Sentences with phrase «objective observer of»

«An objective observer of the District of Columbia schools must conclude that our superintendents, principals, and teachers are being asked to do an enormously difficult job with one hand tied behind their backs,» says the report, issued last month by Parents United for the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Being a keen independent and objective observer of the Ghanaian political landscape, I reckon, some individuals and groups believe it is their inalienable right to govern this country, and nobody else's, and would go to all lengths, through fair or foul means, just to win power.

Not exact matches

The court wrote in Boyce that «the appearance of unlawful command influence» exists «where an objective, disinterested observer, fully informed of all the facts and circumstances, would harbor a significant double about the fairness of the proceeding» — a calculus evident in Nance's own public comments on Oct. 23.

Of course, a handful of observers are so self - satisfied with pointing out the challenges since 2009 that I've regularly admitted and already addressed that they confuse the message with the messenger; ignoring objective evidence as a consequencOf course, a handful of observers are so self - satisfied with pointing out the challenges since 2009 that I've regularly admitted and already addressed that they confuse the message with the messenger; ignoring objective evidence as a consequencof observers are so self - satisfied with pointing out the challenges since 2009 that I've regularly admitted and already addressed that they confuse the message with the messenger; ignoring objective evidence as a consequence.

I have been critical of the Globe «s business reporting practices in the past (especially its tendency to quote Bank economists as «objective» observers of economic events) but on Saturday, it ran one of the best business pieces I've read in a long time.

Put an objective observer (I know, there's no such thing) into a community and in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity of that community, you will be able to describe their political (not a bad word) and social structure, you will uncover their norms and mores, their rules, very often unspoken or only spoken and not written.

«A personal experience is fine, but without corrobrating evidence of some kind, I don't have enough faith in our ability as objective observers to take it on your word alone.

This perspective of B as external to that of A. However, Whitehead's theory is inconsistent with versions of externalism which assume a hypothetical ideal observer or versions of externalism dependent on types of realism which posit objective facts of the matter independent of the experience of any actual subject.

Since this expectation is usually unconscious, it persists long after the realities of the marriage make its unrealism obvious to a relatively objective observer such as a marriage counselor.

Not that I'm an entirely objective observer: I am director of learning at The Cedars.

In other words, the Greek temple helped the human observer to organize his world in terms of objective forms, rather than in terms of subconscious forces or aspiration for some superhuman state.

Then this attitude of man is not something objective, which lies passive before the gaze of the observer, but it is part of the process of living, which is in motion at every instant.

Thus, another feature of simultaneity is that it is some sort of objective relation extending to all events fulfilling that relation beyond the events present to a particular observer's sense - awareness (cf. CN 53).4

Furthermore, it is pretty well established that objective properties of physical systems do not always even exist independent of an observer - in a sense, they come into being through the action of the observer.

«[The] stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine, and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.»

Judge Reena Raggi said: «The stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.

This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root of all descriptions of an object, including adjectives such as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..

Indeed, his proof shows quite forcefully that quantum mechanics poses special problems for any view that, instead of regarding real (as opposed to pure or purely logical) possibilities as subjective fictions, accords them objective status and makes them independent of the observer.

At the same time, his combination of learning, experience, and temperament is striking and impressive, and, again, any objective observer — so long as the television cameras are off — would admit as much.

(This, of course, is a typical postmodern approach to epistemology: No one can claim to be a truly objective observer; we are all influenced by our interpretive communities.)

Interestingly though we have three parallel propositions of varying circumstances and positions for an observer to finally take a subjective as well as objective call on the quality and competence of our Mr. Arsene Wenger.

An objective observer will surmise from events in Bayelsa that APC candidate, former Bayelsa Governor Timipre Silva was determined to achieve the politically - impossible outcome of winning the state governorship by whatever means possible, including or especially through violence.

As we move into the election season, the inevitability of Democratic victories all across this state are evident to every objective observer.

Having said that, strange developments from Osun West Senatorial District are sufficient enough to compel objective observers to inquire when cheap blackmail took over as a spice of influence on which political actors would always want to ride to power.

