Sentences with phrase «american public claims»

In our own survey, 37 percent of the American public claims to pay either «a great deal» or «quite a bit» of attention to issues involving education, while 54 percent of the affluent and an overwhelming 84 percent of teachers do so.

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«[Today the FCC] seizes unilateral authority to regulate internet conduct, to direct where internet service providers put their investments, and to determine what service plans will be available to the American public,» Pai thundered, claiming that Obama had «told» the commission to do so.

In recent weeks the American public has been inundated with reports claiming the U.S., the U.K., and France have conclusive evidence that Syrian President...

Abortion was sold to the American public in the early 1970s with a long series of claims about its future social benefits.

Until quite recently, Americans have debated the issues of public morality in theological terms which they thought had something to do with truth claims.

In fact, the Public Religion Research Institute's most recent study claims that twenty - one percent of Americans identify as «nones.»

A recent National Catholic Reporter editorial railed against the group «Evangelicals and Catholics Together,» claiming it is detrimental to American public life.

CNN would be the first organization to condemn stereotyping of Muslims, but are all too willing to pick a few examples and then claim to present a clear picture of Christianity to the American public when in fact they are presenting anti-Christian propaganda.

The claim that there are more than thirty million Americans «living in poverty» only intensifies the distrust that is corrupting our public life and distracting attention from the very real problem of poverty in this country.

It is as readily found in the editorials of the Nation (which have routinely claimed that the war on drugs is a war on black America), as in the public utterances of literary icons like Toni Morrison, who told Time magazine that the only thing binding America together as a nation is its racism toward American blacks.

If the recovery of this historic Protestant ethic is vital at this moment of unprecedented numerical presence, public visibility, and social responsibility, then the historic churches, and above all those that lay claim to the Reformed heritage, must first of all rediscover their own past and apply it creatively to the Latin American present.

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

A Chinese - American congresswoman lashed out at a Brooklyn pol for making head - scratching claims about Asians moving into public housing in droves.

He tells us that for five years from 1903, the claims of Wilbur and Orville Wright to have flown a machine that was heavier than air were derided and dismissed by Scientific American, in spite of «scores of public demonstrations, affidavits from local dignitaries, and photographs...» Apparently, what the Wrights had done was considered scientifically impossible and so all their evidence was ridiculed.

The analysis gives the public access to information that would previously have been restricted to national intelligence agencies, and confirms an American claim that a Chinese nuclear test is imminent.

Anonymous claims of NASA evidence for alien life: In June, the global hacking collective Anonymous released a video claiming that NASA had evidence that alien life exists and is hiding it from the American public.

But now there is a new charge against carbon dioxide that may strike more deeply at the heart of American public opinion: The claim that it promotes obesity.

Some critics claim that even whole grains, long the sweetheart of the American Heart Association, are public health enemy No. 1.

Mount Clemens» new claim to fame is its participation in a nationally watched experiment intended to revitalize American public education.

First is the claim that school choice is unnecessary since most Americans are pleased with their public schools.

The publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 alarmed citizens with its claim that the American public education system was failing.

Its basic claim was that the American standard of living was threatened by the loss of major manufacturing industries — such as automobiles, machine tools, and steel mills — to other nations, which the commission attributed to the mediocre quality of our public educational system; this claim shifted the blame from shortsighted corporate leadership to the public schools.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

Second, we believe that claims made on the basis of this flawed study feed the false hopes of many Americans, including policymakers, educators, and the general public, that we can find a single, simple solution, such as directly teaching phonics, to the real and complex problem of improving the reading of young children in high poverty schools.

Gates foundation grants to promote this work: The Center on the Future of American — think tank at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, claims to focus on excellence, equity, and efficiency in K - 12 and higher education.

By asserting the role of public black colleges in institutionalizing black claims to citizenship and democratizing higher education in the South, this dissertation underscores the significance of historically black colleges and universities in American life.

'» 55 In the 1990's, education researcher David Labaree claimed that financial success has become the driving force of American education above happiness, humanistic goals or public rationales.56

As we all likely know well by now, speakers for both parties during last and this weeks» Republican and Democratic Conventions, respectively, spoke and in many cases spewed a number of exaggerated, misleading, and outright false claims about multiple areas of American public policy... educational policy included.

