Sentences with phrase «public and policymakers who»

It is used to invoke epistemic authority, most often with the lay public and policymakers who are not necessarily equipped to challenge that authority.

But what about the editors and reporters who cover education issues — and whose work is read by the public and policymakers who are making real - life education decisions every day?

Not exact matches

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.

The interactive panel discussion, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), gathers members of the public and policymakers with researchers who will present their findings on subjects including crime, poverty and ageing.

«A knowledge broker... sits in between knowledge producers, [such as] scientists... and those who use knowledge, such as policymakers, the general public, or people working in the health domain.

But this set of skills is especially important for scientists who work with students, patients, policymakers, and the public.

«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.

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.

The lack of quick results and definite answers can be frustrating, both to the public and to policymakers, who are often pressured by their constituents to impose the «precautionary principle»: Act now and confirm the truth later.

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.

«Last year at the annual meeting of the ASA, then - president Michael Buroway called for a «public sociology» — a discipline more engaged with solving social problems and linking with artists, activists, educators, and policymakers who strive to make social change,» said Luttrell.

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.

While policymakers and pundits hotly debate the merits of vouchers, national tests, and limiting class sizes, the American public is more interested in the qualifications of the people who work most closely with students, a survey shows.

This article discusses the authors» experiences leaving their roles as teachers in public schools and then returning to teaching some time later, focusing on how these experiences expose a gap in understanding between U.S. policymakers who work on educational law and the teachers to whom educational laws apply.

Recruiting messengers such as teachers, parents, and business leaders who can speak to the importance of their local public schools and share their concerns about vouchers directly with policymakers and the media.

I was reminded this week that our goal at TCSA, to improve student achievement by advocating for and strengthening a diverse set of high quality charter schools, is shared nationwide by educators and policymakers who believe that charter schools are the best public school option for students.

At the same time, there was growing interest in teacher quality among policymakers, philanthropists and education reformers looking for ways to improve on a public education system that was reportedly failing to produce students who could compete globally.

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.

Higher Education Accountability is designed for policymakers, higher education professionals, students and faculty, or members of the public who are interested in learning more about how colleges are responding to all of the pressures that they face.

Instead of honestly acknowledging the root causes of struggling schools and investing in real equity in public education, today's policymakers and deep - pocketed corporate education «reformers» offer misguided strategies that fail to address the central problem: a failure to invest in Black, Brown and poor children, the educators who teach them and the communities in which they live.

It rests secondly with all those who can educate, or influence, the policymakers — educators, parents, community and business leaders, testing experts, state education staff, and the voting public.

Policymakers on Capitol Hill, heeding the calls of parents and teachers, have rolled back high - stakes testing and put the focus back on logical decision - making, listening to those closest to kids and targeting funding to support the children who need it most and the public schools they attend.

Our goal is to create a one - stop resource for information for policymakers, thought leaders, practitioners, the media, and others who care deeply about the state of public education and the impact of that system on students, families, and communities.

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

Is this just elbowing among scientists who are playing at the top of their games or a march - step method in approaching science that should concern the public and policymakers?

He told environmentalresearchweb that he believes there is a huge gap between what is understood about human - made global warming and its consequences, and what is known by the people who most need to know - the public and policymakers.

The question frustrates scientists and policymakers, who face a disbelieving public prone to discounting discomforting data.

In its key message to national and local policymakers this week, the WHO is urging a «lead by example» approach in addressing the «carbon footprint» of public institutions.

Despite these impacts, the magnitude of additional glacier retreat has been underappreciated by scientists, policymakers and the public, says Prof Gerard Roe from the University of Washington, who led a study in 2016 that identified shrinking glaciers as «categorical evidence» of human - caused climate change.

Their target audience: the not - so - science - literate public, college undergraduates — and oh, who knows, maybe federal policymakers.

The main point that I want to make concerns the threat of irreparable harm, which I feel we have not communicated well enough to people who most need to know, the public and policymakers.

It's students — and churchgoers, concertgoers, and other victims of gun violence — who suffer while policymakers stumble in the dark, beholden to the money the gun industry uses to influence public opinion.

The Media and Indigenous Policy project has investigated why it is so hard for a diversity of voices to be heard in mainstream media debate, and why policymakers, from political leaders to public servants, seem only to listen to those who dominate mainstream media coverage.

In the mid-1980s, three developments long in the making — a dramatic increase in out - of - wedlock childbearing, the high cost of providing welfare to young poor women who become mothers, and the difficulties faced by their children — became a focus of concern among policymakers and the public alike.

Working with a bipartisan team of national research firms — Public Opinion Strategies and the Mellman Group — Pew surveyed policymakers, voters, home visitors, and mothers who were eligible for or had participated in home visiting.