open education
open education also known as open classroom, type of educational reform. The central tenet of this informal system is that children want to learn and will do so naturally if left to their own initiative. The open classroom is marked by decentralized learning areas, freedom of movement from area to area and even from room to room, group and individual student activities, and unstructured periods of study. Open education is concerned with erasing the formalized roles of student and teacher; instruction itself is rarely given to more than two or three pupils at a time and the same material is hardly ever presented to the class as a whole. Growing out of principles developed at British infant and junior schools, it first became popular in American elementary schools during the late 1960s. Many of its ideas were enunciated earlier by those involved in the progressive education movement.
Bibliography: See H. R. Kohl, The Open Classroom (1969); Open Education, ed. by E. B. Nyquist and G. R. Hawes (1972).
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Pile instrumentation using retrievable sensors.(Report)
Magazine article from: American Journal of Applied Sciences; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...control for driven piles was mostly based on...measurement of set of each pile coupled with a selected...measurement of the test piles are not representative of the actual working piles; * Structural integrity of the original pile cannot be reliably...
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Pile knits suffer in apparel, show gains in some markets.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 9/9/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...trend toward more innovative piles and an increased demand for quality pile,' Goodfellow told DNR. He...are also going back to high piles, which lend themselves well...a demand for high-quality pile, but you do have your peaks...
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Two piles of money bring income
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; THE SAVINGS GAME Two piles of money bring income, growth By HUMBERTO...much better. We call it the "two-pile" strategy, because we think of our money as being in two separate piles. Pile No. 1, made up entirely of interest...
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Pile Hardware Finds Its Niche
Magazine article from: The State Journal; 12/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; CHARLESTON - If running a business requires a love for that business, as Bill Pile contends, a love for the hardware business must run in the Pile family. FM Pile Hardware Co. on Charleston's West Side has thrived through four generations...
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Displacement Piles At Indian Shores.
Magazine article from: Dixie Contractor; 10/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...sit atop a displacement pile foundation from Coastal...Caisson Corp. Displacement piles have been used in other...reduced the number of piles required from 260 to...reducing the project's pile cap requirements. The piles have a typical depth...
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Field pile tests.
Magazine article from: National Driller; 10/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...the driving of the piles that will be load-tested. Field pile tests are performed...driveability of the selected pile as service piles. Prediction is the...the large number of piles involved. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pile tests are not practical...
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CFA Piles In "Surf City, USA".
Magazine article from: California Builder and Engineer; 4/21/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...would be used for a driven pile foundation system...conventionally drilled CIDH piles, but they are typically...load testing that the CFA piles not only easily exceeded the capacity of a driven pile, but also exceed the...the more expensive CIDH piles," he added. Once the...
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A pile of information about rugs, carpet
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/15/1998; 492 words
; ...floor covering that is laid on the floor but not fastened to it. There are a variety of rug/carpet piles: short pile, long pile, cut pile, loop, carved pile, woven pile, plush pile and shag. The loop is a uniform, uncut pile that conceals...
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Conflicting requirements for 'firm' pile concrete in secant pile walls
Magazine article from: Concrete; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...for the 'female' piles have a large impact on the achievable pile verticality tolerances...s design. Secant pile walls are formed by installing overlapping piles. These embedded walls...between the female piles (see Figure 1). The difference in pile diameter and pile...
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Analysis of piles in a residual soil--the ISC'2 prediction.
Magazine article from: Canadian Geotechnical Journal; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...embedment length test piles, one 350 mm square driven concrete pile, and two 600 mm diameter...1900 kN for the bored piles. The static loading test on the driven pile showed an offset limit...capacities of the bored piles. Key words: pile capacity, effective...
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pile
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...pile arms see stack arms at stack . pile it on inf. exaggerate the seriousness...behavior to increase guilt or distress. pile 2 • n. 1. a heavy beam...strengthen or support (a structure) with piles. pile 3 • n. the soft projecting...
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Talus Pile or Talus Slope
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...incorporates the concept of a pile, many geologists prefer it to "talus pile" and reserve the term "talus...dry homogenous materials in a pile generally experience slope failure...deposits but far less sorted than piles constructed by sedimentation...
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double-pile house
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
double-pile house. A pile is a row of rooms: a single-pile house is therefore one with a single row of rooms; a double-pile house is two rooms deep, sometimes, but not always, with a corridor between the two rows. According to some...
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pile driver
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
pile driv·er (also pile-driv·er ) • n. a machine for driving piles into the ground. DERIVATIVES: pile-driv·ing n. & adj.
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Piles, Roger de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Piles, Roger de ( b Clamecy, 7 Oct. 1635; d...art, amateur painter, and diplomat. De Piles was employed by Louis XIV on various confidential...the second half of the 17th century. De Piles took the side of the Rubénistes...
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