Sentences with phrase «policymakers and the public not»

For years now, they've used their credentials and organizational imprimatur to mislead policymakers and the public not only about the «threats» posed by free - roaming cats, but with their suggestion — nothing more than a vague implication, of course — that they have a feasible alternative.

Not exact matches

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

Litan adds that while the public and policymakers are right to worry about the startup decline, aspiring entrepreneurs needn't sweat it.

In this environment, policymakers would do well to not only be cautious and forward - looking in managing the level and structure of public borrowing, but vigilant about detecting and defusing potential build - ups of vulnerabilities in the private sector as well (and, as our unfortunate experience shows, off - balance sheets as well as on).

Religion should ever be a personal choice and not be made a public spectacle as many so do including the Christian Pharisees who incite their folds to make public policymakers shudder with mono - phobiatic fear.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

«A tax cap that is tied to an inflationary number that does not reflect school district costs and which results in negative levies should raise concerns with both state policymakers and the general public that want a quality education for our students.»

Gun control legislation certainly isn't going anywhere — House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested as much on Thursday morning, when he said Congress needs more information on what would be an effective policy: «I think, as public policymakers, we don't just knee - jerk before we even have all the facts and the data.»

«There are many reasons why policymakers may or may not engage with science and we are not under any illusions that our project will provide a magic bullet,» said Emily Cloyd, who heads the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology and is one of the project leaders.

But the burden of making synthetic biology secure does not fall just on the scientists; policymakers and opinion leaders need to endorse those plans, too, for the public to believe in the governance.

«As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organizations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain.»

«Such prevalence data does not itself define need for care or targets for prevention, but reliable information on prevalence will help to drive public health and healthcare policymakers» prioritisation of this important cause of distress and disability in the general population,» they conclude.

In recommending that smokers who can not or will not quit cigarettes try e-cigarettes, PHE takes a position on the opposite side of the aisle from the U.S., where many prominent tobacco control advocates, public health officials, and policymakers are critical of e-cigarettes.

May it serve as a warning not only to policymakers, but also to researchers, clinicians, peer reviewers, journal editors, and journalists of the need to consider the harm to scientific credibility and public health when dealing with studies funded by food companies with vested interests in the results — and to find better ways to fund such studies and to prevent, disclose and manage potentially conflicted interests,» writes Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., of New York University, in a related commentary.

The JCVI is a not - for - profit research institute in Rockville, MD and San Diego, CA dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics; the understanding of its implications for society; and communication of those results to the scientific community, the public, and policymakers.

The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a not - for - profit research institute dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics; the understanding of its implications for society; and communication of those results to the scientific community, the public, and policymakers.

If policymakers and citizens don't recognize the role that science now plays in modern everyday life, and the value of scientific evidence to help us make better public decisions, research and innovation will not thrive.

The J. Craig Venter Institute is a not - for - profit research institute which through its two operating divisions, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) advances the science of genomics; the understanding of its implications for society; and communication of those results to the scientific community, the public, and policymakers.

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

With painting, drawing, singing, and dance classes dwindling in public schools, Sarson hopes the half - hour special opens up a dialogue between administrators, policymakers, parents, and teachers about the importance of such activities and the potential consequences of raising generations of children that aren't encouraged to appreciate the arts or think outside the box.

[ii] The question facing policymakers and the public is not whether eliminating tuition at public colleges for most families will have a positive effect, but whether it is the best use of a large new federal investment in higher education.

Being able to draw in parents, the public, policymakers, and others who are interested in education, we need something to be able to say, «This particular school is high - performing or not a high - performing school,» and then provide additional information that supports that letter grade.

This is exactly what policymakers and the interested public need if their goal is to ground early childhood programs and practice on conclusions derived from solid knowledge, both of what we know and what we don't know.

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School senior, Sahar Mohammadzadeh, executive editor of the book, asserted that beyond serving as important feedback, Ready or Not is meant for both the public and policymakers.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

«There's a subset of these conversions that aren't charters, and we shouldn't think of them as charters,» said Bryan Hassel, a co-director of Public Impact, an education reform group that works with policymakers, districts and charters.

That would be necessary because state policymakers have a responsibility to the state's taxpayers to assure that the funds are being used to promote the public interest and not just the interests of the direct beneficiaries.

Due process, not a job guarantee — this is the truth behind tenure that Kurtzhals and teachers across the country have been trying to get across to policymakers and the general public.

But public opinion can not drive justice, and policymakers, elected officials, and education leaders have a responsibility to end their silence and take action regardless.

Improvement, Not Sorting Accountability systems should be designed to provide useful and appropriate information for educators, policymakers, and the public.

While many policymakers, education administrators and even the organizations responsible for protecting and promoting public education have turned a blind eye or engaged in the politics of appeasement, Wendy Lecker has continued to speak the truth and promote the notion that a just society strengthens not undermines its commitment to a comprehensive public education system.

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

Like many policymakers, we feel disconnected when we hear of decisions impacting public education through the media, and not from the governor or his staff directly.

Connecticut can not have an honest debate about how to improve and handle our poorest school systems until the «education reforms» start telling the truth so that policymakers and the public actually knows what is happening in these schools.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

Raising their voices today before an advisory committee to the state Board of Education and speaking up at a legislative public hearing on Monday, teachers are making it clear that the student assessments that count in their evaluations are not a subject that should be «kicked down the road» indefinitely by Connecticut policymakers.

To do that, supporters of public schools designed to serve all children must not only work to change how politicians and policymakers view charter schools.

TNR opponents have, for years, misled policymakers and the public — not only about the «threats» posed by free - roaming cats, but about their plan going forward (again, assuming they actually have a plan).

In Andrew Revkin's article today entitled «In Greenland, Ice and Instability», there is the quote: Eric Rignot, a longtime student of ice sheets at both poles for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said he hoped the public and policymakers did not interpret uncertainty in the 21st - century forecast as reason for complacency on the need to limit risks by cutting emissions.

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums - long imprint on climate and sea levels, focuses on a characteristic of global warming that the public, and many policymakers, have not absorbed — at least according to John Sterman at M.I.T.

Framing carbon removal as a «third way» risks even further «neglect [of carbon removal] in political negotiations and public debate,» (as you write in the article) as policymakers might see carbon removal as a distraction to prolong business - as - usual production of GHG emissions, which it clearly is not.

Why aren't more mainstream climatologists admitting that the certainty about climate change is much less than the public and policymakers were led to believe, and why aren't more of the pathetic cowards willing to admit the travesties that some of their colleagues took with the scientific method?

I hope you can grasp the distinction and also see how «CAGW» is not a «concept invented by skeptics», but rather a premise being sold to the public and policymakers by IPCC.

His talk presents the interpretation of the science in the context of a policymaker concerned about the public's interests, in contrast to the tendency of scientists to generally not want to say something assertive until we have two - standard deviations of significance (so 20 to 1 odds in our favor, and, even more than that, because we also want two standard deviations of significance that no other explanation is possible, so another 20 to 1 odds in our favor).

This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.

Our models can become «seductive simulations,» as sociologist of science Myanna Lahsen put it, [3] with the modelers, other scientists, the public, and policymakers easily forgetting that the models are not reality but must be tested by it.

What many don't realize (i.e., politicians, policymakers and the public alike) is that NOAA adjusts the monthly historical climate records every single month.

But, with the help of the Rose article and others like it, the public and policymaker perception will increasingly be, «What's the point, there ain't no stinkin» warming!»