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How Much Does Concrete Cost Per Cubic Yard? Current Ready Mix Concrete Prices

How much does concrete cost. This is a current ready mix concrete company's price list. It lists the cost of a yard of concrete and other concrete additives like fibermesh and accelerators.

An Easy Way to Calculate How Much Crushed Stone You Need for a DIY Job

How much crushed stone do you need to tackle that DIY project? Use this sure-fire formula to figure out the quantity needed, removing the guess work.

Why Are the Sides of Railroad Tracks Always Littered with Crushed Stones?

A look at the composition of the railroad and how it is put together from the ground up reveals a truly impressive feat.

How To Calculate Cubic Yards Mulch Per Square Feet

Here you will find a calculator to help you determine how much mulch you need to cover an area.

5 Secrets Your Contractor Doesn’t Want You to Know

You think of your general contractor as an ally and partner — but he’s a primarily a businessman who may not reveal all his secrets.

Fair Isn't Always Equal: Three Grading Practices to Avoid

If we want student mastery says Rick Wormeli, we must use good performance data to shape instruction. Yet many common grading practices render our data useless.

New children’s book teaches the value of trucking

Standards-Based Grading: A Rose by Any Other Name…

Therefore, whether your school district uses conventional report cards or standards-based ones, I really encourage you to focus on moving your grades, in whatever form you must report them, closer to truly reflecting student learning.

We Are Grading Students, But Are We Grading Ourselves?

As this whirlwind, unprecedented school year comes to a close, many schools are grappling with how to close out their gradebooks for the year.

Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This?

“If I don’t grade it, students won’t do it.” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved …

Honor The Work By Using It, Not Grading It

The work of students should be honored and activities in the classroom should reflect that.

Evaluate The Student And Yourself

The Student You are in your office, or behind the counter of the pro shop, or maybe on the driving range finishing your lesson and waiting for the next lesson. Wherever you are, your lesson starts when you immediately see your student, or students, approaching you. You are now in teaching mode. No words are used as you are analyzing …

The Choss Pile: Stop Grading Climbs

Owen Clarke makes the case for keeping keeping a few climbs without grades at our crags. What do you think?

Graphite Grading Scales Explained

There are two graphite grading scales used to measure the hardness of a pencil's graphite core. Learn more about the graphite grading scales.

How to Spend Less Time Grading

Carefully deciding what to grade and providing students with rubrics can make grading less time-consuming.

Grading Five Years of My Advice on CES

David Berkowitz apologizes for some early takes on CES -- and explains why it's good to be there for an 11th straight year.