This is due partly to the weight put on religious instruction and partly to the emphasis on rote learning.

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The separate California State University system, which is facing its own financial nightmares, recently canceled some days of instruction in order to put professors and other staff members on furlough.

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You're standing at a bus-stop, the adverts come to life, you're looking at menu, you can see the food, instruction manuals can show you how to put the Ikea table together.

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Some classrooms follow a fairly strict applied behavioral analysis methodology, which tends to put a strong emphasis on one-on-one instruction, using rewards and punishments to spur learning and measuring incremental progress.

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Students who are bored or inattentive or who put little effort to schoolwork are unlikely to benefit from better standards, curriculum, and instruction unless schools, teachers, and parents take steps to address their lack of motivation, the CEP papers conclude.

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They justify the decision to publish it today by pointing out that, although Parise had indeed put it aside at a time when he knew he was dying, he left no clear instruction against publication after his death.

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