Sentences with phrase «textbooks were in use»

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Use this rule of thumb when it comes to selecting a stock photo: If it looks like it could be in a school textbook, don't use Use this rule of thumb when it comes to selecting a stock photo: If it looks like it could be in a school textbook, don't use use it.

FACT: Product Idea to Product Success is now read in over 14 countries, and used by major universities as a textbook.

Despite being pushed out of the companies he founded, he used his time in prison to teach himself how to code, without the internet using textbooks and his # 2 golf pencil.

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

This should not be surprising because the bible was not written as a textbook, applying consistency and technicality in how it used terms; moreover, we are talking about a number of different writers.

Although the paper employs some materials from contemporary economics, they are used to buttress its theological contentions in the way that creationists use bits of science to support their claim that the Bible is a scientific textbook.

In an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every waIn an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every wain homes which can give them the worst start in every wain every way.

There are a number of other systems available that use the now standard textbook Programming in Prolog by W. F. Clocksin and C. S. Mellish, published by Springer - Verlag.

A word of caution is in order: the materials used for this study — a two - foot - high pile of manuals, textbooks, pamphlets and memos — came from denominational secretaries of evangelism.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

In some schools, the faith is taught using textbooks which haven't been granted an imprimatur.

The Compendium should be used as a textbook with the higher age groups of primary schools and with all ages in secondary schools.

The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore because I liked the pictures and because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history category of JEOPARDY.

This is your standard school - type English 11 textbook, of the sort I haven't used since I taught English 11 in public school twenty - three years ago.

Children in German schools were using Nazi textbooks with statements in them like this: «The teaching of mercy and love of one's neighbor is foreign to the German race, and the Sermon on the Mount is, according to Nordic sentiment, an ethic for cowards and idiots.»

For example, textbooks can be converted onto a disc, and laptops and recording devices can be used in the classroom to help with teachers» notes.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

(In your third - and fourth - year courses you were presumably using journal articles more than textbooks anyway.)

Striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing faded and apologetic in history textbooks.

Most striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-Semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing, faded and apologetic, in history textbooks.

The United Nations Agency, UNESCO, says sexist attitudes are «rife» in school textbooks used in developing countries.

«I want to thank those individuals in our technology department — who are always looking for ways to increase technology availability and use — and our partners in the Erie County Public Library system, for bringing virtual homework, textbooks and resources directly to our students and their families.

Dr. Teich is author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely - used textbook on technology and society, the seventh edition of which was published by St. Martin's Press in September 1996, and Science and Technology in the USA, volume 5 of Longman's «World Guides to Science and Technology,» published in 1986.

They are so accurate that some of his drawings are still used in textbooks today.

Since not every textbook author can also be an expert in linguistics, computational linguistic tools as we used them in our study can in principle also support authors in the selection and composition of texts.»

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

For example, this technology could be used in a new type of medical textbook that allows students to see a 3 - D animated model of a heart instead of a dreary anatomical drawing.

How good are the textbooks used to teach physics to middle schoolers in the United States?

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

Traditionally, illustrations were used in medical textbooks and medical journals.

Heaney, Balete, and Rickart are also authors of a book about the mammals of Luzon Island, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, that will be used in the Philippines as a college - level textbook.

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

Clearly, this term has been applied in catalysis for several decades and it is commonly used and defined in catalysis textbooks (2 — 5).

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

In fact, many of our textbooks in the Black schools were given to us after the White schools had used them for several years and felt that they were obsoletIn fact, many of our textbooks in the Black schools were given to us after the White schools had used them for several years and felt that they were obsoletin the Black schools were given to us after the White schools had used them for several years and felt that they were obsolete.

When I took Mycology 101 in grad school, the textbook situation was so bad that the one we used came on a CD - ROM.

«Furnas and McGrann provide a textbook example of how to detect differences in the timing of nesting among bird species using information on the peak date of singing derived from surveys and automated recorders,» according to UC Berkeley's Steve Beissinger, an expert on avian phenology who was not involved in the study.

Depictions of race and skin tone in anatomy textbooks widely used in North American medical schools could be contributing to racial bias in medical treatment, new research suggests.

As a result, they have provided an exemplary account of the global water budget that is being used in textbooks and encyclopedias.

The first medical textbook known to have discussed its use in medicine was the Collection of Commentaries on the Classic of the Materia Medica (Ben Cao Zhing Zhi Ju), written over 1,500 years ago.

These facts are acknowledged in nutritional textbooks (this one, for example), and the widespread use of the nitrogen balance method simply reflects the difficulty of reliably estimating protein requirements.

In Ayurvedic textbooks, one of the traditional uses is to crush ashwagandha roots into a paste which can be applied to reduce inflammatory swelling of the joints, and painful ulcers and wounds.

Today's «day in the life» post is one of my current job, which focuses heavily on supporting my fellow faculty find and use open educational resources (an educational movement to help bring down student costs by using or creating free and high - quality texts and resources instead of expensive textbooks).

Set in 1920s New York, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» is an expansion of the «Harry Potter» universe that centers on magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), whose textbook is later used by Harry, Ron, Hermione and the other students at Hogwarts.

Not for nothing, it makes textbook - worthy use of negative space — heightening the effectiveness of its intimate conversations, characters are often tucked away into the corner of the frame in fully realized visuals.

It's the name of a textbook Harry, Ron and Hermione used in their years at Hogwarts.

Books When Tim Oates, director of assessment research and development at exam board Cambridge Assessment, was asked to use his school curriculum expertise to lead the government's review of the national curriculum, his international research highlighted the importance of high quality textbooks in realising the aims of national curricula and supporting effective teaching.

Open source digital textbooks, which contain free, typically changeable material that can be shared between teachers, have been in the works for several years and are just one part of a larger movement to transform learning through the use of technology.

For example, a textbook used in a math course for elementary school teachers is entitled Social Justice through Mathematics, which explains why the view is so often disparaged.

Again, we're not simply recreating the textbook in a digital form, but considering the instructional design, the technology used, and the content delivery system.