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  2. Piled Higher and Deeper - Wikipedia

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    Piled Higher and Deeper was first published in The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, in October 1997.The newspaper had put out a call for comics and Cham, a student and teaching assistant at the time, discussed ideas for comics with his brother and friends.

  3. Think and Grow Rich - Wikipedia

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    Think and Grow Rich is a book written by Napoleon Hill and Rosa Lee Beeland released in 1937 and promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later- philanthropist Andrew Carnegie .

  4. Roald Dahl - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, four books by Dahl, led by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at number 35, ranked among the Top 100 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to determine the "nation's best-loved novel" of all time. [181] In surveys of British teachers, parents and students, Dahl is frequently ranked the best children's writer.

  5. Media bias - Wikipedia

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    In the 2017 Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, S. Robert Lichter described how in academic circles, media bias is more of a hypothesis to explain various patterns in news coverage than any fully-elaborated theory, [7] and that a variety of potentially overlapping types of bias have been proposed that remain widely debated.

  6. Homework - Wikipedia

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    However, Miriam Ferzli et. al. point out that just because an assignment is time consuming does not give students the right to call an assignment "busy work," which can be seen in the case of lab reports, which are indeed time consuming but which are also key to learning. [16]

  7. Student voice - Wikipedia

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    Student Voice Initiative is a national movement in Canada to give students a voice in their education. Student Voice Initiative operates on a foundation of support from policy-makers, school administrators, academics, and students from across North America and the world in support of giving students a greater voice in their own education. [25]

  8. Active learning - Wikipedia

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    Think-pair-share is helpful for the instructor as it enables organizing content and tracking students on where they are relative to the topic being discussed in class, saves time so that he/she can move to other topics, helps to make the class more interactive, provides opportunities for students to interact with each other (Radhakrishna, Ewing ...

  9. Parkinson's law - Wikipedia

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    Work contracts to fit in the time we give it. [4] the Asimov corollary to Parkinson's law: In ten hours a day you have time to fall twice as far behind your commitments as in five hours a day. [5] as well as corollaries relating to computers, such as: Data expands to fill the space available for storage. [6]