Sentences with phrase «shaping public thinking»

Environmental NGOs are a primary source of information for the public on environmental issues, and play an important role shaping public thinking on conversations and decisions around climate change.

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«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

A new study finds the nation's public pension plans are in worse shape that originally thought due to sketchy accounting practices.

In North America we always have thought of our press as the basic medium for the free and open discussion of ideas, the extension of the soap - box, the essential element which makes possible the shaping of public opinions and decisions.

Plus, whether you nurse in front of your own kids or not shapes what they think about seeing women breastfeed in public, so I'd say the problems start at home on this one.

Behavioural science thinking is now shaping public policy, so Robert Cialdini's book Influence.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is being targeted for budget cuts by lawmakers and an influential conservative think tank whose findings have helped shape the Trump administration's still - forming budget.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

Dear Editor, I noted with consternation and amusement that there was a letter in the Saturday, April 21st edition of Kaieteur News, titled «We await the CCJ Ruling» — consternation because I don't share the view that a President can shape our future all on his or her own, and amusement because I have been rendered speechless by the politics of this Dear Land, and would only write a letter to a newspaper if I wanted to be on public record as having held a particular position on a matter I thought was of particular import.

The public thinks as our readers think, and our readers» understanding is shaped by the facts and figures Ed Next reports.

New media has not been immune to propaganda; in fact it has fast become the main method of shaping public opinions and thoughts.

After all, reformers (along with traditionalists) go on an on about the importance of «teacher's voice» in shaping the transformation of American public education — even though the reality of how teachers work (in silos, out of sight of one another, often without the strong subject - matter competency needed to help kids succeed) makes them far less expert on education than they may think.

While a full - scale roll back is unlikely, another professor in IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs thinks there's room for Ritz to shape Bennett's policies so they're more favorable for schools and teachers.

«Free» to those at the top who've been cut loose from regulation, collective bargaining, and taxation; for them, a real free for all to shape not only policy but the way the public thinks about policy, to perpetuate this massive hoax.

This book about Kozol's experiences as a young teacher in the Boston Public Schools «shaped my thinking and reporting more than any other book,» veteran education reporter John Merrow says.

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public to foster radical imagination, empathy, and positive social change.

Conceived as a think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street Arts Center invites artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public.

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public.

I viewed Williams's 1961 Painter's Notebook, in the collection of the New York Public Library, and I remember thinking that his «Name a shape...» poem would be an interesting starting point for a group show.

They made me think about museums as more than showcases, as institutions that wielded power and shaped public understanding of what art was by virtue of what was left off the walls, not just what was on display.

In this thought - provoking conversation, hosted by the Leadership Advisory Committee, contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall and art historian Kymberly Pinder discussed how artists have shaped the public reception of African American art history through their writings and other activist gestures.

I think a line needs to be drawn around publicly funded research that is being used to shape public policy.

Many recipients had ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a wide collection of conservative state - based think tanks and media organizations that focus on shaping public policy and opinion.

That legislation and public discourse, revealed as well, an attitudinal tone which in part, shaped what Canadians thought about their political system and its institutions.

By checking out these reports, you can read what is shaping the public's thoughts on real estate.