Sentences with phrase «public conversations about»

Change the conversation And we also need to shift our public conversations about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

«Rooms are for public conversations about topics and interests.

I am optimistic about the future of law, the legal academy, and public conversations about both — I just don't think the future will be blogged.

Eric Michelman, the Seattle - based climate activist behind the campaign, said he started the project to get more climate scientists» voices into public conversations about global warming.

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza into a temporary, 2,000 - square - foot «farm - as - art installation» to encourage public conversations about the role of urban agriculture in strengthening communities.

Our mission is to demonstrate the social, cultural, and educational potentials of videogames by initiating new game development projects, coordinating interdisciplinary research efforts, and informing public conversations about the broader and sometimes unexpected uses of this emerging art form in education.

Give teachers the support and resources they need to lead collaborations with their peers and hold public conversations about changes to existing policy and practice grounded in their experiences with blended learning initiatives.

Public engagement ranges from parent - involvement projects to public conversations about the goals of public education.

The barriers confronting that majority need to be front and center in public conversations about college, he adds.

Public conversations about genetics are more important than ever.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

These might seem depressing days for our public conversations about religion and public life.

American judicial decisions and public conversations about religious freedom, however, tend to focus on individuals» rights, beliefs, consciences, and practices.

Would the effort «matter»; would it help drive the direction of the public conversation about abortion?

Now I work 30 hours a week focusing on the parts of my full - time job that I'd always been most excited about: writing career - related content, creating webinars and videos for job seekers, and furthering the public conversation about work flexibility.

Though this interchange was a small part of Konigsberg's story, the words provoked an uproar from the league, the fans and the media, and it renewed a public conversation about Christian anti-Judaism.

What we are seeing in the attacks this week on Boehner and Ryan is the beginning of a long overdue public conversation about what it means to protect the sanctity of life.

Advances on those fronts just might, as well, reopen the public conversation about the nature of freedom, offering opportunities to challenge the debasement of freedom into willfulness (license) and reconnecting freedom to the true and the good.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.

«We felt the salary recommendations made by the Quadrennial Commission were the starting point of a public conversation about our jobs and our compensation,» they said.

We desperately need to have a public conversation about the role of these systems in the democratic processes.»

It is time for a sustained public conversation about media policy, akin to the ones we have about health care, the economy, defense and the budget.

A global public conversation about preventing such misuses is just getting underway, and this proposal could short - circuit those deliberations.»

«But there's never been a public conversation about feminism or racism or about any of the things that many of us are now much more well versed in, simply because we have access to the information.»

At this exhibition Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2 will be displayed, and Hideo Kojima himself just arrived in Washington DC to participate in a public conversation about his games.

Recently, the non-profit daily ideas exchange known as Zocalo Public Square had an online debate about whether kindness can be taught, as part of a more general public conversation about altruism.

«Through visual transparency — by looking through a window into something interesting happening in a makerspace, robotic lab, or a classroom — you're creating a public conversation about teaching and learning,» says Stephen.

Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

And nearly 80 percent said some students had expressed concern for their well - being because of the charged public conversation about issues such as immigration, health care, the environment, travel bans and LGBTQ rights, it said.

But members of the group Hoosiers Against Common Core praised the proposal, saying this brings about a long - overdue public conversation about the standards.

Much of the public conversation about school quality rests on a reasonable assumption, namely that we can reliably assess school quality by the measures currently in use.

VOICES is curated by the Governing Institute, which seeks out practitioners and observers whose perspective and insight add to the public conversation about state and local government.

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She wrote: ``... the real reason for encouraging novelists to overcome their critical inhibitions is that their contributions help maintain the rigor and vitality of the public conversation about books.»

There is no evident government interest in encouraging a public conversation about shared or differing values.

On the podcast, Austin, Patrick, and Danielle decided it was time to have a public conversation about all this.

Urban and street art is a key focus, including a screening of «Street Heroines,» a documentary about female graffiti and street artists, and in a public conversation about the legacy of 5Pointz.

Prospect New Orleans presents a public conversation about exhibition - making and community engagement.

Schutz joins acclaimed historian and artist Nell Painter at the Cleveland Museum of Art in a public conversation about the possibilities and limitations of painting as a medium at our particular historical and political moment.

On April 28, 2014 Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan and Light and Space pioneer Helen Pashgian took part in a public conversation about Pashgian's career as a sculptor.

The following day, the artist participated in a standing room only public conversation about the exhibition with Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

The festival aims to foster emerging talent, encourage active community participation, and initiate public conversation about photography as an art form, as a means of communication, and as a mode of cultural documentation and social reflection.

One of his paintings is an image of Philando Castille that should have generated a public conversation about police killing black men, but its impact has been muted by the controversy over a Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that also appears in the biennial exhibition.

Enrique Chagoya and Rupert García will engage in a public conversation about their approaches to making politically driven artwork and more at BAMPFA on Friday, April 20 at 6 pm.

Guardian columnist George Monbiot steps out with a great analysis of internet - based astroturfing and the very effective way that it disrupts the public conversation about important (and economically momentous) issues.

Understanding the costs and benefits of different proposals can improve the public conversation about priorities.

Even aside from the reams of evidence in the Striptease documents, Heartland has a long history of mining money from questionable corporate funders and then representing itself as a (taxpayer subsidized) «think tank» - as if its some kind of educational organization contributing to the public conversation about difficult issues.

Saving the garden has helped open up a fresh public conversation about urbanism and street life.

The sort of power the Supreme Court has acknowledged juries have — to be the one official actor in the legal system able to ignore the law in favour of conscience — ought to at least be subject to the scrutiny that results from a public conversation about why and how the jury decided as it did.