This approach gives students the ability to use in-class time to apply their newfound information and to complete assignments.
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The course is a standard and nonstandard statistic curriculum but the project approach shows students how they can apply statistics to their own research projects.
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As a side-note and basis for comparison, Facebook took the approach of targeting a limited demographic (college students) before expanding to the broader population.
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An additional plus is that is the low stress approach for both students and parents.
Most believe the government has taken an uncompromising and unrelenting approach and many Ethiopians say the government needs to meet the students halfway before the situation escalates beyond all control.
For most teachers and students, using the approach is a significant shift in practice.
The successes point to the second critical lesson for foundations: Instead of limiting themselves to traditional charitable gifts -- building a playground, offering scholarships to deserving high school students -- the approach strengthens the connections between neighborhood residents and the marketplace.
Their selection criteria, blend of intellectual growth and hands-on leadership development and their approach to connecting and empowering the community of ALA students and graduates are atypical and extremely inventive.
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As the NMC report shows, 97% of students in a pilot study found the Challenge-Based Learning approach worthwhile, and 80% reported that their work made a difference in their communities.
Mofaz and Kadima have been pushing for an assertive approach that would force most of the ultra-Orthodox students to serve their country in the military or in civil service.
Not only would an approach that addresses these issued benefit students now, it would give them the mind-set they need to connect and collaborate in the 21st-century workplace.
One approach is to get more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students.
As Pittinsky pointed out, that is quite a different approach from the current one, which assumes little about the knowledge of individual students, teaching the same syllabus to each person that is enrolled in a specific course of study.
The district turned to Qpid.me to try a new approach to get students tested and reduce infections.
Sumner too has noticed a shift among the students in her club and among non-club members who approach her.
There are examples around the country that show that approach can be successful, though critics say it isolates students from their peers.
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He said that the government's plans take a more "flexible" approach towards universities, particularly on students' English language requirements and working during study.
Great believers in the idea that working out the answers for yourself is often the most effective approach to problems, they have deliberately created space in their MBA program, whereby students get an opportunity every week to switch off the phone, email and internet and engage in some good old-fashioned reflection.
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The notion of using the flipped classroom to help guide students to greater understanding by connecting them to true subject matter expert resources is the approach behind the Khan Academy, whose founder, Sal Khan, started by recording simple but engaging math lessons for a young cousin, and posting the videos on YouTube.
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Taking a wider approach, Intel hopes to establish a network of 100 Computer Clubhouses around the world to proliferate technology education among students between the ages of 8 and 18.
This study takes an interesting approach to disentangling this attendance of lottery winners vs lottery losers after the lottery is decided, but while the students are still attending their original schools.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
Rather than rely on a "trickle-down" approach to reducing inequity, political and educational leaders in the United States have adopted a strategy of targeting specific groups of students and mounting programs tailored to their needs.
In addition to the argument about the competency-based education approach presenting a poor simulacrum of the traditional higher education experience, there is also the nagging question as to whether the students who pursue this type of accreditation have truly gained the same level of subject area knowledge and expertise as those who have slogged through four years of course work.
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