Sentences with phrase «book challenging policy»

For this we were required to contact one school library and one public library, and to request that they inform us their book challenging policy, the process if it were to occur, and any history they have of books being banned there.

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Crisis books usually follow a predictable pattern: first a searing depiction of the problem at hand, then some broad and sweeping assessments of how great changes in attitude might begin to address the issue, and then some piddling and timid policy proposals that clearly won't begin to meet the challenge.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

The book examines the challenges to China's rise and discusses their impact and the policy prescriptions available to confront them.

For a more comprehensive look at the state's revenue and budget challenges, see the Fiscal Policy Institute's 2018 - 2019 budget briefing book, which includes a discussion of many other progressive pro-revenue tax proposals which would generate billions of dollars that New York needs to remain competitive in the future.

He has also scoffed at the idea of applying outside income restrictions on statewide elected officials like himself, challenging anyone to identify how those paying his book contract benefited from his policies.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The book challenges the notion that socio - economic rights are not legally enforceable human rights, and sets out the trends in the justiciability of the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy enshrined in Chapter II of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).

He has authored, co-authored, or edited twelve books, including The Genetic Frontier: Ethics, Law and Policy, Good Science and Responsible Scientists: Meeting the Challenge of Fraud and Misconduct in Science, and Evaluating Science and Scientists.

In this edition of the EdCast, Levinson speaks about the book and the cases that inspired it, and looks at challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity in education practice and policy.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

As he explained when addressing International Education Policy (IEP) students last week, Wood took the comment as a challenge and promptly left his job as a senior executive associate for Microsoft, promising to return to Nepal with books.

Written for teacher educators, higher education administrators, policy makers, and others concerned with issues of race, the book is comprised of four parts that each represent a distinct perspective on the struggle for racial justice: contributors reflect on their experiences working as educators of Color to transform the culture of predominately White institutions, navigating the challenges of whiteness within teacher education, building transformational bridges within classrooms, and training current and inservice teachers through concrete models of racial justice.

-- The authors of The Privacy Engineer's ManifestoThe Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value is the first book of its kind, offering industry - proven solutions that go beyond mere theory and adding lucid perspectives on the challenges and opportunities raised with the emerging «personal» information economy.The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems.

As Winograd states, much of this book is about history, beginning with Henry Berg's founding of the ASPCA in 1866 and his commitment to stopping the cruel treatment of city work horses and other animals, to the atrocious policies and conditions of so - called «shelters», to the challenges and successes of the No - Kill movement (through 2005).

Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climatologist immersed in climate science and policy for decades, framed the question a different way in the title of the last chapter of his new book on the climate challenge: «Can Democracy Survive Complexity?»

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

Indeed, Hu's clarion call to Beijing's policy makers reverberates across the pacific where a different visionary, renown journalist and leading globalization commentator Thomas Friedman (in his new book Hot, Flat and Crowded) has also called upon his fellow Americans to turn the challenge of fighting climate change into an opportunity to generate new wealth.

These and other issues are discussed in the Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change, a recent Staff Discussion Note and IMF books Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers and Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates.

Examples of recent cases include the litigation in respect of the child refugees dispersed from the camp in Calais, Osborn in the Supreme Court on the requirements for Parole Board hearings, Sturnham in the Court of Appeal on damages for Article 5 breaches, the series of joined cases concerning reception conditions in Cyprus for asylum seekers, challenges to local authority taxi licensing policy, and challenges to the prison «book ban».

Key Highlight: • Instrumental in improving client base — book of policies by 7 %, despite challenging economic climate.

The guide includes more than 1,000 titles covering the following topics: adoption policy and practice; adoptive family development; tools for helping with challenging adoptions; adoption books for kids; books for adoption workers.