"It's really difficult," said Hector Hernandez, of First Choice Driving School — which has one stick-savvy instructor on staff — by way of explaining why so few schools teach manual.
"We don't have an instruction car to teach manual-transmission driving -- there just isn't enough demand," said Brad Huspek, who has been a driving instructor for 25 years and is a now school administrator for Sears Driving Schools in Lansing, Mich.
She wrote in a wide range of genres: textbooks, teaching manuals, children's literature, political pamphlets and critical periodicals.
As of today, UNICEF gives direct support to over 900 schools in Nigeria, providing them with water and sanitation, textbooks, teaching manuals, benches and desks, school bags and other educational and recreational materials.
A local group called the National Education Services Center produced the teaching manual that prompted the protests.
The Education Bureau said in the statement on Saturday that it had never endorsed the center's teaching manual.
Of course, Aguilera is the man who compiled the grammar and teaching manual for Kawesqar and is working on a dictionary with José.
For a nation of armchair detectives, the prolonged and very public Scotland Yard investigation was like a teaching manual in the new forensic sciences.
Mr. Wong said that Mr. Tsang had not been personally involved in preparing the teaching manual; Mr. Tsang did not respond to telephone calls on Monday afternoon to his office and to his executive assistant.
Several thousand people joined a street protest against the initiative on Saturday, and a crowd estimated by the police at 32,000 and by organizers at 90,000 marched on July 29 to denounce the teaching manual as "brainwashing".
