Sentences with phrase «national debate»

How much homework is appropriate for students is a question that's sparked national debate over the years.

We should be brave enough to have a robust, grown - up national debate about immigration without accusations of racism being immediately thrown around.

Still covered, of course, but more as a curiosity than the focus of national debate.

This resistance is a concern for pets, but the problem of resistance has taken a larger national debate when it comes to the use of antibiotics in food - producing animals.

There's been national debate around football - related head impacts and how they can cause problems later in life.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

But few students — and only a small fraction of adult citizens for that matter — participate in a highly contentious national debate.

I also placed in the top 10 my junior and senior years at the college national debate tournament.

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

Tough's book will prepare you for a new national debate long before it gets started.

A true national debate on the single most important threat we face would begin.

Rising Chinese investments in Australian agriculture have triggered an emotional national debate on food security and foreign ownership of national assets.

As I do so I want to stress now that these are not policy prescriptions; they are questions that we as a country need to ask in a sensible national debate.

Nonetheless, the good news is that there is now an active national debate about placing a ceiling on reliance on coal.

Around the same time, another high - profile case led to a major constitutional challenge, and a very national debate on the topic of assisted suicide.

The widespread consensus generated by extensive national debate over several years was fundamental to its success and contributed to a sense of public investment and ownership.

The question is now at the forefront of national debate, and the answer often divides along party lines.

We think these numbers can provide context on the larger news stories and national debates around patent litigation and licensing.

When Neel began painting her neighbours in Spanish Harlem in the 1940s and 50s, urban deprivation was becoming a subject for national debate.

Although ART has been around for several decades, recent scientific advances and the growing number of infertility advocates have sparked national debates on issues ranging from calls for tighter controls over the types of ART procedures used to insurance coverage for infertility treatments.

Family law is now entwined with national debates over the structure of family, gender bias and morality.

Inject research evidence on fathers, fatherhood and co-parenting into national debates about parenting and parental roles

Mayor Stephanie Miner, a Democrat, stepped into a heated national debate in 2015 by calling for more Syrian refugees.

Ongoing national debates about how to get better teachers will never be resolved until there is professional and public consensus on a set of «common» standards for the practice of teaching.

National debate continues to rage over the use of testing for student and teacher evaluation, and we hunt for elusive silver bullets.

This 30 - second commercial from the United Church of Christ ignited weeks of national debate after CBS and NBC refused to air the spot, claiming it was too controversial.

State lawmakers returned Tuesday to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control following a massacre at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

Amidst the roiling national debate about American identity, veteran California Latina artist Linda Vallejo creates a realm in which US popular culture is overlain with a Mexican - American sensibility.

«David is one of the top young education economists in the country — his work has earned high praise in academic circles and helped to shape national debates on education policy.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR - 15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.

Literacy instruction in California at this time was taking place within a raging national debate between advocates for phonics and supporters of whole language, and Proposition 227 had recently been passed, forcing dramatic reorganization of language and literacy instruction in school.

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

The resolution comes amid the fierce national debate over gun rights in the wake of the Feb. 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 dead.

The walkout unfolds amid a reinvigorated national debate over gun control and school safety, sparked by student survivors of the Parkland shooting.

«And second, can I yet again ask them to foster open national debate about Islam to include our Muslim friends so we can all understand with what we may be dealing in a few years time?»

Derek Humphry's Final Exit, a celebration of the right to die — and a guide to how to do it — set off a furious national debate among both secularists and religionists.

Establishing curiosity, respect and even ground rules around the hot political topics of the day will allow your students more creativity, as well as allowing them to profoundly explore and understand that they are a part of history and that their dialogue, advocacy and compassion informs national debate.

A number of other landmark cases before and after the Native Title Act have served as the legal forum for a major national debate on the nation's colonial past and the politics of race.

The nature of the work of Jenkins and Long stirred national debate.

Allegations of political bias threw Facebook into the center of a fierce national debate during the 2016 election.

Even some of his interpretivist compatriots may have reservations about portions of Gangi's argument, but all will agree that this volume is a spirited and provocative contribution to one of our most important national debates.

There is a real need to have a proper national debate about the growth of extremism in our country today — and Matthew's book offers invaluable analysis for all mainstream parties.»

In the Channel 4 investigation, Malaysia was named as one of the countries in which Cambridge Analytica had operated, sparking a huge national debate ahead of a general election.

In the Channel 4 investigation, Malaysia was named as one of the countries in which Cambridge Analytica had operated, sparking a huge national debate ahead of a general election.

By Tim Gaynor REUTERS NOGALES, Ariz Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:05 am EDT (Reuters)-- After listening to a fiery national debate about the impact of illegal immigration and drug smuggling over the porous U.S. - Mexico border, retiree Edgar King figured he would make up... Continue reading >>

«We are in a period of intense national debate on issues of school performance, one that has been largely critical of our teachers,» said Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, co-author of the report.

The recent national debate on school reform has made us keenly aware of the gross and systematic disparities that exist in educational opportunity across the United States.