Sentences with phrase «standard authorities in the field»

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I'm glad the «standard authorities» in the field finally agree on something, though this comes as news to me.

The field trials were permitted by and followed the safety standards of the DA - Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for biotechnology research and development.

And they note that, as long as states retain the authority to establish core aca - demic standards for all public schools, they have the opportunity to mitigate curricular balkanization, even in such fractious fields as social studies.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

Opponents range from those who raise legitimate questions about the field's readiness to implement to those more on the fringe who fear that common standards will usher in a federal takeover of state and local decision - making authority.

However, the case also presents a rather clear - cut case of de facto delegation of public authority in the field of technical standards.