Sentences with phrase «informed debate about issues»

The Policy Brief series aims to stimulate informed debate about issues that affect children's health, development and wellbeing.

Policy Brief aims to stimulate informed debate about issues that affect children's health and wellbeing.

-LSB-...] that we could ask politicians questions and have at least some informed debate about this issue (Getting A2J Onto the Political Agenda in the Federal Election)... but oh -LSB-...]

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This newventure will hopefully allow some journalists the opportunity to delve far more deeply into these issues, and allow them then to contribute more constructively to informing the public about the real state of the religion — science debate.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

I might add here that this situation unfortunately describes the supposed bedsharing debate: those that support informed choice to bedshare and who, like myself, who deplore inaccurate, simplistic generalizations about the «dangers» of sleeping with baby (and misrepresentations about the bedsharing issue, who differ from the governments position) are demonized, belittled at professional meetings sponsored by professional groups (like First Candle) and attempts to ostracize repeatedly take place.

Local government has been at the forefront of many of the issues I shall be talking about today and Sarah Mulley at the IPPR has done a vital job in informing the debate on the centre left of British politics.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

Cardiff, UK About Blog The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.

Cardiff, UK About Blog The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.

«Since I study immigration, the ability to contribute to and inform the public debate means a lot to me at this particular moment and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how some of these issues are playing out across diverse contexts.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Cardiff, UK About Blog The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.

I mean even though I became this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, over time I've learned to embrace the opportunity that has given me to talk to the public about this problem and the threat that it represents, to inform the public discourse on this issue.

In no way do my values suggest that debate should be curtailed: I merely insist that a scientific debate should take place in the scientific literature and that the public be put in a position where it can make an informed judgment about the voices that are opposing mainstream science on crucial issues ranging from climate change to vaccination.

I happen to be one of those greenies who * is * informed about nukes, and as I try to imagine debating the numerous libertarians on sci.env about the issue I find myself imagining other things to do.

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

Regarding Alex Merz's comment: the problem with the debate about global warming (and many other environmental issues) is that the uninformed are thinking that they ARE informed because they are getting their information well - spun from «authorities» like Crichton and Lomborg and Gregg Easterbrook and Patrick Michaels.

Our blog is an experiment, and with constructive feedback we hope that it improves and contributes to informed debate on contested issues that people have strong feelings about.

Cardiff, UK About Blog The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.

If and when any other issues come to the floor of the House of Delegates, the Association can and should have a full and informed debate about them.

About Site - The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.

London About Website Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world.

Boston, MA About Blog Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world.

Nonetheless, very shortly I will release the research in order to inform debate among Indigenous people and communities about the history of national representative bodies in Australia and the types of issues that we will have to grapple with in deciding what type of body will best meet our needs.

Cardiff, UK About Blog The Welsh Brexit blog aims to inform and encourage constructive debate and analysis on issues relating to Wales and the UK's exit of the European Union.