Sentences with phrase «conversation about the failings»

Our lab actively advocates for honest, data - driven conversations about the failings of the current education delivery system, the impact of poverty on student learning, and the necessity for designing and building new systems that guarantee that our twin educational goals of equity and excellence are achieved for each and every child.

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Figure out who you are: Many founding teams fail because they've never had the conversation about founder, founding team and founding CEO.

(Lauer failed to push back on a series of false statements Trump made during that interview, which spurred a broader conversation about journalists» responsibility to factcheck politicians.)

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

That conversation would be enhanced if participants in it took a close look at Paul Collier's suggestive book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It... Continue Reading»

But although the controversy helped bring conversations about abortion back into the cultural spotlight, it appears that much of the outrage failed to make a real or lasting impact on public opinion.

We need a reasoned conversation about existing privacy laws that protect the mentally ill but too often fail to protect our law enforcement officers and our citizens.

But by restricting the conversation only to mothers and / or by failing to clearly and directly address fathers about what's happening, so they might provide much - needed, well - informed support at such a difficult time — aren't we missing an opportunity to ease an intolerable burden of responsibility for women?

Folks on the verge of making those monogamous commitments, need to look at the wreckage around them — all those failed monogamous relationships out there (Schwarzenegger, Clinton, Vitter, whoever's on the cover of US magazine this week)-- and have a conversation about what it'll mean if one or the other partner should cheat.

But yet another conversation with Reid's daycare teachers about how many accidents he's having, (as though I'd totally dropped the ball as his mother) made me consider that perhaps the real issue here is not that I'm failing my son by not potty training him, but that I'm failing him by not advocating for him, for not standing up for the fact that he has every right to listen to his own body and to not feel pressured into trying to meet a milestone he's clearly not ready for.

Any conversation about personal responsibility or public policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

«I don't want to belabor this one incident, because stuff happens, but I do think — as someone who has had his own share of tension with local media about, ahem, different subjects — I may have something to add to the conversation,» said Weiner, a failed Democratic mayoral candidate who resigned from Congress in June 2011 after lying about sending lewd photos and messages to multiple women.

During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to study them in mice.

Body shame is so prevalent in our culture, you might frequently find yourself caught up in other people's body drama — such as a conversation about your sister's failing efforts to stay on Whole30 or your coworker's guilt about gaining a few pounds.

It fails to take into account the fact that, no, not everyone has the personality traits that make talking to strangers a joy; it also doesn't deal with the fact that not everyone wants to have random people start conversations with them when they're out and about.

Pfister's first outing isn't terrible, but its plot is typical Hollywood dystopia that fails to elevate the larger conversation about our increasing dependence upon machines.

If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation concerning topics about which you are passionate.

Yet the same survey indicates that most parents have failed to address and prevent misogyny and sexual harassment in their children's lives: 76 percent of survey respondents — 72 percent of men and 80 percent of women — reported that they never had a conversation with parents about how to avoid sexually harassing others.

«I think we are failing epically to have basic conversations with young people about the subtle, tender generous, demanding work about learning how to love.»

The way the law works is that if 51 % of parents at a failing school sign a petition, they can turn the school into a charter school, replace the staff or simply use the petition as a bargaining chip to initiate a conversation about change.

It is flatly false, however, to suggest that she failed to engage key stakeholders in conversations about the reforms she was proposing.

In my experience Rhee changed the conversation about education reform from one of a very big and gloomy confusion created by the No Child Left Behind Act that all public schools are failing to one about her.

@ccoleiii @audhilly @selmekki we know this nonsensical conversation about «charters» vs. «traditional» schools fails families and kids.

«There's a lot more people involved in the conversation [about students], and that's huge,» said Melissa Doll, who works with middle school students deemed at risk of failing academically.

«I think we are failing epically to have basic conversations with young people about the subtle, tender generous, demanding work about learning how to love,» Harvard Graduate school of Education Senior Lecturer Rick Weissbourd said.

«For example, in Cambridgeshire, where practically all academies are either inadequate or requiring improvement, I know my regional director had a pretty tense conversation with the RSC about what are you going to do about these underperforming academies, the ones that will fail unless you intervene quickly.»

This fascinating, deeply troubling book has the power to spark a national conversation about how our criminal justice system fails victims, and how it can be reformed.»

On Amanda's blog, she remembers a conversation she had with a friend where she vented her frustrations about failing to get a publisher:

Design Lesson: Homestar Ruiner presents iconic representation for its dialogue trees, which fails to inform the player what he is going to talk about and if he has exhausted the conversations on that topic

Your ethics also pretty much failed the test in our conversation about my Skeptic article at your personal blog site.

From «The Unended Quest,» Karl Popper's autobiography (p. 38 pbk): after discussing a conversation he'd had with the «brilliant young student of mathematics» Max Elstein about Einstein's theory of relativity Popper wrote, «But what impressed me most was Einstein's clear clear statement that he would regard his theory as untenable if it should fail in certain tests.

I recall one conversation with an international executive who waved her hand in a regal but dismissive manner as she said that she had heard more than enough about content — what was needed she explained to me was more revenue, not content, completely failing to make the connection between the two.

If the conversation with your personal injury attorney fails, then you should seek a second opinion and contact an experienced personal injury attorney to speak about the special circumstances of your case, and who will provide you with the best course of action.

Our conversations with customers over the years have consistently revealed that Globe fails to inform people about how their policy really works.

This discrepancy may have two causes: either fathers naturally exhibit supportive strategies but are unaware of it, and therefore fail to report it in the questionnaire, or fathers do not spontaneously display such supportive strategies in daily life, but do so when they have a special moment with their children with materials that elicit conversations about emotions.