Sentences with phrase «ongoing debates»

Among many ongoing debates about the health of and prospects for the book business, few arouse the passions of authors (or divide them) more than perceptions of their prospects for success in today's marketplace.

This volume positions ongoing debates within the wider context of an education landscape struggling to displace junk - science ideology with empirical research.

Ongoing debates: The state board will also take up ongoing code proposals on teacher evaluation and charter schools, two of the hottest topics in education these days.

A day meant for appreciating educators has sparked controversy and some skepticism, largely in connection with ongoing debates around teacher pay, underfunded school systems, and standardized testing, to name a few.

Nowhere is this divide more evident than within the ongoing debates surrounding virtual charter schools, which more than 180,000 students attend full - time in 23 states and the District of Columbia.

The report strengthens the positions of teachers in Chicago should they vote to strike, should be considered in deliberations over the Friedrichs case, and must help shape ongoing debates about the importance of unions in the nation's public education system.

The magazine selects candidates whose active public life and distinction in their fields of study influence ongoing debates around the globe.

The Harvard Education Press publishes innovative, authoritative books covering critical issues in education that influence and inform education practice and administration, explore ongoing debates, and report on important research.

Dangerously Irrelevant In ongoing debates about education, the borderline - irrelevant topics often prove enlightening.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

He assumes a relatively well - informed reader, one already familiar with many of the intertwined historical and ongoing debates charted throughout, and who is perhaps occasionally prepared to pause and read up on a given concept or argument in the event of feeling the need to engage with it more extensively.

And yes, she says it's fine to cook with olive oil, despite the ongoing debates, as most home stoves won't heat the oil to a smoking point where it breaks down and forms toxins.

These high - fidelity simulations add context to ongoing debates related to Earth's geologic history and dynamics, bringing prominent features like tectonic plates, magma plumes, and hotspots into view.

The mood was raucous: ongoing debates have rattled each family member's assumptions about gender.

The rarity of the species makes it difficult to study, but these results could lead to the finding of echolocation across more species within the family and may help to solve ongoing debates about the evolution of echolocation.

If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

If we depend on the bible to direct us, that is a dangerous ground as there are very many convincing arguments and ongoing debates about the Bible.

Their presence challenges the religious establishment to make room for new partners in interfaith councils and in ongoing debates about the relation between church and state.

The problems of Babel are reflected in modern America in our ongoing debates about history, identity, the future, and how we can live together as a nation.

The speakers include most of the major players in ongoing debates about law and religion in public life, many of them well known to the readers of this journal: Sam Rabinove, Dean Keliey, John M. Swomley, Michael McConnell, Robert Michaelson, William Bentley Ball, Edward Gaffney, Jeffrey Hadden, Robert Destro, Mary Ann Glendon, Sandra Day O'Connor, and your editor.

Ongoing debates about the role of women in society and the Church show that Christianity and feminism have always been uneasy bedfellows.

The ongoing debates about Puerto Rican statehood suggest that the island may execute another legislative pirouette and change the face of its future.

We will touch on themes such as labour migration, diversity accommodation, family reunification, refugee issues, and other issues pertinent to ongoing debates on immigration in each case country.

There are ongoing debates about the necessity of childcare being a tax - deductible expense, many of these debates between men, with varying opinions and viewpoints.

SXSW screwed up last October when it canceled two panels that revolved around Gamergate, an ongoing debate in the video game community about the way women are portrayed in the gaming culture.

U.S. regulators have approved a potato genetically engineered to resist bruising and that could lead to a lower risk of cancer, marking an interesting twist in the ongoing debate over so - called Frankenfoods.

Tower of Babble chronicles Stursberg's tumultuous CBC stint from 2004 to 2010, a stretch largely defined by the ongoing debate over what a public broadcaster is and should be.

That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of women in high - growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are earned by women.

Just where online lenders fit in the regulatory scheme of things is a matter of ongoing debate.

For the time being, though, safety concerns have eclipsed all other factors in the ongoing debate over how to sort out North America's pipeline puzzle.

The ongoing debate about banker bonuses reflect a larger structural problem with the way such institutions are run, Al Habtoor argues.

Many aspects of the law have since expired or been amended, but the landmark bill was only the beginning in the ongoing debate over the government's spying powers.

A Budweiser executive said recently that the ad is «super relevant today,» but he cautioned against interpreting the commercial as a form of political commentary despite the ongoing debate over U.S. immigration policies.

Will.i.am argued that the ongoing debate about reality TV shows and their effect on the music industry «is just tabloid journalism trying to sell magazines to create some type of drama that's unnecessary.»

The global community needs to have a vigorous, ongoing debate about the ethics of energy.

This is an ongoing debate internally.

There is an ongoing debate about the current state of the junk bond market and what it means for equities and, more broadly, the economy.

The diesel emissions scandal also fueled the ongoing debate about banning diesel cars in Germany.

How to seek consent from Canadian users to collect, use and disclose their personal information in the digital age is the subject of ongoing debate.

There has always been an ongoing debate about the pros and cons of quantitative and qualitative methods for picking stocks.

In a nutshell, while an increase in the full retirement age is certainly possible, it's not the most likely outcome of the ongoing debate on to fix Social Security.

The ongoing debate on the wealth effects of hedge fund activism is worth following and is well - covered on Harvard's corporate governance blog (blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov).

Using Pakistan as a case study, this article analyzes the ongoing debate and concludes that while there is merit to arguments on both sides, prudent policy recommendations for the governance of the United States» covert drone program fall somewhere in between.

State lawmakers have had an ongoing debate about raising taxes to pay for infrastructure projects.

There was never any co-ordinated government response to the other recommendations, although the commission's thinking was undoubtedly absorbed in the ongoing debate in many policy sectors.

The ongoing debate about data and privacy is directly related to the question of encryption in some important ways, as Mossberg's tweet notes: messaging content is data that users would like to keep private, and encryption accomplishes that.

In the ongoing debate about scaling, network fees, congestion and mempools, the Lightning Network is Bitcoin Core's answer.

The bank says that there is a serious and ongoing debate about the characterization of bitcoin and that in no instance does it have any value on its own.

When Kyle Kashuv, one of the more prominent figures in the ongoing debate about what to do to reduce high school mass shootings, went to a shooting range with his father last Friday, the first thing he did was post some pictures and some pro-Second Amendment comments on Twitter.

This is good news fundamentally as it is sets the stage for block size to be increased and end the ongoing debate which has brought uncertainty to the market.