Sentences with phrase «year on a single topic»

«Whereas, if we spent, as many countries do, a quarter of a year on a single topic, working on it deeply, you could then understand it deeply enough to move forward.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

It's one of those Steve, you can't look, you can't look away feelings — and it seemed to us a really interesting book to do after last year when we had done a single - topic issue on origins.

«Our study, which is the largest study to date examining the topic of single sports specialization, provides a foundation for understanding current trends in specialization in youth sports,» said researcher, Patrick S. Buckley, MD of the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. «Our results noted that current high school athletes specialized, on average, two years earlier than current collegiate and professional athletes.

Our 2002 single topic issue on time won the national magazine award that year.

In their first collaborative article 20 years ago, 2008 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier, along with Robert Gallo, co-investigators who discovered HIV, introduced a Scientific American single - topic issue on AIDS.

Receding Himalayan glaciers Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single - topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University's Robert Socolow that set out a well - reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet - livable threshold of 560 ppm.

This is one of the few topics I plan on including every single year.

While politics was such a hot dating topic during the election year, 26 % of singles in the survey said they'd change the subject if it came up on a date.

Biker Single calls itself the number one dating site for motorcycle riders, and it attributes that to its history (16 + years), special services (like Verified Bikers), blog posts (on topics like «10 Reasons to Be With a Biker»), and customer support team (available 24/7), to name a few reasons.

FEATURES Colored number rods varying in length from 1 to 10 units Easy to add, drag, rotate, and remove rods Snapping for easy placement and alignment Optional square grid to more easily see rod lengths Number line Labels (integers, decimals, fractions) Annotation feature to write on the screen with a finger Includes 1 Single - User, 1 year license MATH TOPICS Skip Counting Adding Integers Subtracting Integers Multiplying Integers Dividing Integers Dividing Integers with Remainders Understanding Fractions Comparing Fractions Equivalent Fractions Common Denominators Adding Fractions Subtracting Fractions Factors Ratios and Proportions

Considering that research suggests that it takes around 50 hours on a single CPD topic to make a sustainable change in practice but that teachers have to use this limited time for lots of CPD topics, there is really no surprise that research suggests that teachers barely improve their teaching after the first three years on the job — everything becomes habitual and automated and these habits are impossible to shift without concentrated time and effort.

2005 The Rape of the Sabine Women, single channel High Definition Video Cliff House, multi channel installation 2003 89 seconds at Alcazar, single channel video based on Las Meninas 2002 Portman's Looking Glass, a 4 projector installation, 150 ft. 16 mm loop Fly Right, a video triptych of Hasidic girls playing dodge ball 2001 Solace, a short film featuring soprano Kati Agocs 2000 China White - Scenes from an exile, three screen panoramic video installation 1999 Ten Women and a Shark or 15 years in 5:30, a short film 1998 Town Topic, three channel panoramic video installation, shot at Town Topic, Kansas City 1997 How to tell the future from the past, 12 channel surveillance video installation in the Serkeci Train Station, Istanbul, Turkey The Whites were a Mystery, 3 channel video filmed in Lomé, Togo 1996 Imagining Beforehand, 3 channel video, NYC 1995 Die Platzsünde, collaboration w / Ricoh Gerbl & Ivana Mestrovic, Rome / NYC 1993 Real Time, single channel video 1989 New Koke: An Advertisement for Real Life, a short pixal - vision video w / Karen Hatch

«We didn't find a single paper on the topic that argued the rate of global warming has not slowed (or even stopped) in recent years,» wrote scientists Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger with the libertarian Cato Institute.

... I spent my first year at GW trying to write well, trying to really «learn» the material, and I didn't get a single «A.» My second year, in contrast, I didn't do much reading and I approached the exam with a «get more points» mentality — before the exam, I would go over old exams and construct detailed lists of «points» to hit on for each topic, and would try my best to find a case to cite for each.

Each year is focussed on a single topic.