Sentences with phrase «academic debate about»

Gardner no doubt thinks it is, and he and I could have an academic debate about that as psychologists.

Though academic debate about mathematics curricula will no doubt continue, the field of argument is increasingly muddied by politics.

The study contributes to a long - running academic debate about why other hominins, including our immediate ancestors, had gigantic brow ridges while anatomically modern humans evolved flatter foreheads.

Numerous articles weigh in on the political and academic debates about funding universal pre-K, but the more interesting and basic question at hand is what we're asking of pre-K.

Not exact matches

Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.

That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.

A fierce debate among academics about secularization theory — the view that societies will become less religious as they modernize — seems to have been won by the skeptics.

The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

With the exam safely behind me I'm back to blogging, but still have academic IR debates on the mind, so today I want to write about what the history of early 20th century European relations can tell us about the continent's current political economy.

What is fascinating about this evolution — and especially most of the academic analysis (and in some cases advocacy) of it has been the degree to which it has ignored wider debates about presidential versus parliamentary forms of government.

Steve Keen, along with Nouriel Rubini as a non neoliberal economist states, «The first thing that the global financial crisis should therefore do to economics is to galvanise student protest about the lack of debate within academic economics itself, because dissident academic economists will be unable to shift the tuition of economics themselves without massive pressure from the student body».

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

Still, good government groups, academics, and many others maintain that debates serve a vital role in elections, giving voters the opportunity to become better informed about the candidates.

This creates a puzzle for academics: the ambiguity about whether donations are rewards or incentives — as well as the sheer multitude of factors that affect politicians» decisions — has led to inconclusive evidence about the influence of money in debates like this.

But with a wave of more sophisticated social robots about to hit the mass market, the debate is no longer academic.

Debates about the psychology of memory are normally the stuff of arid academic texts.

By drawing attention to this tension, the author aims to contribute to a growing debate about incentive systems in academic science and their unexpected negative side effects.

The final activity was a Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)(based on the work of Johnson and Johnson) where students assumed roles as different interest groups and then debated the merits of this issue, using the skills and rhetorical strategies we had learned about along the way.

My hope is that this exercise helps spur conversation about which university - based academics are contributing most substantially to public debates over education and ed policy, and how they do so.

Debate continues about the range of academic, social, and other types of knowledge and skills that young people will need to succeed as workers, citizens, and family and community members in a global world.

Yet the question of winners and losers in this debate about our secondary schools is, to borrow a phrase, academic.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

There has been much debate about the appropriateness and practicality of attributing academic staff time to activities.

Dr. Sapon - Shevin: Providing students with disabilities with «relentless, intensive instruction» may improve their academic skills, although there is even debate about the academic effectiveness of segregated pull - out programs.

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In my view, the hardly debated proficiency standards are vastly more important than the curricular or core academic standards about which the policy wonks and politicians talk endlessly.

Although academics, including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and education researchers, have waged fierce debates about what these different needs are — some talk about multiple intelligences and learning styles whereas others point to research that undermines these notions — what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace.

The policies have stirred debates about the purpose of issuing academic grades and whether they should be used to punish, motivate or purely represent what students have learned in class.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

There's debate about whether any public schools should use admission criteria such as arts auditions (or, in the case of San Francisco's Lowell High School, academic criteria).

With the debate over a new set of nationally - crafted academic standards at a crossroads in Indiana, the results of a newly - released survey show many outside of education - policymaking circles know much at all about the Common Core.

Offering teachers incentives of up to $ 15,000 to improve student test scores produced no discernible difference in academic performance, according to a study released Tuesday, a result likely to reshape the debate about merit pay programs sprouting in D.C. schools and many others nationwide.

We are fourteen academics who will use this space to discuss and debate issues not just for specialists but for anyone who cares about creating good policies in these areas.

Third, it is a series of academic articles defending and attacking the Kelly Criterion — it will have a very specific audience that cares about the academic side of the debate.

Animal Ethics was formed to carry out outreach to provide information about the reasons to respect all animals, to promote discussion and debate about issues in animal ethics and among academics and scientists and to do research and provide resources for animal advocates.

We are fourteen academics who will use this space to discuss and debate issues not just for specialists but for anyone who cares about creating good policies in these areas.

So I really see this debate about GW and bigger storms as sort of academic....

If sceptics were taken more seriously, if there was a debate... if there was a political, or academic culture which accepted debate... Cardiff wouldn't produce such rank pseudo-science, and social scientists in Nottingham could be more confident about the definition of «space in the ecosystem of climate change discourse», but probably would chose his words — and his coordinates — more carefully.

Second, I've increasingly noticed that much of the debate about climate is happening outwith academic circles.

To the public, a debate about tenths of a degree in temperature may seem specious and academic.

The FBI needs to read about the well - documented history of the nuclear winter debate and consult with government scientists and academics before they publish sly denunciations of some of the most famous Western climate scientists.

More broadly, the debate there is over whether law school should be a «trade school» or rather a place of scholarship where students gain academic and theoretical insights about the law.

Just a month ago, I posted here about the debate among legal and academic bloggers over whether the co-author of Bush Administration memoranda condoning torture should be allowed to retain his professorship at the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law.

Canada is going through its own debate about the separation between the executive / legislature and the judiciary, and legal academics and politicians are already weighing in.

As for the aforementioned New York Times piece about Peltz's lawsuit, it concludes with what may be a classic case of understatement: «The Arkansas case could do more than give law students practical experience before they take the bar; it could also renew debate about free speech on campus and academic freedom.»

It's called The BCLI / Boughton Great Debate and its put on every year in Vancouver by the British Columbia Law Institute and Boughton Law Corp. as a witty debate about law reform performed in a lighthearted and amusing manner in a room filled with judges, lawyers, and legal acadDebate and its put on every year in Vancouver by the British Columbia Law Institute and Boughton Law Corp. as a witty debate about law reform performed in a lighthearted and amusing manner in a room filled with judges, lawyers, and legal acaddebate about law reform performed in a lighthearted and amusing manner in a room filled with judges, lawyers, and legal academics.