Sentences with phrase «drawing lessons from»

Part V analyzes the prospects of using litigation to reform prisoner isolation in Canada by drawing lessons from the US experience, where litigation has brought hidden practices to the public's attention and awoken moral sensibilities, sowing the seeds for negotiated reform with elected officials and correctional administrators.

This guidance document focuses on drawing lessons from a few transition experiences in order to analyse how successfully (or not) these processes were managed in the past and how future transitions might be handled in a just manner.

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Drawing lessons from the 1929 stock market crash, Graham gives examples of the market's tendency to under - value out - of - favour securities.

Also, the length of time the program had been in place in each country is not addressed and the unknown intensity of program implementations argue against drawing lessons from this study.

A key challenge in drawing lessons from foreign studies is that there are many economic and cultural factors that also affect student achievement, besides the design of the school system itself.

RELEVANT looks at the ancient tradition of Ash Wednesday, drawing lessons from the church calendar and exploring why the day still has meaning for the church today.

Mr. Mulcair appears to be drawing lessons from this year's Ontario election campaign, where provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was widely criticized from the left for not supporting a campaign for a $ 14 minimum wage in Ontario.

Robertson studied as much self - management theory as he could, drawing lessons from a variety of techniques and philosophies.

Kirby declined to comment on the report's details but acknowledged the danger posed by «insider threats» and that the military had drawn lessons from its experience in Afghanistan, where some NATO troops have been attacked and killed by Afghans in uniform.

If you want to measure he effects of high government spending and wealth redistribution, there are plenty of other examples to draw lessons from.

The authoritative insider also emphasized that an imbalance is not such a bad thing, as those regions, industries and enterprises that manage to stand out will become prosperous, while those that lag behind can draw lessons from their failures.

Despite profound skepticism on the part of many in the curia, John Paul pressed forward at the eve of the new millennium with plans for a series of reflections that might allow the world «to draw lessons from the past,» so as to choose life in what had become a culture of darkness.

Jesus drew a lesson from a fig tree.

In that case it is possible — should be possible — to draw some lessons from what is currently going on in American religion.

Before moving on to a «fresh study and interpretation» should we not draw lessons from, and be prepared to be admonished by, various older methods of Biblical readings and follow - up mission methodologies, which had such a great impact on our land?

It draws lessons from two pilot projects, which ran from 2000 until 2003 in Wolverhampton and Rotherham, and which aimed to support young fathers to enable them to keep in touch with their children.

As we are approaching a key electoral year, with the elections of the European Parliament as well as with national elections in several countries including Germany, it is about time to draw some lessons from what happened in Europe and to envisage a possible way to move forward.

In contrast to most mainstream contemporary political scientists Lebow goes back to the writings of ancient Greeks, among others Thucydides, Socrates, Homer, Plato, Aristotle to draw lessons from their wisdom.

In contrast to many contemporary political scientists Lebow goes back to the ancient Greeks — such as Thucydides, Socrates, Homer, Plato, Aristotle — to draw lessons from their writings.

«The President is hopeful that all will draw lessons from the events leading to the conviction of the three persons and bear in mind the consequences of injudicious utterances.»

He added: «I'm saying we're not trying to repeat history, we're not trying to draw lessons from history.

Although Mandelson's remarks are a commentary on the success of Blair, it is clear he wants Ed Miliband's team to draw lessons from his electoral success.

We all have to draw lessons from that.

David Miliband and Douglas Alexander have just spent a lengthy time in the US at the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions trying to draw lessons from them for the Labour Party.

Although vulnerable individuals like Markingson often participate in clinical trials, the authors of the review worried that Minnesota had not drawn lessons from that case.

Guided by a passionate leader, a new research institute hopes to draw lessons from Buddhism to study altruism and make the world a better place.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, panelists will examine economic, environmental, political and historical issues in addition to those of health and medicine to draw lessons from the current outbreak and devise methods to prevent modern plagues going forward.

You can draw lessons from these and apply it to your specific questions as you see fit.

It's always tempting to see the first week of critics» awards as a bellwether of what's to come in awards season, to draw lessons from each new round of kudos.

To recount and draw lessons from that experience, Fordham president (and Education Next senior editor) Chester Finn, Fordham vice president for Ohio policy and programs Terry Ryan, and veteran journalist Michael Lafferty authored the new book from which this article is adapted.

Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd's When Schools Compete builds on this resemblance to draw lessons from New Zealand's experience that will help Americans mimic its successes and avoid its flaws if we quickly move toward a major expansion of charters and choice.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

The exact shape of this next generation of education policy is still far from clear — but it is not too soon to think about how we have arrived at this point, and to draw lessons from what has and has not worked.

Shep Melnick (Boston College) and James Ryan (University of Virginia School of Law) draw lessons from judicial efforts to promote school desegregation and civil rights.

As states take over responsibility for addressing their low - performing schools, they can draw lessons from some SIG successes.

We hope to constantly improve our own evaluation as the CEP draws lessons from around the USA.

Does the author draw lessons from the band and orchestra classes at his school that are pertinent to your school setting?

The brief «draws lessons from distinct approaches by Chiefs for Change members — Louisiana, New Mexico, and Tennessee — to elevate the teaching profession,» and...

When he accepted the job, he was part of a rising educational reform movement that drew lessons from the corporate world, like increasing parent choice through innovations like charter schools, weakening traditional union protections like tenure and bringing numbers - based accountability to schools to evaluate and rank them and to improve teaching.

We can put an end to our edu - masochism: If researchers spend more effort on assessing our own states» successes and failures in improving student performance and less on trying to draw lessons from countries with very different social and educational contexts, they are sure to spark a much more productive national educational policy debate than we have had in the past decade.

On Tuesdays, I draw lessons from science fiction, fantasy, and myth.

Self - Editing for Fiction Writers is most useful for narrative non-fiction writers (memoir, biography, etc.), but any beginning non-fiction writer can draw lessons from it.

Aggie's first how - to book held at least two Amazon bestseller categories steady for its first sixteen months and Aggie draws lessons from this success to help other authors.

We take a deep dive into the history of the equity / bond relationship, and draw lessons from the 1969 - 70 recession.

Five years later, an evaluation was conducted in six communities to observe changes and draw lessons from this approach.

Still, you can draw some lessons from recent lawsuits against other businesses.

The research drew lessons from paleoclimate studies of the Last Glacial Maximum, the cold peak of the last ice age, that relate to the extent of warmth possible in an era of accumulating greenhouse gases:

«Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.