Sentences with phrase «debate about the purpose»

The school system currently in place evolved over centuries of back - and - forth debate about the purpose of education, the best way to prepare children for their futures and the right way to test and evaluate kids, schools and states.

Today, debates about the purpose and provision of education — on the left and the right alike — are reduced to platitude - laden charges that it is up to schools to do what the social reformers of the 1960s could not accomplish through entitlements, social - welfare programs, or other Great Society initiatives.

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.

The resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard as chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), and her replacement by Professor Alexis Jay, the fourth chair since the inquiry was established in 2014, has generated much debate about the purpose, structure and future of the inquiry.

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As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

Its sole purpose was to provide updated economic and fiscal projections, to be used as a starting point for a debate about the upcoming budget.

Theology is important — we need to strive to understand God, but we must strive to do so with the purpose of knowing Him more and loving Him more, not so that we can participate in debates about doctrine.

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature of reality and the purpose of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.

The second paragraph of the WSJ story states, «' I don't want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose was to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance,» said Ms. Parker, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor.»

But if the purpose was to provide a panorama of opinions about the pastoral letter, these parochialisms may have contributed to the book's failure to present any substantive debate.

Those of us who believe in a Creator may be said to have an edge in deciphering the matter, but even then there are endless debates about what our Creator's purposes are for His creation, how those purposes are to be fulfilled, etc, etc, etc...

There is plenty of debate ongoing about the pros and cons of congestion pricing - but little discussion yet about the purpose of creating such a large flow of money — $ 1 - $ 1.5 billion a year — that logically must be a way to fund the next MTA capital plan.

That approach works fine for all practical purposes, but physicists and philosophers still engage in vigorous debates today about the true physical status of the wave function.

Furthermore, stem cells with perhaps even greater potential for therapeutic purposes are present in and retrievable from blastocytes â $» embryonic stem cells â $» and understandably, a heated debate about their use has developed.

Thus, in the past five years, much of the scientific and ethical debate about somatic cell nuclear transfer has focused on its two potential applications: 1) for reproductive purposes, i.e., to produce a child, or 2) for producing a source of ES cells for research.

A long - standing debate about what human beings should eat, given our very long digestive tract, isn't the purpose of this article.

Earlier this month, Nancy Jo Sales» profile of multiple Tinder users in New York City sparked a lot of debate about the app's reputation and true purpose.

The only problem is that America is still in the process of a widespread national debate about gun control, so when absolutely nothing is made of the case at the heart of the story to make room for the chases and behind - closed - doors intrigue, the issue becomes a mere afterthought, which Runaway Jury indifferently exploits for the purpose of escapism.

My purpose in writing about them is to encourage more creative thinking and debate about how we use our limited resources to advance the twin goals of equity and excellence.

The debate is about the fundamental purpose of education: for the Sophists, the goal is power — economic, political, and social.

Spending time and energy debating semantics about one of 22 sub-ratings does not serve this purpose.

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle - grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle - grades education.

Debates about the potential role technology will play in the social studies are grounded in deeper discussions about the purpose and meaning of schooling.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

If it were part of the government budget, they would reflect a democratic process in which Canadians, through their elected representatives, debated about how much would be collected, from whom, how the money would be distributed, and for what purposes.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

This should stimulate a wider debate about forensic skills within law degrees and continuing professional development and whether legal education is still «fit for purpose».

Although there is a very spirited debate in Canadian society about the decriminalization or even legalization of marijuana, police and the federal prosecution service continue to crack down on all manner of drug offences, including simple possession, possession for the purposes of trafficking, trafficking, production, importation and related money offences like laundering and proceeds of crime.

There is an ongoing debate in the financial services industry about the usefulness of variable annuities and the purpose they serve in an individual's financial portfolio.

As the list of countries in which the U.S. is engaged in hostilities grows (Niger has joined the list since last report), and the purpose of U.S. intervention in some of these places blurs (the report reminds us that while ISIS has lost 98 % of the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria, and will soon have lost 100 %, we're planning to keep bombing in Syria after that nonetheless), we've increasingly replaced a difficult conversation about the adequacy of international security policy with an easier (if ultimately misguided) debate about the adequacy of international security law.

What began as a conversation about dollars and profit margins quickly turned into a debate over the Great Recession, and the benefits of transforming an organization primarily driven by profit into an organization led by purpose - driven employees.