Sentences with phrase «influence national debates»

His research helps inform and influence national debates over a range of education policies.

In all cases, Cuomo said, New York has influenced the national debate.

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Despite their numbers, their steady presence in the news, their unmistakable influence on the national debate over guns, some of them were trying to be teenagers again.

The smog generated by the debate over «religion and politics» obscured the fundamental anxiety that lay beneath all the sniping, posturing and manipulating: anxiety over patriarchal power's waning influence in our national life, whether as U.S. hegemony abroad, or as family «headship» and male entitlement in our domestic institutions.

So, when we have the debate about the Union influence within the Labour Party, let's remember that when Unions last played a real and major role in society on a national level, our country created the NHS, committed to full employment and a council house building programme.

De Blasio, who has traveled the U.S. saying he wants to influence national policy debate, for months has resisting calls to decriminalize marijuana.

«First, many candidates are largely unknown to a national audience, so voters still need to learn by observing the candidates» performance on the campaign trail and their performance in national debates, both of which often play a major role in influencing voters,» he said.

Two weeks after the New York City Board of Education adopted a controversial plan to distribute condoms in all of the district's high schools, local and national debate about the plan's merits, and its possible influence on other districts, continues unabated.

Nearly two decades later, the Delors report and its four pillars of learning have shaped policy debate and practice across numerous countries of the Asia - Pacific region and beyond, and continue to influence the education policies and practices of national governments and the work of international development partners including UNESCO, the World Bank and other international organizations.

«The two primary influences on children's education is that of the school and their parents, However, the parent voice has, up until this point, been largely absent from the national education debate,» said Ms Williams.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

It is likely to influence the roiling national debates about the importance of quality teachers and how best to measure that quality.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Although Gov. Jerry Brown isn't involved in decisions on the five proposed coal facilities, he could lend his influence to the debate as governor of the most economically powerful state in the country and the national leader on clean energy and climate policy.

-LSB-...] billions) of dollars to influence the national discussion this year, from campaign contributions to Santa Claus giving out «clean coal» at the Metro exits closest to Congressional offices to sponsoring presidential debates throughout the election cycle.

In 2004, Nordhaus and Shellenberger coauthored «The Death of Environmentalism,» igniting a national debate that continues to influence conversations about climate, energy, and the environment.

In addition to the debate over terrorism and targeted killing, he has written on the Russian cyber attack on the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton and the intervention in Libya, Saudi influence on global Islam, the National Security Agency and Edward Snowden's leaked documents, WikiLeaks and confidential State Department cables, and the Obama's administration's prosecution of leaks of classified information.

This has been a community movement, played out in regional and national media, influencing public debate about Indigenous issues, as well as our Australian identity for decades to come.