Sentences with phrase «needed national conversation»

Hopefully, Stop.Think.Respect is only an entree in a much - needed national conversation, rather than the main meal.

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Concluded Shen, «We need a national conversation on this issue, and an election year is the time to do it.

We need a national conversation that recognises and celebrates the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

Not exact matches

Jacobs: We've started to see the conversation around criminal justice change from what it had been forever, but do you think that change needs to happen on the local and state level first before we get to a national consensus?

That is a tougher national conversation, because it means addressing professor tenure, the wisdom of some research projects (Did we really need to know that horses prefer bananas to oregano?)

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

The project hopes to start a national conversation about alternatives to private financing of public investment, and needs both research partners and financial support.

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

If we really want to shift the national conversation for good, then we need to lay all solutions on the table for our decisionmakers to see.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

We were invited to attend MommyCon Orlando, a national parenting conference, and learned so much about the products available to moms and dads to make their lives that much easier (baby wearing) and planet conscious (cloth diapers); as well as many conversations justifying the need for a Mom Tribe; Mompreneurship; and so much more!

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

A net result of no gains and no losses or just picking up a handful of new seats will represent failure for a party that needs something spectacular to catapult it back into the national conversation.

We do need to have a national conversation about it.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), speaking in Syracuse Monday, said a national conversation about the inspiration of the attack and the meaning of the confederate flag is needed.

«Obviously the attention that has been given towards the initiatives at the national level to young men is important, but we really also felt that there were needs that young women have as well that were being overlooked in that conversation, and that kept coming up again and again,» Ms. Mark - Viverito told the Observer, among women in the philanthropy world and elsewhere.

In four years» time, as the English football team lifts the World Cup in Brazil, Labour needs to be leading that national conversation.

In the Senate, Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan, who will outline the GOP's «Affordability Agenda» on Tuesday, welcomed his colleagues back, and Democratic Minority Leader Andrew Stewart - Cousins, seizing on a national conversation, spoke of the need to deal with issues of sexual harassment.

We had had conversations with them during the winter, bringing in national experts to talk about cost, and we'd had those conversations with them and they said they'd collected all the material they felt they needed.»

King and colleagues say more work is needed to understand how the media influence individual attitudes and persuasion and call for further studies to determine the impacts of media ownership on influencing national policy conversations.

Because of this, it should come as no surprise to anyone that fear of loss of brain function is becoming a national obsession, generating seemingly endless conversation among baby - boomers, a seemingly endless procession of reports from researchers on the nightly news telling us more research is needed, and a seemingly endless amount of commercials advertising both natural substances and pharmaceuticals that supposedly deal with the problem in a highly efficacious, cost effective manner.

In a conversation that included representatives from KIPP, YES Prep, Cesar Chavez High School for Public Policy, UNO, High Tech High, Basis, National Heritage Academies, Basis, and Democracy Prep, among others, participants talked bluntly about the need to do far better when it comes to developing character, cultivating citizenship, and monitoring their performance in these areas.

Instead, educators need to find a way of making mentoring part of the national educational conversation, as well as ensuring that it is happening at the grass roots level, because if educational reform is not taking place in the classroom, then it's not really happening.

Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

We need to start a national conversation about this.

We know that in order to include American Indian students in national conversations about higher education, we need to represent each of our scholars.

«Then, instead of bickering over interest - group - driven politics, we could have a substantive, national conversation about how to refine the much - needed reforms so they create the best opportunities for kids who need them most.»

It is a simple but urgent plea to put the real needs of children at the center of the national conversation about education reform, which in its ideological divisiveness is in danger of leaving them behind.»

«CTE plays a powerful role in preparing students for postsecondary education and the workplace, and it is important that educators leading these programs have an opportunity to inform national conversations on the professional development and career supports that teachers need to meet new student learning and industry needs,» said Susanne Silk, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in Sanational conversations on the professional development and career supports that teachers need to meet new student learning and industry needs,» said Susanne Silk, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in SaNational Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), National Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in SaNational Board board member and Business Professionals of America advisor in Sayre, OK.

As one who tends to think that getting the government involved generally makes problems worse, I do believe we need to have a national conversation about this topic.

The intensity of their conversations ultimately fostered the early conservation movement's definitions of wilderness and the differing needs for national parks and national forests.

It is so pity although it is national clean energy summit, «Mr. Reid noted that nuclear energy, as well as increased drilling for conventional energies at home, will necessarily need to be part of the national conversation» Where is Al Gore speech and Obama's speech?

While repeating the refrain that «we can't drill our way out of this problem,» Mr. Reid noted that nuclear energy, as well as increased drilling for conventional energies at home, will necessarily need to be part of the national conversation — as well as this week's confab.

The way I see it, as the co-founding journalist of Climate Change National Forum, both the scientific and values conversations need to be fleshed out before the debate on the policy implications on all this stuff can begin.

Writing for The Conversation, Grattan Institute health program director Stephen Duckett outlined the need to simplify Australia's highly complex hospital funding arrangements (which he described as resembling spaghetti in the National Health Funding Body's flow diagram), and said there were many risks inherent with the taskforce plan.