• There was
near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»
Not exact matches
Also this seemed a good contemporary roundup of the evidence, not for the climate crisis itself, but for the
near -
unanimity among scientists that there is one.
In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the
near -
unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»
That research is now in, and the scientific uncertainty that once justified skepticism has been replaced by
near -
unanimity among credentialed researchers that an artificially warming world is a real phenomenon posing real danger.