Two years ago, the Houston Independent School District began offering the SAT free during class time.
But the class time mandated is actually trivial: an hour a week for fifth and sixth graders.
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Brooklyn resident Jinnie Spiegler says her fifth-grade daughter has been spending hours of class time on practice tests.
This approach gives students the ability to use in-class time to apply their newfound information and to complete assignments.
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Every Saturday and Sunday morning were dedicated to team meetings or class time or office hours with professors or catching up on homework or studying.
Leading a grieving family through the 23rd Psalm while at the death bed of their loved one is worth more than a hundred hours of class time.
University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.
Instruction comes via live presentations and taped sessions from well-known professors, though much of the class time is spent with "coaches, " usually business students in their late 20s who facilitate the classes with one-on-one assistance.
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" Teachers typically allot class time for computer use when they require kids to get online, but Mr. Adams acknowledges that those students who have home Internet have the advantage of "unlimited time to pull in more information and fine-tune their digital projects.
Its low-cost online programs rely on competency-based progression, not class-time or credit hours.
Parents would be allowed to stay in the school during class-time on Thursday to reassure their children, she added.
The father was a Baltimore lawyer who, to the son's chagrin, shared the racial bigotry of his class and time.
That would mean the current 35-hour working week remaining, as well as the amount of class contact time, set at 855 hours.
The Parkers' own story began in 1883, as America was just beginning to develop a middle class with time for leisure pursuits.
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There's 4GB of on-board storage (with a microSD slot to increase that) and WiFi, which Sony plans to use for sharing notes with those who didn't make it to class on time.
By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, adaptive learning has been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency and earn better grades.
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Once this was explained to us that she could not take a day-time class because those students were full-time and would have expectations on her to meet for study groups that, taking time to say, nurse a baby, would interfere with!
So Zedan added a class at a time and, finally, as many as four in a semester.
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So the Tories are desperate to shore up their base among middle-class voters: time therefore for a risk.
At Stanford University's school of medicine, professors electronically poll their students in class in real time, enabling them to tailor their lectures more precisely.
It is a fact that Roman bread and circuses produced a large leech class at a time when desperately needed manpower and resources for the Legions was scarce.
In this satirical essay, Swift criticizes the relationship between landowner and peasant, the attitude toward the working class of the time, and even some behaviors of the people for whom he was fighting.
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In January's election, new politicians such as Yair Lapid, finance minister, rose to power on promises to help the middle class at a time when Israel needs to cut spending and raise taxes to close a growing budget deficit.
But companies from Facebook to the automobile manufacturers have weighed in with briefs urging the high court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that they say would allow lawyers to assemble class actions any time they discover a company has violated a law or regulation.
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It could involve student behavior, or class preparation, or time management, or any number of other things.
Patrick Jones, who is in the historical-performance program at Juilliard, was in the master class for the second time.
The unspoken advantage of diversification is that it increases the odds of being in the right asset class at the right time.
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The 1936 Ford was a quintessential middle class automobile for its time.
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