Sentences with phrase «harmful practices»

Their use encourages a narrowed curriculum, outdated methods of instruction, and harmful practices such as grade retention and tracking.

As convenient as it may be, this is a potentially harmful practice for the cat!

What we need is consistent, constant and concerted effort to stop harmful practices so that we can save the environment, for real.

There are so many people that do not study the breath, pass themselves as experts and teach harmful practices.

Nevertheless, I believe the research supports a role in custody cases for mental health professionals if the present harmful practices are stopped.

The need for market - wide student loan servicing reforms to stop harmful practices and protect borrowers.

There have been harmful practices in loyalty investigations.

Beginning in January 2014, some new CFPB rules will provide homeowners and consumers shopping for a home mortgage with new rights and greater protection from harmful practices.

The SFI condones environmentally harmful practices including large - scale clearcutting and chemical use, logging of old growth and endangered forests, and replacement of forests by ecologically degraded tree plantations.

It is worth reading the paper Engineering of Consent by Judith Richter to understand the public relations strategy Nestlé has developed to try to counter criticisms and continue with business as usual — these have become a model for other corporations facing calls to change harmful practices.

We monitor baby food companies, work for regulations to hold them to account and campaign against harmful practices, such as the Nestle boycott and DanoNO campaigns.

Harvard's Czeisler, perhaps the leading expert on sleep and productivity, points out that while corporations have policies around harmful practices such as smoking and drinking, they tacitly encourage long hours unrelieved by sufficient rest.

A growing section of the world population (1.3 billion) depend on fisheries and aquaculture for food and as a source of income, but harmful practices threaten the sector ’s

Members of the public, NGOs and donor agencies want to assist babies and giving them good information about infant and young child feeding in emergencies will help to prevent harmful practices and help to protect the most vulnerable to illness and death.

But the government is delaying ending this extremely harmful practice.»

This literature often depicted teachers as stupid or evil: stupid by robotically following tradition and unwittingly imposing harmful practices on students; evil by harboring race - or class - based prejudices that manifested in low expectations for many kids.

It would seem that this clearly harmful practice hasn't been thrust upon teachers by their unions, but rather is entirely in line with what teachers want for themselves.

Now, our campaign is focused on full implementation of the student - created Code of Respect policy by engaging a base of students in upholding the shared values, promoting best teacher practices and stemming harmful practices that undermine the values and lead to student marginalization and disengagement.

Certainly egregious and harmful practices need a more immediate response, and while it is possible to argue the harmful nature of many traditional assessment and grading practices, the goal is always long - term, sustainable change, not just a short - term fix.

The Puppy Protection Act would prohibit harmful practices such as cage stacking and wire flooring and require larger enclosures with spacious outdoor exercise runs.

The lack of uniformity from shelter to shelter and region to region among shelters spawns interesting and sometimes harmful practices.

This has led to many harmful practices:

For instance, preserving harmful practices, however the term may be defined, should not be a goal to aspire to.

The ramifications of psychiatry's sometimes unwitting, indifferent or knowing complicity in past harmful practices and beliefs have been far - reaching.

The programs instill stability and independence by counseling parents on the skills needed to stimulate their child's development and avoid harmful practices that can result in abuse and neglect.

Chinese environmental NGO, the Green Volunteer League of Chongqing, has brought a lawsuit again China's three biggest food delivery platforms — Baidu Waimai, Ele.me, and Meituan — for environmentally harmful practices.

ADVISE - Even if a mother has done some things correctly, she may need advice about other things to do and to be tactfully warned against harmful practices.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

It is a terrible and harmful practice that needs to stop.

But, for now, we don't have to know exactly why people are gay to put a stop to harmful practices that have left Justin, and so many like him, with no other option but despair.

Yet despite this highly persuasive evidence, parents today are not just persisting in harmful practices, but doubling down.

Despite current scientific evidence that artificial feeding can be a harmful practice, acceptance of breastfeeding as the normal or «default» method of infant feeding remains elusive in the industrialised world [10].

Unnecessary and harmful practices can lead to complications and harm mothers and their newborns.

Health - care providers can send a powerful message — that violence is not only a social problem, but a dangerous, unhealthy, and harmful practice — and they can champion prevention efforts in the community.

Sludge dumping, along with other environmentally harmful practices, gave shrimp farming a bad reputation.

But research increasingly indicates that spanking is actually a harmful practice,» said Holden, lead author on the study.

We are protecting them from all these harmful practices, and they are able to become anything they want to become in life.

This harmful practice wears the body out and by the end of the winter many people feel exhausted and depleted.»

In general, removing gluten from the diet is not a harmful practice, and in some cases can support weight loss much in the same way that the Atkins diet did — by reducing carb consumption.

Madison Stewart, a.k.a. Shark Girl, takes a look at the harmful practice of using shark nets in her native Australia.

It would be at least negatively challenging and scandalous to try to defend these harmful practices relying on a society's anachronistic religious and cultural beliefs and theories.

We need to continue to call out the harmful practice of overemphasis on grades and tests, and band together to abandon deficit approaches in our schools.