Sentences with phrase «time over textbooks»

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When analyzed together with the aerosol loading over the same area at the same time, the outcome, says Koren, was a «textbook demonstration of the invigoration effect» of added aerosols on clouds.

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.

HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES TO COVER ALL 12 TOPICS IN GREAT DETAIL - I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneously.

A familiar debate over the origins of life — this time centered on a science - textbook sticker — is playing out in a Georgia courtroom, where parents are challenging their school district's written description of evolution as «a theory, not a fact.»

The debate over what Apple's electronic textbooks will mean for our formal education system comes at a time when we have not yet determined what tablet technology and the availability of electronic books (or «e-books») can mean for children's learning at home and other informal learning environments.

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.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Or why over 90 Arizona schools and districts have adopted Beyond Textbooks, which provides a strict calendar to keep teachers on track to ensure everybody is teaching exactly the same standard at the same time?

Also recalling a memorable conversation with her over coffee at an annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference during which he encouraged her to write a multicultural education textbook, Jim describes Sonia's initial hesitation and insistence that another book in addition to his own was not needed in the field at the time.

The complexity of workplace materials and college textbooks have held steady or increased over the past 50 years (Council of Chief State School Officers & National Governors Association Center on Best Practices, 2010); meanwhile, the level of text complexity in high schools has actually declined over time (Chall, Conard, & Harris, 1977; Hayes, Wolfer, & Wolfe, 1996).

«We really recognize that textbooks and course materials are a major expense for students, and those have continued to go up over time,» said Ed Blaguszewski, UMass spokesman.

CourseSmart looks not only at the price of textbooks, acknowledging that there is an inherent cost in the creation of the text by author experts over several years, but also is focused on making sure that the open source content is academically relevant and sustainable over a period of time.

Some of the highlights of the report mentioned that 47 % of students said they would opt for an e-textbook over print if the price and availability were the same; those who prefer print editions most often responded that they do so in order to resell the textbook at a later time.

It has been some time since my Meteorology education, but I dug out my textbook which tells me that CO2 constitutes about 5 % of Greenhouse Gases, with H2O being over 90 %.

I have taken new textbooks over 200 pages long and gone to Office Depot and had them slice the binder off ($ 2) and I scanned the whole book both sides at once in a very short time.

Add to that the fact that many lawyers simply do not enjoy spending large amounts of time pouring over case law and textbooks, and are more than happy to turn the task over to a specialist when the need arises.