Feats of engineering and exploration still get
priority over science.
Maybe not, but Longcore's essay in Conservation Biology has an agenda that takes
priority over the science (hardly surprising in retrospect — given the timing of its publication, it must have been written while Longcore was preparing for the L.A. case).
Not exact matches
She admits that though she has faced other obstacles as a researcher — including the challenge of securing funding for her projects — a new
Science Center should take
priority over other funding concerns.
When you have a young family
science does not seem to be on the list of
priorities over feeding, potty training and the reminding of please and thank you, but I truly feel it is important to start ensuring your little one, however little, becomes aware of
science, without them even realising it by learning through play.
Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's
priorities could see 350 jobs go
over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more than $ 15 million to climate and environmental
science in the 2014 — 15 federal budget.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Chief Executive Larry «Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's
priorities could see 350 jobs go
over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more than $ 15 million to climate and environmental
science in the 2014 - 15 federal budget.
They also suggest that
science won out
over domestic spending
priorities, notably federal assistance to state budgets.
A. Cho's story «Commitments, ideology clash
over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching
priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of
Science in a flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.
See https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/15/nanotechnology-inspired-grand-challenge-future-computing The Office of
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) states that, after considering
over 100 responses to its June 17, 2015, request for information, it «is excited to announce the following grand challenge that addresses three Administration
priorities — the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), and the BRAIN initiative.»
In the report, Tomorrow's World, 53 % of the teachers surveyed by YouGov for the CBI said
science teaching had become less of a
priority over the past five years.
53 % of the 260 primary school teachers surveyed by the CBI believe teaching
science has become less of a
priority over the past 5 years (32.5 % say it has not changed, 14.5 % say it is now more of a
priority)
The UK's leading business organisation has published new research showing that the majority of primary teachers believe
science has become less of a curriculum
priority, with
over a third of schools now providing less than the recommended two hours of
science education a week.
Over the past five years, the state policies have changed systematically and coherently toward Common Core and Next Generation
Science Standards alignment in all
priority areas — special education, English learners, curriculum, principal / teacher policy, waivers, college readiness, CTE, finance, and state assessments.
Not because climate scientists —
over 97 percent of whom believe that human activities influence the climate — have found new data rebutting the
science, but because polls show climate change dropping off the list of voters»
priorities.