Sentences with phrase «highly controversial»

The configuration of the new mall was highly controversial.

One of the latest targets for the campaign has been the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline being built in the Midwestern U.S. by Energy Transfer Partners and its pipeline cronies, Sunoco Logistics and Energy Transfer Equity.

During his career, Chris has had extensive experience in building partnerships and collaborating with state and federal agencies, local government, tribes, businesses, non-profit organizations and user groups, often on highly controversial and contentious issues.

It's important to keep in mind that seagrass is an important part of Belize's ecosystem, and the removal of seagrass is highly controversial and legislated due to its importance to the health of the Barrier Reef.

Sat beneath Mount Vesuvius you'll find the ancient and highly controversial city of Naples.

The managed colony and TNR approach is highly controversial and strongly opposed by many conservationists, wildlife biologists, veterinarians, and animal welfare groups.

Use of such drugs in dogs is highly controversial, as their efficacy, side effects and safety in companion animals are unknown at this time.

King's legislation is highly controversial — a diverse array of more than 180 groups opposes it — and it must be kept out of the final Farm Bill.

Aggression with regards to its causation and repair is a highly controversial and hotly debate subject in the dog training world.

The use of colloids is highly controversial in human medicine and becoming so in veterinary medicine as well, 12 with recent research13 implicating a link between the use of a synthetic colloid and the development of acute kidney injury in dogs.

This grain is frequently associated with food intolerance in dogs which makes it a highly controversial ingredient.

They are regularly linked with dietary intolerance in dogs which makes it a highly controversial ingredient.

Food How to best feed a kitty is a highly controversial topic.

Although it is a cornerstone of modern financial theory, the EMH is highly controversial and often disputed.

This financing practice is highly controversial and in 1992, was outlawed in the United States for loans longer than 61 months.

The use of this kind of emergency credit is highly controversial, but if you understand exactly what you are doing, a payday loan can be a viable source of emergency funding.

Consumer advocates hope that by shining a bright spotlight on the credit reporting industry and enforcing the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the CFPB will eventually begin answering the highly controversial questions that have split consumer advocates and industry leaders for years.

High frequency trading [HFT] is highly controversial — and it is a data - intensive task to investigate what is right or wrong.

This is highly controversial because of it's contribution to the income inequality in the world, and often debated by shareholders.

This feature is highly controversial among publishers for fear of losing sales.

An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal.

That's what an anonymous but concerned citizen was thinking when reporting famed author Nelle Harper Lee to state officials over a dubious decision to publish the long - hidden sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, the highly controversial title Go Set a Watchman.

While there are some products on the Web that are designed to «crack,» «strip,» or «bypass» DRM copyright protection, these tools are as highly controversial as the use of DRM itself.

During this highly controversial campaign, the government demolished hundreds of thousands of structures, displacing between 300,000 and 1,000,000 people, largely poorer urban dwellers.

The Gulen movement is powerful and highly controversial in Turkey and has been linked with suppression of free speech and the arrests of journalists.

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «What are the best ways parents can help teachers and that teachers can help parents?

I too have been questioning the purpose and integrity of this new, highly controversial, computer - adaptive testing experiment.

At the same time, it remains highly controversial to professional teachers and educators who fully understand the dangers inherent in «teaching to a test» and also understand that there are multiple ways to evaluate what students are learning and that students are more than a test score.

The Department of Education has taken a look at 700 of the 850 schools that started carrying out a revised, highly controversial version of the School Improvement Grant program during the first year of its implementation, the 2010 - 11 school year.

The public release of that information was highly controversial, as individual teachers were named and graded.

Certainly, as was mentioned, the Republican Party wrapped itself in its own clothes of righteousness and tried to make the Catholic issue into a highly controversial issue, but it was not the only impulse surrounding the Blaine amendment.

This became highly controversial.

Six years ago, the state of Wisconsin passed the highly controversial 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, which virtually eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public - sector workers, as well as slashed those workers» benefits, among other changes.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

It's not just conservatives who oppose — or at least are raising concerns about — the Common Core standards and especially the related increased focus on testing (highly profitable for Pearson, highly controversial among actual school communities once they experience it).

Despite local parent opposition, the NYC Department of Education is pushing through a highly controversial rezoning plan, to be put to a vote on Tuesday, November 22th, as a way to desegregate and improve a group of Upper West Side elementary schools.

This month we look at the following highly controversial topic «What should a holistic approach to learning look like and how do we shift the focus from the accountability measures in existence now to one that's relevant for all students in a changing world?»

While less expensive than hiring more deputies, that idea has been highly controversial.

After having spent some $ 3.4 billion on public education in the United States — much of it directed toward the development and implementation of the highly controversial Common Core State Standards — Gates says that 60 percent of his new investment will go to public schools and about 15 percent to the development of charter schools.

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «How do we better engender a healthy, happy, and productive school environment -LSB-...]

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «How do you as teachers support children who are confused or frightened -LSB-...]

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «What is the best gift you would recommend for your students this -LSB-...]

But the process of judging winners and losers amid wrenching austerity cuts has proved highly controversial.

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «What are the important skills, behaviors, and attitudes that students need to -LSB-...]

This month we look to answer the following highly controversial question «How do you help students accept and work well with people of -LSB-...]

And, at a recent education reform summit he convened earlier this month, as he began to get to the crux of his speech on how he plans to tackle the highly controversial teacher evaluation issue, the sound equipment cut out.

This is a highly controversial and unpopular stance, especially on the left, which ascribes disadvantaged children's poverty and academic troubles to oppressive social structures and defective institutions and is suspicious of projects that blame disadvantage on dysfunctional cultural norms.

Primary testing has proved highly controversial during the past year including the government's decision to ditch this year's spelling, punctuation and grammar tests for all year 2 pupils, the abandoning of the new reception baseline tests, and controversy over the use of an «exclamation sentence» in literacy and how to use a comma in key stage 2 maths.

Though never an official flag, the display of the Confederate flag remains highly controversial because of the disagreement of its symbolism.

New York City's Success Academy Charter Schools are both high - performing and highly controversial because they do not replace students who leave after 4th grade, contending that entering students would be too far behind their peers (Taylor, 2015).