Schools & Teaching
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Jim Trelease [Trelease, Jim]

In case you weren’t keeping score, that’s an eighty-word sentence, normally not a thirteen-year-old’s reading fare. But I was willing to wade through it to get the scoop on this ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Kumar, Ranjit

To draw a clear distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection is both difficult and inappropriate because of the overlap between them. The difference between them mainly lies ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 4,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jo Boaler

Conclusion The different equitable strategies I have suggested in the second part of this chapter—changing messages about who belongs; giving more inquiry opportunities; eliminating, reducing, or changing homework; and encouraging ...
( Category: STEM Education March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Edmundson, Mark [Edmundson, Mark]

The English Major Lately, when the time of year comes for college sophomores to trundle off to the offices of their faculty advisers to declare their majors, it’s not hard ...
( Category: Education Theory March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Helga Nowotny

Sharing uncertainty: how stem cell research ‘got ethics’ Although carrying a biomedical promise similar or even greater than IVF, stem cell research had a far less auspicious start. The history ...
( Category: Epistemology February 29,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:David Edmund Moody

When the time came for Krishnamurti to share his findings with me, I could not exclude the possibility of any given outcome. Erna and the trustees were strongly invested in ...
( Category: History February 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Peter Economy & Randy Ingermanson [Economy, Peter & Ingermanson, Randy]

Objective: Your reader needs to be able to visualize exactly what your character wants next. Worthwhile: Your reader must believe the character would actually make this decision, based on her ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics February 28,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Deary, Ian J. [Deary, Ian J.]

Reaction time People with higher intelligence test scores have, on average, shorter and less variable reaction times. Look at Figure 14, which shows a box that measures people’s reaction times. ...
( Category: Cognitive February 26,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Hill, Russ [Hill, Russ]

4. Juniata College: ICS design in use. The ideas and spirit of the Personal Achievement Strategy have been employed by Juniata College for a period of 40 years. When you ...
( Category: Educational Psychology February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Laurice Elehwany Molinari

A mini-twister disturbed the still air. It instantly stopped spinning, and Uriel, Raziel, Raphael, and Gabriel—an impossibly beautiful female angel with shoulder-length, copper-colored hair—emerged from its center. They turned to ...
( Category: Christian February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno

LECTURE THIRTEEN 27 June 1968 Ladies and Gentlemen, In my last lecture I tried to define in principle the peculiar position of sociology in relation to the neighbouring disciplines. I ...
( Category: Modern February 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]

Their murders were meticulously calculated, methodically planned. Bruce Phillips and Judy Roberts disappeared in June. Their bodies were found in mid-August, when hunting season opened. Jim Freeman and Bonnie Smyth ...
( Category: Curricula February 11,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SIXTH WALK THERE are very few of our automatic reactions whose cause we cannot discover in our hearts, if we are really capable of looking for it. Yesterday, while walking ...
( Category: French February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

FROM BOOK V […] Always justify the tasks you set for young girls, but keep giving them tasks. Idleness and disobedience are the two most dangerous faults for them, and ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Deresiewicz

Of all the questions students ask me, the most common is also the hardest. It is some version of “So what should I do?”: where should I go to school? ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects February 4,2016 )