Sentences with phrase «for ideological debates»

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

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But long before the internal debate over Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

We are and always will be a place for ideas and debate, not a place that insists on conformity — intellectual, political, ideological, or otherwise.

Though school discipline reform is an imperative for the most ideological progressives, the debate over the issue has revealed some rifts within the de Blasio coalition.

And while there is an ideological cast to the debate — charter schools are a favored cause of many high - profile free - marketeers, while labor unions provide much of the oomph for the opposition — the picture there, too, is fuzzy.

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.

But recent events have shown that at least one of those impediments is not only resolvable but entirely of our own creation: the political and ideological debate over whether or not it is «right» for a school district to deploy private - sector education organizations as part of its education improvement strategy.

Those who suffer most in this increasingly ideological and vitriolic debate are teachers, who often are the first ones blamed for mediocre student results, which helps explain why half of them leave their posts in the first five years.

Exploring the significance of these freedoms through a myriad of ideological perspectives, the meetings will function as both public forums for debate and safe spaces where divergent viewpoints can co-exist — even if only temporarily.

I don't mean to speak for Paul, but I read this passage as not necessarily endorsing Newman's position by saying flat - out that cropping is not suitable for painters, but rather reporting the procedural and ideological debates, or maybe options, that were in the air when Hoyland worked.

And he examines some of the ideological baggage that environmentalists have brought to the climate change debate — from anti-consumerism and anti-Capitalism to a suspicion about technology and a preference for natural solutions.

«I think open explorations of the ideological assumptions scientists bring into policy debates are not only welcome but often necessary for having productive conversations.»

No, with perhaps walking back the rhetoric, it doesn't concern me — it is what it is, part and parcel of identity politics in the context of polarized debates that serve as proxy for ideological battles.

Actually, if you look at the discussion (take, for example, the comments to Mitch Kowalski's Dec. 30 slaw.ca article, which ran to 52 pages — and counting — as of this week) it seems less a debate than a war of ideological stances — there's for and there's against.

Breaking Ground: Chinese Investment in U.S. Real Estate provides a necessary resource for any investor, builder, financier, or service provider looking to stay ahead of this fast - moving trend, while also providing common ground for the broader debate, too often ideological and acrimonious, over U.S - China trade and investment.