There is certainly nothing conventional about Glen, who left school at 17, never attended university and managed to talk his way into a job at Xerox after having spent time roaming the Highlands of Scotland for a living.

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This practical and related-to-real-life type of learning is the result of the combination of traditional classroom-based learning with activities outside the school which do not only include conventional homework, but also several opportunities for learners to involve their community members in the learning process.

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"His engagement would send a very strong signal to people who are wavering" that supporting expanded background checks would be, "if not a safe vote, then not as dangerous a vote as the conventional wisdom might hold, " said Kristin Goss, a professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.

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In a new NBER working paper, Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley poke different holes in the conventional view.

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Testifying to Congress recently, Tara O'Toole of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said that anti-terrorism programmes have concentrated chiefly on the threat posed by conventional explosives or chemical weapons.

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