Sentences with phrase «measures public thinking»

Survey coauthored by Associate Professor Martin West measures public thinking on vouchers, Common Core, federal role in ed policy.

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I think that, following all of these huge cost - cutting measures and huge knock on the public service in recent decades, we would do well to lay off the public service a little bit.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

Well, many of us silly pollsters thought the Tories would end ahead of Labour too: questions on leadership and the economy favoured them, we expected the polls to move towards the Tories... but the data just kept on showing the parties neck - and - neck, and ultimately a pollster's job is to measure the answers the public give us, not report what we think they should say.

«This measure will cause high level public officials to think twice before they decide to do something corrupt.»

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Speaker Heastie says the Democrats, who hold a majority in the Assembly, have begun talking about the measures, and he thinks it's important to restore public trust.

Vaccines are thought to be one of the most successful public health measures, but some individuals are hesitant to vaccinate their families for a variety of reasons.

Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...

The ARCH project, developed through a Teaching American History grant partnership between the Howard County Public School System (Maryland) and the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), is a framework for assessment that measures the process of historical thinking, as well as the retention of prior knowledge.

A parent might think their child would benefit in other (harder to measure) ways by opting out of the local public school.

«This measure is a very reasonable and carefully thought - out approach to bringing innovative solutions to our public schools and improving the quality of education we provide to all students in Washington,» Litzow said in a news release.

Forty - nine percent of public - school parents thought tests don't measure things that are important to them about an education (46 percent said tests do).

«We would like to see them getting closer, but we do think they're measuring different things,» said Scott Thompson, director of teacher effectiveness strategy for the D.C. Public Schools.

Given that other parts of the public sector are facing deep austerity measures, schools have been urged to think of themselves as fortunate for avoiding cuts.

Public schools need to revolutionize their methods of measuring knowledge in a way that students can critically think and discover more about their world.

I think this is a very important macro-econ measure, but there is a big problem in that it only captures publicly traded mkt cap, and over long periods, the public / private structure of the economy changes.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

This is the only thing I'd like to say about religion, and I don't think it's too far off the rails: Any strategy for communicating the science to the public — let alone any strategy for promoting policy measures — needs to carefully analyze different segments of public opinion and look for ways they can be won over to your point of view, rather than needlessly alienated from it.

Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.

Can you think of anyone outside yourself, hans von storch, tamsin, who can even face the public with any measure of credibility» It is going to take a lot longer than one year because they have no shame.

Can you think of anyone outside yourself, hans von storch, tamsin, who can even face the public with any measure of credibility

I think 90 % of the public do realise that climate change is a real issue and not some kind of hoax and I also think that 90 % of the public correctly see that the kind of catastrophe implied is seriously removed from a complete wipe - out of humanity, and does not require really serious measures (tripling electricity rates, banning much car use etc.).

Personally, I think that no matter the criteria used (i.e., even if we could find some pure and objective criteria), the degree of «expertise» is not what measures the quality or advisability or value of a scientist's input into public discussion of science - related matters.

Yet this tag doesn't just apply to those who assert the whole concept is a fraud — such as President Trump, who has suggested it might be a ploy by the Chinese to hamstring the U.S. economy — but even to scholars like Danish author Bjorn Lomborg, who believes in climate change but thinks its impact is being deliberately exaggerated to scare the public into backing extreme and ineffective measures.

Another way to look at it, is if one thinks real scientists are of the opinion that «climate change» is important issue, and compare this with public's opinion of what are important national interests, the divergence of this could a metric to measure this lack of trust.

These measures might sound cumbersome to folks who are used to filling up with gas, but the truth is that I've relied much less on public charging than I ever thought I would.

If that is the measure then it could be simply that the public accepts that 97 percent of climate scientists meme that the earth's most recent spat of warming is human caused, but they don't think it really matters.

The only thing I would add is that I believe all libraries, including public and academic, would benefit from thinking about different ways to measure their value to their communities.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Thinking About Judges and Judicial Performance: Perspective of the Public and Court Users David Rottman and Tom Tyler, Onati Socio - Legal Series 4 (5)(2014) This article «describes and critiques existing judicial performance evaluation programs that incorporate procedural justice principles as a dimension for measuring quality through both survey and observational methods.»