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Progressive Reforms in Education: A Search for Progressive Teaching Strategies
<p>This study investigated the extent to which progressive teaching structures were incorporated in classrooms by public high school teachers in a diverse city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Teachers of core academic subjects at identified high schools volunteered to complete a survey on their use …
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Progressive Response Effort Preference Assessments
The identification of preferred and reinforcing stimuli has long been a focus of behavior analysts in applied settings. Research has primarily focused on different methodologies for assessing whether stimuli are preferred and there has been additional research on identifying under what conditions …
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Comenian Elements in Progressive Education
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Progressive transmission of digital images
New high-resolution sensors produce very large data sets and associated images requiring large bandwidths or extended times to transmit. Other techniques have been proposed to compress and sort an image to send the most significant portions of the image first, allowing the user to choose the amount …
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Progressive muscular dystrophy in childhood
The words of Gowers are as true today as they were nearly a century ago. My interest in muscular dystrophy started in 1957 when, as Senior House Officer at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey, I first observed a large number of children suffering from this tragic disease. The …
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Progressive consumption : strategic sustainable excess
Trends in the marketplace show that urban dwellers are increasingly supporting locally produced foods. This thesis argues for an architecture that responds to our cultures consumptive behaviors. Addressing the effects of consumption in the contemporary urban environment and ultimately developing an …
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Artistic and semantic progressive image coding
Progressive image coding provides web users a faster full-image preview when only a small fraction of the file has been transmitted. JPEG is the most widely used progressive compression technique. However, the compressed quality is low at low bitrates and it entirely ignores the semantics of …
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Progressive place assimilation in optimality theory
<p>This thesis presents an investigation into progressive place agreement in clusters through the lens of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004; McCarthy & Prince, 1995, 1999). A large typology of such languages is presented and examined to detail a broad swath of phenomena. The main …
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The semantics of the English progressive
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Characteristics of Contemporary U.S. Progressive Middle Schools
Progressive education has a long history within the American K-12 education system dating back to the late 1800s. During this period, two very distinct ideologies represented progressive education: 1) administrative progressives supporting standardization as a means of efficiency and 2) pedagogical …
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Progressive Education in Transition: An Intellectual History
… focused on the historical evidence of sustained progressive forms of education. The developments within the field of curriculum studies during the late 1800s transitioned through changes in the 1950s and 1960s and the movement forward with the reconceptualization of the field in the early 1970s …
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Abraham Lincoln and Progressive Reform, 1890-1920
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.
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Changes in Cardiac Output With Progressive Work
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:57:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002228.pdf: 8727319 bytes, checksum: aab23fb3e0ac19b7f77948579a4c2cd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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Progression and variation of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with poor prognosis. The development of novel therapeutics has been hindered by long delays from symptom onset to diagnosis, marked heterogeneity, and uncertainty over the optimal outcomes in early-phase clinical …
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Unschooling media : participatory practices among progressive homeschoolers
Introduction: Rehoboth, the name of my hometown in southern Massachusetts, comes from the Hebrew work for "crossroads." Indeed there's not much in this rural town besides Route 44 and Route 118, with smatterings of horse farms and single-family homes. These two blue highways intersect at the town's …
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