Even though we all applauded the decision to go biometric in the last two elections, every objective observer knew we have already collected biometric details of citizens for the following purposes: national passports, the e-Zwich payments platform and the national identification system.

Considerations of diversity and inclusion thus generally come up only after the vast majority of the candidate pool has already been disqualified on «objective» grounds, Posselt observers.

Internationally - acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has famously challenged the established benchmarks of cinema, in Caché he showed the camera as the objective observer, in a medium that is notorious for its subjectivity, but Funny Games does something a little different.

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - Differentiated homework task to extend learning, - High level analysis of challenging texts, - Links to relevant clips, - Lesson graded as outstanding by observers, - 2 hour lesson with a clear split for 2x 1hour lessons.

Such results might influence the thinking of an objective observer primarily interested in doing right by the nation's poor children.

DB: However one interprets the evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.

This will make it even harder for objective observers to cling to the notion that vouchers and credits are functionally equivalent (though there are of course other important differences beyond this one).

Fairness in the evaluation process occurs when teachers have confidence that observers follow similar processes, and have the necessary skills to gather and provide objective and representative evidence of their teaching practice.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

And it's not that the climate walk tool can be quantified, but you have objective observers walking through a school and looking at certain areas of the school.

Video takes the angst out of evaluation because it gives teachers and their observers a common, objective piece of evidence on which to base their conversation.

Researchers concluded that because districts «do not have processes in place to address the possible biases in observational scores,» statistical adjustments might be made to offset said bias, as might external observers / raters be brought in to yield more «objective» observational assessments of teachers.

But some observers continue to view them as the most «objective» sources of information about teacher performance.

When discussing various observers» attitudes towards some body of objective data, such as the data underlying the science of climate change, those who evaluate the data without undue ideological bias might better be described as «impartial» rather than as «objective».

Objective: 1 b: A condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers: having reality independent of the mind.

Once again, we would like to point out that although climate change could affect the severity, frequency and spatial distribution of hydro - meteorological events, we need to be cautious when interpreting disaster data and take into account the inherent complexity of climate and weather related processes — and remain objective scientific observers.

Climate Change is complex, and as an objective, outside observer, I feel that waaaay too much emphasis has been placed on CO2 in recent years, at the expense of other important factors that need more attention.

code to the monster, spaghetti, unvalidated code of GCM's — which objective observers know are inadequate for policy.

And, considering the identity of the lead author of the paper, the presumption of any objective observer must be that the results were probably cherry - picked: they kept trying different approaches until they found one that could «fool» the methods they were attacking trying to attack.

They understand that whatever the title of the person, they are listening to a true believer not an objective observer.

I suppose it's relevant to the current issue as an illustration of confirmation bias — i.e., a belief in the objective truth of something that most knowledgeable observers would see as seriously distorted.

In the meantime back in the real world Teh Modulz don't agree with each other, and any intellectually honest and remotely objective observer would not be claiming that CAGW True Believers have, to a (wo) man, declared that this state of affairs proves much of anything other than something which is already axiomatic: there really is a great deal more forward - looking uncertainty that rearward.

objective Date: 1647 1 b: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers: having reality independent of the mind 3 a: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretation from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objective

When scientists take positions on policy, they forfeit their claim of being objective observers.

Second, in view of the finding on the liability phase that the Respondent deliberately touched the four complainants in a way that an objective observer would find to be sexual and in accepting the complainants» evidence that the touching was, to them, «blatantly sexual» there is no line of analysis that could reasonably lead the tribunal to conclude that the Respondent's awkward, unskilled and non-empathic manner was a factor in understanding his abusive behaviour or that it could reasonably infer that he was genuinely and completely unaware of the ways in which his behaviour in relation to his patients was in fact abusive,» said the ruling.

... the quality of the sources relied upon by the applicant, including an article by a Serbian priest, hardly an objective observer, and a downloaded extract from an on - line encyclopaedia, «Wikipedia,» that provided no references for its content, did not impress.