The cap, if implemented, would apply for the duration of a single academic year, and would be discounted for homemade gifts or items intended for classroom use.
New York City began ranking teachers in the 2007-8 school year as part of a pilot project intended to improve classroom instruction.
This reallocation is intended to free classroom time for creating meaningful learning situations for in-class interaction between students and teachers.
The novel was written for Balliett's classroom intended to deal with real-world issues.
Still, the films can feel academic at times, as if intended as much for classrooms as for living rooms.
The Motion Picture Association of America has also developed a Web site, www.respectcopyrights.org, and a Digital Citizenship program intended for use in classrooms.
The book, which includes posters that can be hung in classrooms, is intended for schools, and her group has already been discussing its use in a human rights curriculum in Chicago, where Ms. Thomas lives (and still works as an architect).
Because the courses are intended to involve the classroom instructor, it could also help to blunt professors' unease with the online classes.
It shows Mrs. Clinton in a series of sunny scenes -- with elderly New Yorkers, in a classroom -- intended to amplify the sharper remarks being made by a narrator contrasting her views with those of her Republican opponent, Representative Rick A. Lazio.
Originally intended for the college classroom, "The Lonely Crowd" unaccountably landed on the best-seller lists and stayed there for months and months as thousands of Americans anxiously examined themselves and their neighbors for directional indications.
