Sentences with phrase «past decade of debate»

For scholars and policy makers focused on reforming urban schools, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons From Chicago may represent the most important research over the past decade of debate.

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For much of the past decade the plasma vs. LCD debate clogged web forums and left consumers scratching their heads.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

-- Justin Trudeau was undiplomatically curt, but quite correct in dismissing Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard's recent, mystifying proposal that we revisit the divisive and debilitating constitutional debates of past decades.

The intense debate over how best to interpret the past two decades of pacifist activity is both provocative and instructive.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

One of the great, depressing bar debates in Sacramento right now is determining which of the Kings» three GMs of the past decade is the worst.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

What has happened on the electoral reform file in five of Canada's ten provinces over the past decade has already entered the post-election debate over the Liberals» reform package.

This morning we spent an hour debating with Fixistas over our list of the 10 best Senate races of the past decade.

Where the carbon dioxide comes from has been a source of debate among researchers over the past decade.

«There has been a lot of debate for a very long time, but especially in the past couple of decades, about whether information representation in the brain is distributed or local,» Barbour said.

While some may debate this, less than a half decade after Shaun of the Dead set the standard for recent zombie comedies (Dead Alive / Braindead is the reigning king, in my opinion), Zombieland sweeps past Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with seeming ease.

The reality is that we need both, and this debate shouldn't be allowed to sidetrack one of the most dramatic improvements in the nation's education system in the past decade.

Two reforms have dominated the education policy debates of the past decade: school choice as epitomized by charter schools, and testing and accountability as symbolized by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Perhaps the most widely discussed critique of teacher preparation of the past decade, the hotly debated 2006 study by the National Center for Policy Analysis, Educating School Teachers, simply presumed that teacher recruitment ought to be geared toward new college graduates who would complete beefed - up versions of familiar training programs before being cleared to enter the same old jobs.

In the education debates that have been waged over the past decade, education experts often cited an alarming statistic: 50 percent of new teachers leave after the first five years.

While everyone praised the new spaces, some of us resurrected a recent debate on the «boys» club» image the museum's gained after showing only three women artists out of a total seventeen solo shows for the past decade.

Feminist debates of the past three decades have had an enormous impact on the practice of art history.

The debate over the past week has been confined to actions during the end game of a decade - long process.

Leslie Kaufman has written an excellent story on how one great city, Chicago, has vaulted past stale debates over the causes and consequences of disastrous weather to begin boosting its resilience to conditions that are most likely to dominate in coming decades.

The debate over the possible existence of a warming slowdown has sparked fierce scientific controversy over the past two decades.

Yet, legal practice management software (LPMS), which has been one of the most discussed, debated and reviewed legal software genres for the past decade, has just recently reached the threshold of being adopted by half of all firms.

Yes, this is a revival of the lawful access debates that have taken place intermittently over the past decade or so.