Sentences with phrase «examine underlying assumptions»

The longer low - performing schools faced the threat of sanctions, the less apt they were to examine their underlying assumptions and current practices — and pull together to improve them (Finnigan, Daly, & Che, 2012).

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However, his talk examined how the normative assumptions underlying this new focus seem to retain the neoliberal emphasis on the promotion and facilitation of private business activity as the animating goal of law.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certain conditions.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time...

Upping the Ante of Text Complexity in the Common Core State Standards: Examining Its Potential Impact on Young Readers Educational Researcher, January / February 2013 Researchers examine the theoretical and empirical support for assumptions underlying the CCSS's acceleration of text complexity in grades 2 - 3 and identify patterns in American reading achievement and instruction in order to illustrate the consequences of an increase in the first step of the CCSS staircase of text complexity levels.

In the first phase, I use observations of public meetings, interviews with community stakeholders, and analysis of local media coverage to examine the shifting understandings, assumptions, and norms underlying debates over school desegregation in rapidly gentrifying areas of New York City.

The remainder of this letter explains why I believe this is so by examining some of the underlying assumptions of MCT.

Part 1: Dr. Kate Hurley examines the assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compares them to the most recent evidence - based information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an unsocialized cat taken into a shelter.

In this webcast, Dr. Hurley will examine assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compare them to the most recent evidence - based information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an unsocialized cat taken into a shelter.

Both cases — a «Brief Comment Arising» in Nature (that I led) and a new paper from Proistosescu and Huybers (2017)-- examine basic assumptions underlying previously published estimates of climate sensitivity and find them wanting.

Let's look briefly at some of the underlying socio - economic assumptions behind RCP8.5, then we'll examine how the latest research on the terrestrial carbon cycle makes the GHG concentrations in the RCP8.5 model easier to reach.