That said, the truth is hardly a concern when it comes to the slick marketing and public relations tactics of the charter school industry and their allies in the corporate education reform movement who consistently — and wrongly — claim that American public education is a failure.

An October 2017 Erika Christakis piece claiming that Americans have «given up» on public schools came under intense heat from a variety of directions.

It has always been understood in the American experience that public schools are crucially linked to claims on citizenship — 2nd class schools imply 2nd class citizenship.

Ravitch covers quite a bit of terrain: the recent history of school reform, the major players in the reform movement, the claims used to criticize American public education, the «fixes» championed by reformers and Ravitch's suggestions for a more sane and productive education policy.

But my grand, unifying theory, the thing that determines how all the other stuff hangs together, basically rests on two claims: 1) there are enormous systemic inequities built into American public education, and 2) the decentralization of U.S. political institutions makes rapid policy - driven...

Is this really about protecting the American reading public from the untouchable monopoly of Amazon as Schumer claims, or is there more at stake?

Artist's Voice: History's Claim (90:00) Lynne Cooke, Curator, Dia Art Foundation Gary Garrels, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chief Curator, Hammer Museum Pip Laurenson, Head of Time - Based Media Conservation, Tate Anne Wagner, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley Glenn Wharton, Conservator of Modern Art Chair: Carol Mancusi - Ungaro, Associate Director of Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art

Following up on the news whirlwind that was the uncovering of false claims made in Mike Daisey's This American Life piece on conditions at Apple manufacturer Foxconn's factory in China, American Public Media's Marketplace program sent reporter Rob Schmitz to get a first hand look at what life was really like for workers.

The public has been misled by climate change advocates about the real reason behind the melting of Antarctica's western ice sheet, claims the website American News.

Portraying Dr Mann falsely as producing fraudulent science they are hoping to cast doubt in the minds of the public who can not tell the difference between one study from the thousands that make up the case for AGW and the false claims that false science is harming the «American way of life» which apparently is non negotiable.

The American Chemistry Council denies any undue influence over the drafting of the curriculum, claiming its comments were submitted during the public comment phase, along with several other organizations.

U.S. public agreement with the view that human activities have caused global warming, now 57 %, has waxed and waned over the past decade, despite a steady increase in the percentage of Americans claiming they understand the issue well.

As the American public becomes acquainted with images of tar sands flowing across lawns, driveways and streets of an Arkansas suburb near Little Rock (for video of the spill go here), Exxon is now making the claim that the crude spilled from its ruptured Pegasus pipeline isn't technically tar sands.

In American Electric Power v. Connecticut, several states and New York City sued energy companies, claiming that their contributions to climate change were a public nuisance.

Read more about coal pollution: Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $ 100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills Coal Costs US Public Up to $ 500 Billion Annually: Harvard Study Study Claim: Up To 20 % Of US Coal - Fired Generating Capacity May Be «Retired» Over Coming Decade

«Although proponents of expanded Grand Canyon mining cite American energy independence, a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands.

As a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and inductee into the International Society of Barristers, Eric Kahn handles a broad spectrum of significant and complex claim including automobile negligence, trucking accident, construction site accidents, product liability claims, medical malpractice cases, and claims against public entities.

Professor Roark's current projects consider how space claiming in public forges collective identity; how Starbucks payment methods shape consumer remedy expectations; and how the morality of law is described and dismissed in early American cases.

'' [NCWO Chair Martha] Burk announced that she would spend the next 12 months working with the public advocacy law firm Mehri and Skalet of Washington, D.C., to investigate claims of discrimination brought by women at eight Wall Street firms: Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Co., Prudential Financial, Franklin Templeton Investments, American Express, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge in Boston to allow public release of documents in a student group's suit claiming bias against Asian - Americans in the admissions process.

Our lawyers defend claims under the public accommodation provisions of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and provide assistance with onsite inspections, dispute resolution, and navigating ADA Accessibility Guidelines when workplace modifications are required.

Represented scores of individuals in lawsuits against their former employers regarding claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, and other protected classes and activities in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), California Family Rights Act (CFRA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), American Disabilities Act (ADA), and public policy.