Searching for such content requires painstaking attention.
Role in Nuclear Test Ban Parallel to his life as a public figure, Dr. Commoner had a reputation as a brilliant teacher and a painstaking researcher into viruses, cell metabolism and the effects of radiation on living tissue.
Many found their love of science first triggered by a mentor, an older friend, relative or teacher who introduced them to the painstaking discipline of their craft.
"Scholastic's Big Coal Mistake" (editorial, May 13) acknowledges that Scholastic's children's books, magazines, reading programs and Web site content are used in most American classrooms — a responsibility and trust that we have built through painstaking work through 90 years of service to teachers and schools.
A crew member knewthe craft teacher at Long Bay prison in Malabar, New South Wales, and the painstaking role of pom-pom construction was fortuitously outsourced to inmates.
As the system was new to them, some teachers found it difficult to control and it was quite slow and painstaking for them to write complete words on the screen in order to avoid broken strokes and incomplete characters.
Rather than calmly sitting down for a parent-teacher conference where, as the teacher, you'll have to politely listen as some twerp's dad bashes your painstaking attempts to teach his kid to multiply, or grit your public-defender teeth through a disciplinary hearing where you've got to apologize for the fact that in blocking your face from a defendant's attempted punch, you broke his wrist.
As Mr. Brooks notes, painstaking practice at increasing levels of complexity or challenge and a guiding hand from knowledgeable teachers are necessary to refine promising abilities into excellence.
But the science in the book required a painstaking and at times brain-hurting education — hours reading textbooks and papers, but also listening to some admirably patient teachers.
The NextGen project is trying to change that, through a painstaking process that includes not just software development but also testing, data gathering, observations of classroom dynamics, interviews with teachers, assessments of children's learning and controlled comparisons.
