Sentences with word «overemphasis»
President Obama has directed the Department of Education (the Department) to review its policies to address any places where the Administration may have contributed to the problem of overemphasis on testing burdening classroom time.
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Researchers from Europe, Asia, and Latin America were very alarmed by the current «reform» movement in the United States, fearful that the same trends — the same overemphasis of standardized testing, the same push for privatization and markets, and the same pressure to lower standards for entry into teaching — might come to their own countries.
These sound like the Bluetooth headphones of yesteryear, so expect unrefined overemphasis in the low - end that degrades the midrange vocals.
The current overemphasis on test preparation and other misuses of standardized testing have taken much of this critical professional skill out of the classroom and away from teachers.
No longer tied to a beaten down, tawdry medium of images chained to unworthy narratives, Malick's work destroys false complacency engendered by overemphasis on continuity and reality.
In contrast, OPMIs tend to place overemphasis on one accounting number — reported earnings — in order to predict what stock market prices in the immediate future might be.
However, Wood portrays Daisy's childlike nature with such overemphasis that it is difficult to believe the naiveté in her actions as she experiences many firsts — her first time flying on a plane; her first time drinking champagne; her first time on a roller coaster.
Connecting my pair of Mi In - ear Pro earphones, there is a slight overemphasis on bass using the default Smart and Music modes, but you can always customize the sound to your liking with the AudioWizard app.
And yet the subjects showed the same overemphasis on the most recent years.
Too often these opportunities are missed through overemphasis on enforcement as a tool to achieve compliance and narrow definitions of «public safety.»
This does help to counter a traditional overemphasis on western societies and an ethnocentric bias in the treatment of other societies.
Extreme bass overemphasis means that the JBL Under Armour Sport Flex will keep pace with the intensity of your workout.
Theologian Carl Trueman offers a useful corrective to the evangelical elites overemphasis on urban areas:
Once the shine is off, all that's left is a so - so revenge thriller with an absurd overemphasis on craft.
The book's focus on teacher autonomy and creative license is a stiff rebuke to the troubling overemphasis on standardized testing and rote memorization in schools, a perspective that may frustrate some readers — while inspiring many others.
My personal favorite part of the Diane Ravitch myth is when, clad in the raiment of Athena, she upbraided King Eurystheus for setting the 12 labors before Heracles, calling it a «dangerous overemphasis on testing.»
A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation's public schools.
It seems as if conventional securities analysis puts overemphasis on four factors which makes their approach much less useful in helping to understand FF in particular and business in general.
This seems attributable to a gross overemphasis on four factors in conventional security analysis:
In Canada, the continuing overemphasis on incarceration may be partly due to the perception that the restorative approach is a more lenient approach to crime and that imprisonment constitutes the ultimate punishment.
All of these points, Liu indicated, criticized but also recognized the stereotype of Asians as lacking leadership and communication skills, partly due to a cultural overemphasis on IQ (intellectual quotient) rather than EQ (emotional quotient).
Detail is lacking in the lowest frequencies, absolutely due to the aggressive overemphasis.
Educators, parents, and students are beginning to awaken to the fact that something needs to be done to reduce the amount of and overemphasis of standardized testing in America's public schools.
The current overemphasis on genetic approaches in biological research seems likely to be perceived as a new determinism.
We need to continue to call out the harmful practice of overemphasis on grades and tests, and band together to abandon deficit approaches in our schools.
But an overemphasis on conventional person - to - person customer engagement does not come close to areas of growing consumer interest: innovation, self - service and the use of contemporary technology.
Consider the overemphasis on closing in sales.
The second is the overemphasis on 2007.
These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.
I went into this post to address why an overemphasis on emergency funds is the wrong mindset, which will limit your long term financial well - being.
The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.
Overemphasis on community within religious circles can spring from a fear of such solitude.
Overemphasis on miraculous salvation, on grace, is incompatible with his covenantal model.
Some may still object to my overemphasis on style, as though, it is nasty to think about style.
Gordon Kaufman (1925 — 2011) has called attention to an overemphasis on «God's tyrannical omnipotence» that offended many sensitive and thoughtful humanists who found it impossible to worship or believe in such a deity.
It is unfortunate that Augustine's debate with the Pelagians ended in an overemphasis upon human sinfulness and upon baptism as the sacramental eradication of that sin.
Shaun cites an overemphasis on reason, logic and propositional truth.
Wuthnow concludes, from his three - year research into how Americans view faith and money, that although there is much lip service to decrying the overemphasis on money and materialism, in practice mammon is winning out over God, and the churches are silent for the most part on stewardship issues.