Sentences with phrase «too narrow a focus»

«Our findings suggest that looking only at genes with misspellings related to autism might be too narrow a focus,» says Fallin.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

While those efforts are laudable, they represent too narrow a focus.

But if the charter school fight proved to be too narrow a focus to win broad support, so too might an effort focused solely on more money for schools.

«But I realized that traditional curating at a commercial gallery is too narrow a focus.

Too narrow a focus on climate change obscures the context of climate politics.

As the late Ghanian energy expert Abeeku Brew - Hammond observed, «There is an emerging consensus, based on the evidence from many energy access interventions around the world, that too narrow a focus on expanding energy delivery without adequate attention to productive uses for income generation yields little by way of socioeconomic development.»

In that case the Board emphasized that there should not be «too narrow a focus» on whether a settlement provided a full remedy» because of a faulty presumption that «the General Counsel would prevail on every allegation in the complaint.»

Matt Cutts elaborates on having too narrow a focus as an SEO in this video.

You also don't want to have too narrow a focus when you craft your LinkedIn summary.

Not exact matches

Zeroing in on a specific audience lets you get the most bang for your advertising buck, but be careful about narrowing your focus too much.

He believes his staff are less productive when they work too hard, because their focus becomes very narrow.

Or perhaps you're just looking at a list of terms that is way too unwieldy, and you have to narrow it down somehow... Google Trends can help you determine which terms are trending upward, and are thus worth more of your focus.

It was too narrow, focusing only on the relationship between employers and employees.

it's a great thing to think universally — something most Westerners don't do and instead focus on a small narrow bubble — but sometimes universal is just too big and it helps to think provincally — and certainly more practical

Your focus is too narrow.

According to Lewis, modern man lives in a tiny windowless universe, his boundaries narrowed to too small a focus.75 Through such play experiences as the reading of stories - when one could experience life «in a sense «for fun,» and with [his] feet on the fender» - Lewis believed that modern man could perhaps recapture a sense of his distant horizons, much as he once had.76 For Lewis, a story was the embodiment of, or mediation of, the «more.»

When religion tries and focus on a partic * lar add * ction, the focus is too narrow.

Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»

Through time the focus on homosexuality became judged too narrow, and thus the discussion was broadened to include clergy morality in general.

For years my focus on this club was far too narrow, wasting countless hours discussing issues that only pertained to the most recent of games.

That approach was effective for a time but was somewhat too narrow and tactical, focusing largely on the crisis du jour.

Mr McCarthy said teaching was the «foundation for civilised society» but suggested the curriculum was too narrow and the focus of the curriculum could be in the wrong place.

The focus on the impact on wages is far too narrow.

The focus on diversity is too narrow, too superficial.

But there was also internal Labour criticism that he lacked the leadership skills to take the party back into power and that his focus on issues such as zero - hours contracts and taxing the rich was too narrow.

In 2001 and 2005 we were a narrow party - focusing too much on issues like Europe, immigration and tax.

Its capabilities are even beginning to seem a little limited: its mirror is too small, its focus too narrow, its heat too obscuring, its near - Earth neighborhood too crowded.

Working long hours in the lab and at a computer, focused on a too - narrow project, took its toll on my passion for bench science.

Hamilton and her co-authors say one reason for this mismatch may be that policymakers have too narrow of a focus on solving an «end - of - pipe» problem — food waste.

Pan's paper, it seemed, was too narrow, only focusing on using channelrhodopsin to restore vision, while Boyden's paper took the broad view of thinking of channelrhodopsin as a tool for neuroscience in general.

Whether you're afraid you'll go hog - wild on the margaritas and mini hot dogs or that people will comment that you're not, isolating yourself to focus on weight loss - related pursuits is a red flag that your focus is getting too narrow.

That way I don't pigeon hold myself into too narrow of a focus.

Well, maybe as long as he is not too ambitious, focuses on a narrower plot line, and has only one / two main characters.

But unlucky for me that often means my range of focus is too narrow.

Nostalgia for the 1980s has been too narrow in scope lately, focusing on genre pieces featuring kid characters in the horror remake «It» and Netflix sci - fi series «Stranger Things.»

Assessment focuses on shifting from too narrow measurement of skills in the past to measuring what truly matters today.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

What I'm not ready to concede is the larger point: Our focus on college is still too narrow because it overlooks other critically important steps on the ladder to the middle class.

I think all too often the narrow focus on what can be easily tested (and what schools are held accountable for) has a retrograde effect on depth of learning in the classroom.

The report highlighted that «students are spending too much time preparing for and taking tests,» teachers were «teaching to the test,» and the narrow focus on ELA and math has «diminished the joy in learning, inhibited creativity, and taken time away from other subjects.»

«We potentially run the same risk of narrowing our focus to the end - point assessment and focusing too heavily on preparing for it.

For years, critics have complained that the law's focus on test scores offers far too narrow a picture for judging school quality.

The effort to insist on «assessment boundaries» — which narrow the focus of a standard by setting a ceiling on the content that can be assessed — in connection with every standard often leads to a «dumbing down» of what might actually be learned about a topic, seemingly in the interest of «one - size - fits - all» science that won't be too challenging for students.

So, it's important that L&D professionals, when brainstorming LMS - related decisions, don't work with a narrow focus of a traditional learning platform but take such things into consideration too.

The booming private tuition market is a symptom of the problem with an education system that is becoming too heavily focused on attainment in exams and tests and in a narrow range of so - called «core» subjects.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

He said there was a fear that accountability measures at the end of the Foundation Phase - which aimed for a less formal learning approach - were inhibiting the ability of schools «to be true to its principles, narrowing the focus too much, too soon».