Word: workbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Would you please turn to page 23 in your vocabulary workbook...
...night for each grade after that. But the point is not simply to fill up a set amount of time. For preoccupied teachers, admits Michelann Ortloff, a Portland school official and former elementary school teacher, "it's always easy to pull a few things out of the workbook, give them to students and say, 'This is your homework.'" Too many teachers send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that are not even reviewed the next day. Too many are enamored of those unwieldy "projects" that seem to exasperate kids more than they instruct them and that lead to excessive...
...Bodily Harm is not meant for the layman. Instead, it's more a workbook for the initiated, complete with checklists and common Q&A advice for injurers, their family and therapists. Strong's effort, by contrast, is a richly reported and achingly well-written account that benefits from a reporter's storytelling skills. As she profiles a range of injurers--from Andrew, a star chemistry student at a British university, to Fran, a wealthy suburban New York matron--Strong deftly crafts not a freak parade but a sad march of the familiar...
...toilet train them; how early can we get them into the most exclusive preschool?" Jack Wetter, a clinical psychologist in West Los Angeles, says he observed a goldilocked four-year-old in preschool. "I asked her what she was doing, and she replied, 'Can't talk now. Working on Workbook 2. Going to Workbook...
...abstinence-only movement dates back to a Reagan-era program that set aside $2 million a year for the development of classroom materials to teach adolescents to say no to sex. Today there are more than a dozen competing curriculums on the market, each offering lesson plans, activities and workbook exercises designed to encourage abstinence among teenagers...