Sentences with phrase «public think u.s.»

On average, the public thinks U.S. students rank about 19th internationally, just a bit better than the 25th place that a test administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.

Not exact matches

The 2016 U.S. presidential election heightened public awareness of a concept known as the «filter bubble,» coined by Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser and explored in his 2011 book The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think.

You'd think that after the hue and cry of that scandal, the U.S. automobile industry would have learned from GM's financial, legal, and public relations nightmare wouldn't happen again.

Given that fundamental aspects of how the Internet works are being decided by the PMO, Shade and Moll say it's up to the public to get Canadian politicians «up to speed» on net neutrality the way the American public did in the U.S. To date, there is scarce indication that any of the major parties are thinking about the issue; McArthur says a letter to his Conservative MP in Edmonton didn't even generate a standard response letter.

Well I'm sure there is no way you ant to prove that here on the blog but I'm equally certain that the next time you walk into a U.S. public classroom you'll have that thought in the back of your mind «I'm breaking the law»

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

So effectively has the U.S. broadcast industry hidden behind the First Amendment that they have persuaded the public to think that the Constitution intended to protect the broadcasters rather than the public.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

I just know I personally would not send my kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state of the U.S. economy and public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

On this much, most agree: That the Supreme Court took McDonnell's case means a good number of the justices think that U.S. public corruption law is worth examining.

Jennifer Rodgers, former assistant U.S. Attorney and current executive director of the Center For The Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia University, told Gotham Gazette that after reviewing the state statutes and Sugarman's report, she thinks there is good reason to believe the law was violated, but admitted there is enough discretion that a district attorney may decide there is not enough hard proof of intent.

Paterson aspired to high public office — although, he has said, he wanted to be U.S. senator from New York, an easier job than being governor — so you may think that he was pretty lucky to be in the right place when Eliot Spitzer got caught in that prostitution scandal.

«Nobody argues these are the kinds of changes that are necessary, and I think that's why the public has probably rightly given up on Albany's political elite reforming itself, and all eyes remain on [U.S. Attorney] Preet Bharara.»

The survey also explored whether people think public reporting requirements would improve health care in the U.S.»

And I think that this combination of his public service in Washington — he advised, for example, presidents on developing [the] U.S. Park System, protecting U.S. national monuments.

That thought was seconded by Laura Baldwin, a public health analyst with the U.S. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fed Up (Director: Stephanie Soechtig)-- Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30 - year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see «Reform Agenda Gains Strength,» features, Winter 2013).

Or as Buttenwieser says, summing up what he thinks the degree is for: «It's training the next Arne Duncan,» referring to the U.S. secretary of education, who Buttenwieser says created many successful reforms in Chicago, where he served as CEO of the public school system before joining the Obama administration.

This survey reveals a U.S. public that continues to support its public schools, but also one that wants these schools to become more effective and is willing to endorse a wide variety of reforms it thinks will bring that about.

It is crucial to recognize that «reformers,» not educators, have driven this shift: In a 2008 survey, for instance, education pollsters Steve Farkas and Anne Duffett asked, «For the public schools to help the U.S. live up to its ideals of justice and equality, do you think it's more important that they focus equally on all students regardless of their backgrounds or achievement levels... or disadvantaged students who are struggling academically?»

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in U.S. education.

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Although there are lots of ideas these days about how to improve U.S. public schools — a number of which are under renewed scrutiny — Jason Kamras thinks he's got a simple solution.

No phalanx of foundations and / or think tanks champions U.S. public education.

Third Way: Third Way is a centrist public policy think tank that offers fresh thinking and modern solutions to the most challenging problems in the U.S.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is encouraging projects to make the Build America Bureau their first stop when thinking about accessing federal credit programs, or if they are interested in pursuing other innovative finance strategies a public private partnership.

As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between the U.S. and Iraq, if you could pick one thing that could be better understood or known by the American public about that country, what would it be?

As you may know, Project Gutenberg of Europe just celebrated the completion of their 400th eBook, and I think you will be greatly surprised to find out how many of these are included in the U.S. public domain listings.

The story is framed by the U.S. State Department's blacklists during WWII, and Vázquez uses this practice as a parallel for the personally concealed blacklist — thoughts that are never made public but are still devastating.

** Oddly, neither Anne of Windy Poplars nor Anne of Ingleside is in public domain in the U.S. I say «oddly,» since they are numbers 4 and 6 of an 8 - book series; logically, you would think it would be books 7 and 8 which were not in public domain.

I think it gives the comics a better chance of being read, because in terms of style, of stories, of artwork, a lot of these comics match the tastes of the U.S. public.

San Francisco Art Institute Founded in 1871, SFAI is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art in the U.S. Focusing on the interdependence of thinking, making, and learning, SFAI's academic and public programs are dedicated to excellence and diversity.

Probing a little - studied period of the painter's career (1951 — 1953), the exhibition culls more than 40 rare Pollock works, including some once thought to be missing, coaxed from public and private collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

It's not that the voters are too «stupid», it's that (at least in the U.S.), the dominant culture doesn't place a high value on thinking scientifically, so the public schools don't emphasis science, resulting in abysmally low levels of scientific meta - literacy in the electorate.

I think the distortion of science is greater in global climate change articles because there is no government agency taking responsiblity for providing essential information and education for the media and public, in the U.S..

My fear is that how public communication in the report is defined is somewhat analogous to how democracy building is often thought of relative to foreign policy: The U.S. invests in democracy building in countries, but the implicit goal and assumption is that the outcome will lead countries to be direct allies of the U.S..

I think my situation is similar to what others have to deal with, in part a result of what skeptics Inhofe, Crichton, Christy and Pielke Sr. have said, and in larger part due to what's not been said, or allowed to be said, by managers of federal and state offices having responsibilities in public safety throughout the U.S. I think it criminal.

Happer said he testified last spring before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and was asked if he thought global warming was a hoax.

He doesn't think the U.S. District Court tutorial will substitute for a full public debate, but it could help air some key areas of dispute, he said.

Yet this tag doesn't just apply to those who assert the whole concept is a fraud — such as President Trump, who has suggested it might be a ploy by the Chinese to hamstring the U.S. economy — but even to scholars like Danish author Bjorn Lomborg, who believes in climate change but thinks its impact is being deliberately exaggerated to scare the public into backing extreme and ineffective measures.

A number of scholars from top U.S. universities have written an open letter to incoming students, urging them to embrace critical thinking and resist the «tyranny of public opinion.»

RG: I think there's been a real sea change in public opinion in the U.S. during the last year and a half, or two years.

A UCS investigation showed that the U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the fossil fuel industry funders behind climate change contrarian think tanks.

«Maybe we want to start thinking of trees as part of our public health infrastructure,» says one U.S. Forest Service researcher.

In fact, Lusk thinks the problem of U.S. obesity is so great, that she has gotten a green light from Harvard's School of Public Health to pursue the creation of of legislation in the next Transportation Reauthorization Bill to require putting at least 10 miles of cycle tracks in each U.S. state.

You can see that Brown v. Board — was it May 14, 1954, I think — said we have to desegregate schools, but U.S. public schools are as racially segregated now as they were in 1968, which is bad because most of the southern states did not begin full integration until the mid -» 60's.