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  2. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    [11] These standards are put in place, as stated below, to help students, teachers, parents, etc. to know what is expected of a certain child at a certain age to know by the end of a unit, term, school year, etc. [12] Standards are normally published and freely available to parents and taxpayers as well as professional educators and textbook ...

  3. This misconception, sometimes called the equal transit-time fallacy, is widespread among textbooks and non-technical reference books, and even appears in pilot training materials. In fact, the air moving over the top of an aerofoil generating lift is always moving much faster than the equal transit theory would imply, [ 440 ] as described in ...

  4. Open educational resources - Wikipedia

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    OpenStax's stated mission is to create professional grade textbooks for the highest-enrollment undergraduate college courses that are the same quality as traditional textbooks, but are adaptable and available free to students. [116] Other initiatives derived from MIT OpenCourseWare are China Open Resources for Education and OpenCourseWare in ...

  5. Science education - Wikipedia

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    Surrounded by Science is a resource book that shows how current research on learning science across informal science settings can guide the thinking, the work, and the discussions among informal science practitioners. This book makes valuable research accessible to those working in informal science: educators, museum professionals, university ...

  6. Science of reading - Wikipedia

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    The science of reading (SOR) is the discipline that studies reading. [4] Foundational skills such as phonics , decoding, and phonemic awareness are considered to be important parts of the science of reading, but they are not the only ingredients.

  7. Copy editing - Wikipedia

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    Example of non-professional copy editing in progress [1]. Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style, and accuracy.

  8. Grading systems by country - Wikipedia

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    For percentage grades, 0% is awarded for extremely poor performance and 100% is awarded for exceptional work. The grade of 10 is reserved for exceptional achievements. 9 is most commonly used for a United States equivalent of an A. In some cases, the grade can be rounded for example if a student got 67% the grade can sometimes be rounded to a 7.

  9. Christian Science Quarterly - Wikipedia

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    Called the Lesson-Sermon, each week's Bible lesson is read in daily individual study during the week, and as the Sunday sermon in Christian Science church services around the world. It is composed of a series of references from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by Mary Baker Eddy.