Word: wake-up
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...suppose that is the intended effect. A wake-up call, more or less. I would rather it were still possible to celebrate Commencement the old way. The mournful way. The contemplative...
Jonathan S. Chavez ’05 won “Ultimate Final,” another service provided by Bell. Chavez’s $38 bid won him Bell’s services preceding one of his final exams, including, but not limited to, a wake-up call, a shared meal in the dining hall, one encouraging sign made with a sharpie marker, and Bell’s promise to “half-hum, half-sing inspirational songs” preceding the exam...
...five wake-up calls this morning because my alarm and my body are not to be trusted,” she says...
...Your story on women and the sciences was a wake-up call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects." Cathy Seeley Austin, Texas...
...Your story on women and the sciences was a wake-up call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects. Research confirms what perceptive teachers know: different people (whether they differ by gender, age or simply nature's diversity) learn at different times and in different ways. We cannot cling to a naive assumption that most students will learn in the same way if they just apply themselves. We know how to teach mathematics for all students: by using instruction strategies that target visual and perceptive ways of learning...