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The Measure of Progress : Counting What Really Matters
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today.In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today’s economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers.When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today’s digital economy?Coyle makes the case for a new framework, one that takes into consideration current economic realities. Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. They are essential for guiding better economic policies; they involve questions of freedom, justice, life, and death.Governments use statistics that affect people’s lives in ways large and small.The metrics for economic growth were developed when a lack of physical rather than natural capital was the binding constraint on growth, intangible value was less important, and the pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply.Today’s challenges are different. Growth in living standards in rich economies has slowed, despite remarkable innovation, particularly in digital technologies.As a result, politics is contentious and democracy strained. Coyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail.Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.
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50 Teaching and Learning Approaches : Simple, easy and effective ways to engage learners and measure their progress
This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 teaching and learning approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one.For each approach, the authors include in-practice examples taken from a range of teaching contexts.The text also offers clear support for teachers on how they can assess learners' progress when using each approach.This focus on the need to see and measure the learning that is taking place supports the reader to concentrate on the learning and not be distracted with the newness of different approaches.
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Teachers Learning : Professional Development and Education
A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education. Teachers Learning focuses on continuing teacher's professional development through accounts of recent enquiries.From presenting evidence and arguments about the teacher's role and profession, knowledge and knowledge creation, other organisations in the educational landscape, issues of power, status and development, this book highlights the crucial importance and effectiveness of teachers' learning benefitting pupils and classroom learning.
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Measure for Measure
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How do I measure a tape measure?
To measure with a tape measure, first locate the end of the tape and line it up with the starting point of the object you want to measure. Then, pull the tape measure along the object until you reach the end point. Take note of the measurement where the end of the object lines up with the tape measure. Make sure to read the measurement at eye level to ensure accuracy. If the tape measure has both imperial and metric units, be sure to use the correct units for your measurement.
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What is a vocational preparation education measure in rehabilitation?
A vocational preparation education measure in rehabilitation is a program or intervention designed to help individuals with disabilities gain the skills and knowledge necessary to enter or re-enter the workforce. This may include training in specific job skills, career counseling, job placement assistance, and support services to help individuals succeed in a work environment. The goal of vocational preparation education measures is to empower individuals with disabilities to achieve economic self-sufficiency and independence through meaningful employment.
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How do you measure with a tape measure?
To measure with a tape measure, first, ensure the tape measure is fully extended and the end is securely anchored at the starting point. Then, align the beginning of the tape measure with the edge of the object or surface you are measuring. Next, read the measurement where the other end of the object or surface ends. Make sure the tape measure is straight and not twisted to ensure an accurate measurement.
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How do I measure size with a tape measure?
To measure size with a tape measure, first, ensure the tape measure is straight and not twisted. Place the end of the tape measure at one point of the object you want to measure, and then extend the tape measure to the other end of the object. Read the measurement where the tape measure meets the end of the object. Make sure to note the units being used (inches, centimeters, etc.) for an accurate measurement.
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Measure for Measure
Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Measure for Measure has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges.This version of Measure for Measure aims to be different from other editions of the play.It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding.You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you.Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed.
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Measure for Measure
An accessible new translation of one of Shakespeare’s most interesting and challenging plays. One of Shakespeare’s most difficult plays, Measure for Measure has long challenged performers and audiences alike.In reworking the play in her translation, Aditi Brennan Kapil honors the structure, rhythms, and themes of Shakespeare’s original.Kapil’s updated language makes this cautionary fable about frailty, power, and the perils of legislating morality accessible for today’s audiences. This translation of Measure for Measure was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays.These translations present the work of “The Bard” in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century.These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.
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Measure For Measure
Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance.Their wide-ranging selections encompass epic, folk songs, the Romantics, the Victorians, poets of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary hip hop.For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have employed over the ages.Measure for Measure has sections on Accentual Metre (Kipling, Bishop, Auden), Trochees (Blake, Dickinson, Dorothy Parker), Anapests (Byron, Frost, Langston Hughes); other sections cover iambs, ballads, and more exotic metres like amphibrachs, dipodics, hendecasyllabics and sapphics
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Measure for Measure
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape?Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt?How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays.The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation.These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry.This is one of Shakespeare's most probing and powerful works.
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What is the difference between degree measure and angle measure?
Degree measure and angle measure are essentially the same thing, as both refer to the measure of the size of an angle. However, degree measure specifically refers to the unit of measurement used to quantify angles, where a full circle is divided into 360 degrees. On the other hand, angle measure is a more general term that can encompass different units of measurement, such as radians or gradians, to quantify the size of an angle. In summary, degree measure is a specific type of angle measure, using degrees as the unit of measurement.
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Can I measure the drum skin with a tape measure?
Yes, you can measure the drum skin with a tape measure. To get an accurate measurement, place the drum on a flat surface and measure the diameter of the drum skin from one edge to the opposite edge, passing through the center of the drum. This measurement will help you determine the size of the drum skin you need for replacement or customization.
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What are the formulas for radian measure and degree measure?
The formula for radian measure is θ = s/r, where θ is the angle in radians, s is the arc length, and r is the radius of the circle. The formula for degree measure is θ = (π/180) * d, where θ is the angle in degrees, π is pi (approximately 3.14159), and d is the arc length in degrees. Radian measure is based on the radius of a circle, while degree measure is based on dividing a circle into 360 equal parts.
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What is the difference between degree measure and radian measure?
Degree measure and radian measure are two different ways of measuring angles. Degree measure is based on dividing a circle into 360 equal parts, where each part is called a degree. Radian measure, on the other hand, is based on the radius of the circle. One radian is the measure of the central angle that intercepts an arc equal in length to the radius of the circle. While 360 degrees is equivalent to 2π radians, radian measure is often preferred in calculus and other advanced mathematics because it simplifies many trigonometric equations and identities.
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