences with phrase «slapdash fashion»

Here an x-rayed pyramidal matrix of wooden pallets and crates reaches up to the ceiling in an uneven and slapdash fashion, reminiscing a conceivably different adaptation of the Babel Tower; it has been abandoned incomplete, unfulfilling a collective utopian desire.

The Obama administration's implicit support for states enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork of standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash fashion) that has dominated American public education for most of the past two centuries.

The key insight is that the Learning Experience is not something beyond our control, that emerges automatically after we hastily put together some training material in a slapdash fashion, but something that can be itself designed.