Across the country, education reformers and their allies in both parties have revamped the way teachers are graded, abandoning methods under which nearly everyone was deemed satisfactory, even when students were falling behind.
Phonics, however, is less appealing than many of those innovative approaches; and educators are reluctant to abandon methods of teaching they enjoy and that they think children enjoy.
"You have to learn very quickly and abandon methods or products that prove unworkable in the local market".
Increasingly, my colleagues and I are abandoning antiquated methods of tabulating data on paper and moving to technology platforms instead.
Some sites ceased submission after switching to rapid antigen tests and abandoning culture methods.
He said India should abandon "bloody methods" of revolution, the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha (people's movement) to achieve its social and economic goals.
Given this history, would one expect Clemens to abandon his method of pitching inside?
In 1991, the International Association of Athletics Federations abandoned this method as unreliable, and, nine years later, so did the International Olympic Committee.
Then, in 1998, the Assembly and Senate abandoned that method and drafted a budget in public conference committees without directly involving the governor.
Indeed, the true source of his success may consist in his understanding of when to abandon one method and devise another.
