Sentences with phrase «benefits than debating»

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

Not exact matches

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

Rather than debate their utility, we should focus on how we can minimise the pain of the inevitable adjustment and maximise the benefits of our resource economy for all Canadians.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

We need to build appealing subcultures rather than advance our own version of the Great Society or spend all of our energy on roiling national debates that stand far apart from the everyday experience of those Americans who could most benefit from what we have to offer.

Its health benefits are up to debate but I like using it more than vegetable oils or olive oil.

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

On the other side of the debate, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that the benefits for the infant in terms of reduced risk of infection, adult obesity, allergies, and asthma are so great that breastfeeding must be viewed as an «investment in your child's future» rather than a «lifestyle choice.»

Trump's dismissal of Shulkin, and the nomination of a Navy doctor with no known policy views to take his place, has brought renewed focus to an increasingly contentious debate over whether to give veterans the option of using the benefits they earned through military service to see private doctors rather than going to government hospitals and clinics.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

A study in this week's Scientific Reports by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and in China add more fuel to the already hot debate about whether electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly than conventional vehicles by uncovering two hidden benefits.

Further, Stewart found that laughter benefited secondary candidates more than front - runners in televised debates by improving their likability among viewers.

Rates have already been low for several years, and there's much debate about the benefits and costs of the Fed's policies — including the message it sends that the economy's recovery is slower than expected.

On average, teachers enjoy considerably larger pension benefits and health - care packages than do comparable professionals in the private sector, a point of contention in recent policy debates.

Roebuck went on to specify the social and political benefits of an educated populace, including the possibility of reasoned debate rather than «a stack - burning peasantry or sturdy pauper population,» and «a people industrious, honest, tolerant, and happy.»

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

In the dog world it's almost as debated as dog training methods, but as concerns about parvovirus rise across the UK, you may be left more confused than ever as to whether your dog will or won't benefit.

The greater number of deaths in winter (in the UK) compared to the summer, better crops due to a longer season and increased «plant» food are two obvious areas of debate, as are the economic benefits by having lower priced energy than will be the case with renewables.

The other issue is that often the hot issues in the public debate are not all that well suited to the short journal publication route, and there is benefit to putting the material out there in the public domain quickly, rather than waiting for the cumbersome peer review process.

In fact, there's no clear convenience benefit to plastic bags versus paper or reusable bags, reusable bags can be re-used many times more than plastic bags, and the energy question is still very much up for debate.

I focus on the probability that carbon pricing schemes will succeed rather than debating the various estimates of the projected costs and benefits; the latter are extensively debated in the literature.

sawed in half the global warming illusion that the formerly mainstream media had sold as reality, all of a sudden there's massive upheaval: dogs and cats living together; news networks hosting climate debates; CBS exposing taxpayer - funded boondoggle junkets to Copenhagen; and politicians (other than Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe) boldly denouncing fraudulent research about the «benefits» of «solutions» to global warming.

This, along with wildly exaggerated climate damage scenarios, is needed to justify aggressive short - term interventions such as the Al Gore or Stern proposals.14 Since calculated net benefit results for a two - hundred - year horizon are extremely sensitive to the choice of a discount rate, the debate over the discount rate is far more than technical.

We should certainly fashion a climate policy that will maximize the economic benefit associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and what that policy should look like is a valid debate in which all who would like to participate are more than welcome.

This allows the appropriate cost benefit analysis (maybe this is getting to far into politics) that should be significantly more useful for the main debate than these temperature predictions that we have and takes many unpredictable factors out of the equation and if we have a full chain of logic it should be easier to find — because time as opposed to amount of carbon related models leave you asking questions like «what will happen to technology»

Having listened to both sides of the anthropomorphic global warming debate, I find no evidence that a doubling of CO2 will harm the planet — there's good reason to believe that the very slight warming that will result will benefit more people than not.

The key benefits of such injunctions were the speed with which the English courts can decide upon the issue of jurisdiction and the ability to have the debate over jurisdiction in English rather than a foreign language without the need to instruct legal advisers in another country.