Sentences with phrase «public agenda study»

Researcher John Immerwahr, who led the Public Agenda study, noted that of the 39 university trustees interviewed anonymously for the study, just two represented private universities with high research activities whose profiles would be similar to Penn's.

By contrast, according to another Public Agenda study, 86 percent of the public and 73 percent of teachers want students to memorize the multiplication tables and to learn to do math by hand before using calculators.

The same Public Agenda study quoted one New Jersey union representative: «I've gone in and defended teachers who shouldn't even be pumping gas.»

Not exact matches

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

Distinctions between synthetic and natural vitamin A have been absent in the extensive media coverage of this study — on the contrary, the newspaper reports contain implied warnings against pregnant women eating liver, dairy products, meat and eggs, but none against eating fabricated foods like margarine and breakfast cereals to which synthetic vitamin A is added — and one is moved to ask if there might be a hidden agenda in bringing these results before the public.

He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the result of higher levels leading to a deficiency of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition Research Agenda.

The study released last week by Public Agenda also found that teachers share the public's support for higher academic standards, but do not rank such standards among their highest priorPublic Agenda also found that teachers share the public's support for higher academic standards, but do not rank such standards among their highest priorpublic's support for higher academic standards, but do not rank such standards among their highest priorities.

But they are wrong to suppress from public view studies on voucher competition simply because the findings don't match their policy agenda.

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«Pence's K through 12 education agenda has had serious, deleterious consequences for public education,» Bob Arnove, the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Indiana University, told Business Insider.

For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

Running on Empty pulls together information gathered from studies and polls from nonpartisan organizations such as Public Agenda and the Associated Press.

This was a nationwide study prepared by Public Agenda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased public opinion research, for The Pew Charitable TPublic Agenda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased public opinion research, for The Pew Charitable Tpublic opinion research, for The Pew Charitable Trusts.

http://goo.gl/kcr7l (Ed Week) or a copy of the study http://goo.gl/VpqwN (Public Agenda)

I don't care a whit about academic studies... and neither should you or the public... unless you have a political agenda.

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?