Sentences with phrase «despite widespread calls»

As the report notes, despite widespread calls for connecting evidence of new teachers» effectiveness back to their preparation programs, «there has been no coordinated effort to provide these programs with valid, reliable, timely, and comparable data about the [educators] they prepare» (p. 2).

However, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International and former editor of the News of the World, has been allowed to keep her job despite widespread calls for her to be sacked.

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Earlier this morning, Republican gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio called on AG Andrew Cuomo to investigate the developers of the Cordoba Mosque, which is set to be built in lower Manhattan despite widespread criticism.

Despite the intrigue surrounding Litvinenko's death, the poison that killed him, a rare radioactive isotope called polonium 210, is far more widespread than many of us realize: people worldwide smoke almost six trillion cigarettes a year, and each one delivers a small amount of polonium 210 to the lungs.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

It's a nifty feature, but a) requires a reading system to implement a non-standard format before they even come into play, b) requires reading systems to support bindings call (which isn't widespread despite being a requirement), and c) requires triplicating your content as you'll probably want a last case static HTML fallback for reading systems that don't support scripting and / or bindings.