Sentences with phrase «often challenges assumptions»

In addition to promoting early action, the analysis of chronic absence data often challenges assumptions about attendance and reveals unknown attendance patterns of individuals and groups of students.

There is also a lot of practical advice on goal setting, behaviour management and motivation that often challenges assumptions made by schools.

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Figuring out what customers like is the eternal challenge for every retailer, and there's a lot of contradictory info out there: on the one hand, studies confirm that everyone is drawn to novelty, with many people operating under the assumption that the newest product must be the best (and they're often right, but not always).

As so often happens, Jesus challenges the questioners» assumption.

He may also have discovered that the Song of Solomon, often called the Greatest of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots» of our pedestrian lives and gives us courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the assumptions that limit all who are different.

Many movements for social change, while seeking to halt violence or injustice, too often simply recast who is right and who is wrong, who is «us» and who is «them,» without challenging the paradigmatic assumption of duality.

However, I am challenging the assumption they often make: that we can or should guide our policy by sexual pleasure, by «the pause that refreshes,» by a discreet catch - as - catch - can, but no other commitment.

He attempts to ask questions that are often glossed over and to challenge the most basic of assumptions, looking for the shades of grey and color beyond the black and whites.

I try not to make assumptions about what I'm going to encounter in any given area of the country, because I've found that my expectations are often challenged by experience.

It's an assumption so often made and rarely challenged that I'm very curious to find the answer.

Too often we have not challenged the Left's assumption that its motives are more noble than our own.

Experiments usually require tinkering, theories can be articulated in different ways, background assumptions can often be challenged, and data rarely speak univocally in favor of one theory or against another.

Challenge your assumptions as often as you can — clearly, no possibility is off the table!

Dating bisexual people comes with unique challenges, only because of the assumptions that we often make about bisexuality.

If you see too Dating bisexual people comes with unique challenges, only because of the assumptions that we often make about bisexuality.

Addressing issues of diversity in the classroom can often be challenging because, as Kim noted, as a society we are conditioned from a young age to make assumptions about things by association and categorization.

That is because the learning in that area often requires challenge of assumptions, deep inquiry into leaders» thinking and the opportunity for extended dialogue between the learner and someone who is more expert.

Nationwide and in states, organizations are providing an unprecedented number of tools and services to help increase understanding and awareness and challenge many myths and false assumptions that often characterize many state and local debates.

Trying to understand what these shared moments meant to each character was one of the most challenging and exciting parts of writing — those were the scenes that stretched my imagination, motivated me to discover what I had not been paying attention to and often surprised me, as they revealed my own assumptions about the characters.

Craig's historical family tale offers insights into the political turmoil in Burma between 1926 and 1965 and challenges our assumptions about everything from beauty queens to rebels while reminding us that history is often determined by the fallibility of individuals.

The most creative entrepreneurs are often rule breakers and risk takers, challenging assumptions and presenting radical new solutions to everyday problems.

Asset allocations are often set based on some expectation of what normal returns will be, but today's low interest rates challenge those assumptions.

She has spent her career challenging assumptions about documentary objectivity, organizing her subjects in a way that emphasizes subjectivity and visual authenticity, often examining the same subject — whether it's shopfronts, chain link fences, or birds in flight — from multiple viewpoints.

The German - born, Vancouver - based artist Birthe Piontek has gained attention in recent years for her evocative photographic still life and portraiture, which often cleverly challenges our assumptions about intimacy, subjectivity, and mortality.

Working primarily in assemblage, Los Angeles - based artist Betye Saar has been creating challenging, often political works that interrogate assumptions about race and gender for 50 years, and at 90 she shows no signs of slowing down.

For the past three decades, the influential American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer has been challenging viewers» assumptions about the world through language that conveys the multiplicity of often contradictory voices, opinions and attitudes that form the basis of contemporary society.

I actually find such examples to often be more interesting and educational than a straightforward, orthodox explication of the conventional version, because they challenge me to re-examine assumptions, challenge my understanding of the fundamentals, and force me to distil the essential aspects of the evidence.

Pekka has often challenged Lewis (here and on Climate Audit) to explain how his «objective» choice of Bayesian prior is any less subjective than any other choice of a prior justified on the basis of specific theoretical assumptions.

Personal injury cases involving recreational activities often face challenges with assumption of risk challenges.

It entails several role plays and exercises, often illuminating and challenging assumptions about conflict.

«A book that will challenge assumptions about children's behavior and emotional development, while also challenging assumptions of the role of emotional learning in today's early childhood classrooms, an aspect that is far too often cast aside in favor of more academic pursuits.»

These well - intended, understandable, but often misguided assumptions lead to an inability to overcome the stresses involved in managing a healthy blended family because it leaves you unprepared for the challenges you will likely face.

Commercial property owners must challenge burdensome and unfair property taxes, and more often than not that task requires challenging the assessor's assumption of a market cap rate...