Sentences with phrase «expand public thinking»
Space to think: Using metaphor to expand public thinking about criminal justice reform.
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I think the internet does open up a vast world of new possibilities for political involvement, such as the UK Public Engagement Deficit Reduction Project that is using Facebook as a platform for expanding public involvPublic Engagement Deficit Reduction Project that is using Facebook as a platform for expanding public involvpublic involvement.
I think the easy thing for legislators and the public to understand is you don't need to destroy our business to succeed in expanding gaming elsewhere.»
Forward - thinking candidates know that educational and economic justice means expanding school choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.
«I think this is an excellent opportunity to work with a public / private partnership to use a system that we already have in place, to expand use of the internet and to provide that opportunity for everybody here in Monroe County.»
Public employee unions — and some lawmakers in both parties — balked at the thought that future legislators could expand the forfeiture provisions beyond their current scope, which excludes cops, firefighters and teachers.
While I think the enthusiasm over Vitamin D is wonderful, I personally do not feel comfortable with the casual way that high dose Vitamin D supplements are being recommended by healthcare professionals and eagerly consumed by an ever expanding public at large.
You wouldn't think she would need to appear in what comes across as a vanity production, although perhaps she was in the mood expand her depth by showing the public that she can be more than she was as a comic figure in the two episodes of «Horrible Bosses.»
Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.
From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.
The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.
«I think this has the potential to dramatically undermine public education,» he said, noting that a small pilot could easily be expanded.
Together, these projects encouraged grassroots thinking about leadership, expanded the kinds of organizations addressing this issue and raised public awareness about the importance of leadership to improve student learning.
But CEO Kevin Teasley thinks expanding the number of charter schools in Indianapolis is key to reforming public education in general.
For many, the definition and understanding of «sculpture,» and even more so the term «sculptural,» has been expanded to the point of collapse within contemporary artistic practice while contracting within popular culture to the point of obsolescence (think no further than every bad public sculpture and memorial controversy or the trendiness of using «sculptural,» or as a comparison «architectural,» to describe everything from clothing design to cuisine).
(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.
I don't feel that the fact that we are public has changed the effort and thinking we put in to the legal advice we provide — whether we take on a case, whether we recommend to a client to settle a case, but it has meant that we can service more clients and that we've expanded a lot outside personal injury law.
Personally I think that the time has come for the Canadian public to focus a little more on the economics of a grossly expanding expectation of government regulation of our actions, and a dropping capacity on the part of the public to understand and interact with that regulation without a lawyer, followed by a diminished capacity to pay those lawyers (See the NSRLP — http://representingyourselfcanada.com/)