Two years ago when the students were choosing majors, mobile device and data mining weren't the hot topics.
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In today's acrobatic schools, teachers don't beat their students when the students do poorly, the way they used to.
Klein said she kept looking out of the window, counting down the seconds to when the students would get off the bus.
When the students in the band donned white Navy-like band uniforms and marched out, the envious eyes of the student body followed every move they made.
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When the students were left to their own devices, their preferences closely matched those of experts for Consumer Reports, suggesting that they could easily identify the best jams.
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The problem often begins when the students are very young.
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"Next morning the teacher can connect, download that e-mail and when the students arrive, they can browse through those pages the way they would if they had full internet connectivity, " said Prof Amarasinghe.
He suggests this will be necessary by 2007, when the first students educated by the new methods will reach university.
When all the students tackled the same problems a second time, those who had done a simple, boring task during a break had more creative ideas than those who were assigned a tough cognitive puzzle, those who rested, or those who didn't take a break, says the study, co-authored by Jonathan Schooler, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
For example, when the researchers asked the MBA students about their likely salary package in their first job, the optimists tended to predict that their starting earnings would be higher than average for their peers--but the optimists didn't, in fact, end up with above-average starting salaries.
The same thing happened earlier this year when college students across the country stood up and demanded that Congress keep rates low on student loans.
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The students have met the Kenyan Boys Choir, who told their American counterparts what kind of animals they might see when the Ron Clark students travel to Kenya on a school trip in June.
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Andrea Rebello, 21, was at her Long Island home near the campus with twin sister Jessica and other Hofstra University students when the suspect rang the door in Friday's early hours.
Lucia Regina da Silva, a mother of a fifth grader who survived the attack, said that her daughter told her that older students had covered the bodies of younger students for protection when they heard the gunfire across the hall.
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The blaze broke out during a weekend when students were celebrating the end of summer.
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Sheardown was an immigration officer at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran when students and militants stormed the U.S. Embassy there on November 4, 1979, taking more than 50 Americans hostage.
During an early scene in the 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, Keating (played by Robin Williams) sets the tone for the rest of the movie when he asks his students to read the introduction to their poetry textbook.
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The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.
Over the next decade, institutions in the U.S. and in other countries with mature higher education sectors will be struggling to justify the cost and value of a residential degree program when students get much of the same content and a good portion of the classroom experience from an online instructor in another city or across an ocean.
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Most of it factors into supply and demand and the fact that students have few alternatives when the prof says X book is required.
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Someday Khan will get his targeted billion students when the Internet and computers touch average people.
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But when the researchers asked college students and children to draw a T. rex, most gave it an upright posture instead.
After 30 minutes, when the car is finally parked, the watching students whoop with delight and give the poor woman a round of applause.
Those in India's Education Ministry say they dream of a day when students around the world are able to get their hands on an Aakash computer, because of its affordability.
These are open during the hours when students are aloft and foraging for food, coffee, companionship, as well as a place to read or study outside the too-familiar dorm or too-formal library.
When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
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The police are alerted immediately when students are absent, helping return them to the classroom more quickly.
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About 20 residents shouted in protest, then stood and turned their backs on the board when it decided that in the future, students could address the board only at the end of meetings.
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