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  2. Mary Budd Rowe - Wikipedia

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    Mary Budd Rowe. Mary Budd Rowe (1925–1996) was an American science educator and education researcher, best known for her work on "wait time," which showed that when teachers wait longer for children to answer a question, learning and inference can dramatically improve. [ 1][ 2] She headed the science education research division of the ...

  3. Start school later movement - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the start school later movement is an interdisciplinary effort by health professionals, sleep researchers, educators, community advocates, parents, students, and other concerned citizens working for school hours that give an opportunity to get more sleep at optimal times. It bases its claims on a growing body of evidence ...

  4. Wait list - Wikipedia

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    Wait list, in university and college admissions, is a term used in the United States and other countries to describe a situation in which a college or university has not formally accepted a particular student for admission, but at the same time may offer admission in the next few months if spaces become available. [1]

  5. 'Waiting a whole hour for a sandwich': College campuses are ...

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    "While if you work in a job that's student-facing, especially in dining areas, it's very difficult to completely keep a distance." There were a record 10.9 million job openings in America at the ...

  6. Student loans: Don't wait 'until the last moment' to figure ...

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    "The time to be thinking about repaying your student loan debt is today, not waiting until the last moment," Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid ...

  7. Stanford marshmallow experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a study on delayed gratification in 1970 led by psychologist Walter Mischel, a professor at Stanford University. [1] In this study, a child was offered a choice between one small but immediate reward, or two small rewards if they waited for a period of time. During this time, the researcher left the child ...

  8. In Wally Lamb’s New Novel “The River is Waiting”, an Inmate ...

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    The wait is over: Wally Lamb has a new novel coming. The bestselling author of novels like She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is Trueis set to release his latest, The River is Waiting, next ...

  9. Response-prompting procedures - Wikipedia

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    The progressive time delay procedure was developed first, [12] and the constant time delay procedure was developed as a more parsimonious procedure for teaching students with disabilities. [13] CTD and PTD are systematic procedures that use the teaching strategy of waiting on a learner's response that has likely been used haphazardly for years. [6]