Sentences with phrase «progress on the consensus»

The aforementioned tactics were designed to halt and hide progress on the consensus of climate scientists, and to confuse the public and media.

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The last Scaling Bitcoin conference drove down the price of bitcoin as the trading community saw a lack of progress in reaching consensus on the block size debate.

For these people the EU is a brake on progress: it is too slow and cumbersome, reliant as it is on face - to - face meetings, consultation and consensus, rules and procedures.

politics.co.uk understands negotiations within the Lead Ammunition Group, which has been seeking consensus to provide advice to ministers on the risks to wildlife from lead ammunition for the last 18 months, are making limited progress.

In a recent article for the Labour modernisers» house journal, Progress, the blogger and former Labour Party staffer Hopi Sen commented on the growing consensus within and without the Conservative Party that a Tory loss at the 2015 General Election would trigger the end of David Cameron's leadership.

It's been six years since the Race to the Top Initiative, and there's still no consensus on whether the key ideas behind those reforms are producing progress.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available.»

There seems to be some consensus that teacher effectiveness centers on student growth — the amount of social, emotional and academic progress a student makes over the course of a year.

This diverse group collectively shares the goal to review the progress of participating novice teachers based on data collected and presented to the panel by the consulting teacher and principal and to determine, through consensus, a recommendation regarding employment status of those teachers.

If we hope to make collective progress in education, it would help to have consensus on the primary mission of the schools.

As evidenced by the U.S. Department of Education's recent move to allow states flexibility in using growth models to calculate average yearly progress, there is a growing consensus that indicators of teacher effectiveness should be based on student growth rather than on predetermined levels of performance.

Overstatement of confidence, active efforts to suppress publication of differing technical analyses, insistence on consensus, over-egged frightening scenarios, and admonitions from one climate scientists to others to «stay on message», are ALWAYS going to be detrimental to scientific progress.

From my own reading on the history of science, antagonism and skepticism are essential to good science and to scientific progress in general, and scientific consensuses are more frequently wrong than right especially when the experimental evidence is ambiguous, and impede scientific progress more often than not.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

But clearly, the group's consensus, based on conversations with more senior non-partner colleagues, indicated continuous progress being made to accommodate this reality.

Significant progress has been made with its proof - of - stake (PoS) consensus protocol development through the testing of Casper on the Ethereum testnet.

The circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.

If progress is to be made in this field, future studies should reach toward a consensus by using validated measures based on supported conceptualizations of what therapeutic alliance is [34,41].

The models used in NSW differ from those established in other states in that, the participants actually sit in a circle, it is not usually held in a formal court setting, the circle attempts to achieve consensus on the sentence and the circle reconvenes, a few months later, to review the progress of the offender or status of the sentence.