Sentences with phrase «student textbook»

Calling for correction of factual errors in a student textbook is not censorship.

We could argue about whether or not «Calling for correction of factual errors in a student textbook is censorship», but the complaints made by FoE and James Hansen do not relate to matters of fact.

There are many textbooks that are part of various programs that be purchased or loaned directly from Amazons new student textbook store.

One teacher initiated the study of the new reading series throughout the grade levels, examining the Literacy by Design «Sourcebook» (student textbook) and guided reading series for its alignment with character virtues, ethical decision - making, coping skills and authentic learning.

- A district - wide review of its nonpublic student textbook loan program.

Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards: A Historical Reanalysis of Text Complexity Educational Researcher, October 2013 Researchers find that contrary to the authors of the English Language Arts component of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)-- which builds a case for higher complexity in textbooks and reading materials for students by pointing to research showing a steady decline in the difficulty of student textbooks over the past 50 years — text complexity actually has either risen or stabilized over this time.

For this reason, MFI worked with Nelson Education Ltd. to develop teacher resource materials and student textbooks for both the Grade 11 and the Grade 12 AYEP courses that specifically reflect the students for whom the program was designed.

They bill it as a way you can access your library titles in DRM format or student textbooks.

The Nook Color may not be an e-ink like most dedicated e-readers but this allows student textbooks to shine in full color.

In addition to unauthorized downloads, 31 percent of students in the survey stated that they photocopied or scanned chapters from other student textbooks.

Not exact matches

Here is why: If a student believes «positively enough» that he or she will get straight «A «s yet they never read the textbooks or study for the exams, what do you think will happen?

The firm's platform lets professors create and buy digital teaching materials, including textbooks, and facilitates in - class participation on students» smartphones.

Adaptive learning software is quickly replacing the role of textbooks in the classrooms and students are tackling subjects with the aid of tailor - made computer programs that assist their needs.

In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

Another perk of Prime Student is great discounts on textbooks.

Does a student with a serious face hunched over a thick textbook come to mind?

This week's easy - to - sell business idea imagined by one of my student groups involved a service that would charge Babson students 99 cents to list textbooks for sale.

How one retired professor made a fortune by co-authoring a textbook that would shape how generations of MBA students learned finance.

«One of the ways we monetize the site is by providing a price comparison tool for textbooks that helps students find the absolute lowest price, and we then get a commission from the seller,» LoPresti says.

As a student at Winona State University, he organized textbook buyback events on campus twice a year.

«We regularly review our course materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure least disruption to schools and students,» a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.

This fall, 24 college students will leave their dorms and textbooks behind to spend the next two years working on their own start - ups.

«We regularly review our course materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure the best learning outcomes for schools and students,» a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.

The non-certified student loans could be used towards the cost of room and board, textbooks, and other related educational expenses.

Student loans aren't just for buying textbooks, No. 2 pencils, and apples for bribing teachers anymore.

Fortunately, in most circumstances, student loans, both federal and private, can be used to cover textbook purchases.

Chegg, an online textbook retailer, announced they will also help employees reduce student loan payments.

Students can also take advantage of this buyback program by purchasing older editions of textbooks.

Every major macroeconomics textbook whether Keynesian monetarist or classical in orientation teaches students that investment increases as real interest rates decline.

Ask any college student, and they will tell you that the cost of textbooks has gotten out of control.

Although there are few statistics on average annual costs for books and supplies, some sources place it as high as $ 1,200 per term, according to an NBC News report.Understandingly, the high cost of textbooks has students wondering if they can apply their student loan money toward the cost of supplies.

As a teacher, should I write a textbook that might affect many more students or other teachers than I can reach individually?

I can heartily recommend it not only as a textbook for college and seminary students but also as material for advanced - level adult study groups in local churches.

, 000 for tuition and have hundreds of millions, or more, in endowments while students in a college in Nigeria have no textbooks.

Howard Zinn's influential American history textbook for high - school students follows Camus down to every last massacre, lynching, oppression, exclusion, and injustice.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

The student is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality are no longer relevant.

Do the folks who write intelligent design school textbooks ever ask students to work out which of the creator gods / beings might be the most likely candidate?

The students will get a lot more out of that then some textbook that is probably outdated anyway.

I agree that students have been «trained to imagine their courses and textbooks as forms of indoctrination.»

Wahlberg gives the example of high school students who learn propositional truths of modern physics from textbooks.

Their textbooks, used by many generations of Harvard students, promoted foundations of social reasonableness that included both human and divine testimony.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

So I abandoned the traditional textbooks and, instead, introduced my students to the great nature writers.

«Basically the thing [the Islamic - studies teacher] did is that he is so approachable and he does not talk about the textbook Islam,» one student told us.

School administrators could change the textbook's cover or format, or replace the teacher, but unless the students are interested, none of these actions will accomplish much.

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

While we have textbooks available about what makes public speaking effective, most of our students greet this kind of material with a yawn.

Now he must teach, and preach, and express what he had so far been able only to set down in the margins of his textbooks, or give to his students, or express informally to his brethren, who were not always either interested or in agreement, though never less than aware of his gifts.

The empty tote bag can carry an executive's briefcase, a student's textbooks or 20 pounds of groceries.