Sentences with phrase «meaningful than research»

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Jim Gillogly, a computer scientist with the research organisation RAND in Santa Monica, California, says that if lots of people follow Canter and Siegel's example, the proportion of meaningful messages to irrelevant ones «will drop even further than it already has, and the Net will become unusable».

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Dedicated to improving schools in substantive ways, different voices in Australia have been promoting Meaningful Student Involvement, student voice and student engagement have been discussed, codified, researched and examined in Europe for more than three decades.

Based on more than 20 years of research by the University of Chicago, the 5Essentials survey looks at schools beyond test scores to provide meaningful information on school culture and climate.

«LAUSD should be putting its efforts into negotiating a meaningful, research - based evaluation system rather than trying to impose a flawed program based on discredited methodology.»

«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.

The «best estimate», which is the current focus of much scientific research, is less meaningful for robust decision making strategies than it is for optimal decision making.

This further supports encoding theories [9] More recent research in associative recognition shows support that semantic meaning of nameable pictures is activated faster than that of words, allowing for more meaningful associations between items depicted as pictures to be generated.

But new research argues that absence might truly make the heart grow fonder and that couples who live apart have more meaningful interactions than those who see each other daily.

Recent research suggests that long - distance couples talk less frequently than those who live in the same city, but that their interactions tend to be deeper and more meaningful.