Sentences with phrase «debates over the value»

The debate over the value of higher education for aspiring entrepreneurs rages.

On February 15, AEI hosted a debate over the value of education.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

The need for greater accountability and transparency has been fueled by recent debates over the value of a college education.

Japan, having requested that a vote on the small scale coastal whaling proposal be held over for another day, now became embroiled in a spirited debate over the value of killing whales to study them.

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The value and fate of cryptocurrencies has been fiercely debated over the past year.

But perhaps more important, they underestimate the depth of legitimate debate over the way even public - minded MBAs ought to put their values into action when at work.

Taylor Swift refused to put her new album on the platform in 2015 because the company would not restrict it to premium - only users, an incident that sparked heated debate over how music should be valued and whether ad - supported music streaming services pay artists properly.

Once, in a debate over the wisdom of buying the largest battery manufacturer in China, Lemann prevailed on his fellow board members by saying the strategic value of the acquisition outweighed concerns over price.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

The conventional wisdom, then, has it backwards: cultural affinities constitute the long - term basis of electoral alignments, introducing fundamental values into politics and structuring the debate over them, while economic forces generate temporary disruptions of these culturally defined alignments.

To extend the analogy to television, the World Series is a serial drama, like True Detective or Homeland, something that can bore you, thrill you, confuse you, make you debate its value and worth over a long span of time.

While Reinl believes that the «ice age is over,» the article, to its credit, goes on to present the other side of the debate, quoting a number of athletic trainers, and an orthopedic surgeon, as still believing in the value of ice, especially in the period immediately after injury, in order to reduce acute - injury bleeding, relieve post-activity soreness, and for pain relief.

Considering the vigorous warm - up to April 19's other political event — the sports - arena rallies, the debate, the debate over the debate, the rumpus over what constitutes «New York values,» a pizza gaffe, two subway gaffes — it would be understandable if other contests might be overlooked.

Governor Cuomo is siding with Donald Trump over Ted Cruz, after the Texas Senator and presidential candidate derided «New York values» during a heated exchange with native New Yorker Trump in the debate on Fox Business News.

Debate over the tradeoffs and values of how to respond to climate change is appropriate for environmental education, Buhr and other educators say.

With public debate raging over the relative value of fats and carbohydrates, resolution remains a long way off.

Publishers have a massive problem with perception of value CNET) Here's something that tends to get lost in the debate over e-book prices: Paper doesn't cost very much.

Copyright Criminials: The Funky Drummer Edition (2017) Documentary examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.

The chasm between the research on value - added models for teachers and the public debate over them is wide and growing.

He studies topics such as the driver distraction of cell phones, the debates over Mars images, and the educational value of computer simulations of frog dissection.

No one debates whether doctors or lawyers should have to undergo professional training in a university or college environment, but there is still substantial debate over the very value of teacher - training programs.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

Much like the debate over global warming, these non-believers refuse to validate an unassailable fact: standardized testing does have positive — and predictive — value in education and in life, just as the Earth is, indeed, getting warmer.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Quantitative editor Andrew Flowers argued that a key part of the debate is over, and that recent studies have converged on the finding that value - added measures accurately predict students» future test scores.

Spurred by recent debate over the possible unintended negative consequences of such awards on young children, I asked my son how he felt about not receiving an award for honesty or one of the other values again this year.

The head teachers» union also plans to debate issues such as forced academisation, assessment and British values in schools, over the weekend.

The debate over the new systems has often centered on the frequent errors in what's known as value - added measurement, which can lead to effective teachers being misidentified as ineffective, and whether the potential problems for teachers outweigh the potential benefits for students.

The debate over linking student data to teacher evaluations intensified after The Times began a series based on a «value - added» analysis of seven years» worth of scores.

[10] There is debate [11] over whether value - added models accurately capture the true contributions (in statistical parlance, «causal estimates») of schools and teachers as opposed to simply identifying correlational relationships.

In addition to debate over their technical merit, one generally agreed - upon and significant drawback of value - added measures is that they can only apply to teachers in tested grades and subjects.

Setting aside any debate over the validity — or perhaps lack thereof — of gender roles in society, men and women by some measures have been shown to value different attributes while car shopping.

Setting aside any debate over the validity — or perhaps lack thereof — of gender roles in society, men and women by some measures have been shown to value different... Read more

And the value that some consumers place on printed books can still be seen in the ongoing debate over what prices should be for books, both print and digital.

In the never - ending debate over whether certain sources of outperformance — such as value and momentum — arise from risk or mispricing, for our purposes, it actually doesn't matter!

This is always a debate among value investors: Is it better to look for asset based investments like Graham / Schloss and other deep value school, or is it better to strive for great businesses at reasonable prices that are almost certain to compound intrinsic value over time?

If Donegal ends up (willingly, or unwillingly) cashing out, debate over revenue growth vs. margins becomes moot — the substantial value creation I see from MMM in the next 5 years simply evaporates.

«A new article by Dr. Craig L. Israelsen titled, This piece of evidence could derail the growth vs. value debate, opened my eyes to the huge differences similar indices earn over similar periods of time.

Press Release WASHINGTON, March 4 US Newswire - In the emerging public debate over what type of mortgage products are best for American consumers, the Homeownership Alliance today reiterated the extraordinary value that thirty - year, fixed - rate prepayable mortgages provide homeowners and the U.S. economy as a whole.

Screening for value This Value Institute article focuses on the debate over whether the best source of generating good investment ideas is screening the market, or to take a more Buffett - like qualitative apprvalue This Value Institute article focuses on the debate over whether the best source of generating good investment ideas is screening the market, or to take a more Buffett - like qualitative apprValue Institute article focuses on the debate over whether the best source of generating good investment ideas is screening the market, or to take a more Buffett - like qualitative approach.

The valuation methods of these points can be debated over and over but I believe that the exact valuation of these points you go by isn't as important as how much you value the transfer partners when valuing the points.

We then proceed to cry over Microsoft letting Heavy Rain slip through their fingers and debate whether or not the Redmond company are right in calling the # 429.99 price point a «complete value proposition.»

Jon and Destiny debated for over two hours, mostly about race and immigration, and Jon made several unpopular comments, including the claim that mass Mexican migration to the United States was a form of «reconquista,» a retaking of American cultural values.

Over the years a major debate has raged between fans of traditional entertainment mediums such as films and TV, and fans of video games, namely over the artistic value of a game when compared to a movie, book, or TV sOver the years a major debate has raged between fans of traditional entertainment mediums such as films and TV, and fans of video games, namely over the artistic value of a game when compared to a movie, book, or TV sover the artistic value of a game when compared to a movie, book, or TV show.

In a sense the IAE question recalls a similar debate over abstract art at mid-century, hinging on whether abstraction could truly be free of political values.

In subsequent decades, the project instigated critical debates over definitions of folk art, artistic value, and authenticity; the relationship between academically trained African American and black folk artists; and the framing of such marginalized artists within the artistic mainstream.

Few countries have witnessed more controversy over the value of post-modernist artworks than Britain, where the Turner Prize continues to arouse huge debate between the avant - garde and the rest.

Indeed, the climate debate is not exactly a «conflict over values,» unless one of them is «greed.»