Sentences with phrase «which argued»

Speaking at the NASUWT fringe event, Tristram Hunt followed a stats - packed speech by Chris Keates, in which she argued that 40 per cent of newly qualified teachers were employed on temporary contracts and applications to study teaching qualifications were down 10 per cent.

CCSA responds to the piece, which argued for more district regulations.

In 1979, Freidman published the book Free to Choose which argued that public education should be controlled by the free market, not government.

In 2004, voters repealed a charter school law after a hard - fought campaign financed largely by the statewide teacher's union, which argued that charters would siphon money from other public schools.

That prompted a lawsuit by the teachers union, which argued the city had agreed to keep that information private.

A model one - way desegregation program begun 15 years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out by order of the local school board, which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.

I think it speaks to a much broader theme, which I argued in the article: that turnarounds seldom work in any field.

Teles cited a paper by Sheara Krvaric and Melissa Junge, in which they argued that «the multiplicity of overlapping and bewildering federal programs for K - 12 education creates a compliance mentality among school leaders, making them wary of new ideas and pushing them to focus on staying on the right side of the rules rather than on improving their schools.»

When Goldsmith tells these students about the lawsuits against mandatory community service, which argued that compulsory service amounted to involuntary servitude, they're surprised.

Moreover, many of us had read John Chubb and Terry Moe's seminal Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, which argued that democratic control was the cause of many of public education's troubles.

He put forward the idea of having one exam board for each subject, which he argued would eliminate this competition between boards and provide more consistency of grades.

When Inglourious Basterds was released, Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a scathing Newsweek essay in which he argued that Tarantino, by creating a film in which Jews exact revenge on Nazis, was equating the victim with the victimizer.

As the gang meet up with female characters, their lives as strippers actually help them make honest relationships, rather than the last film, which argued that it was harder to form a meaningful bond with anyone, when your day job was taking your clothes off for money.

In 1985 Neil Postman published a book, «Amusing Ourselves to Death, «in which he argued that of the two great dystopian novels from the first half of the 20th century — Aldous Huxley's «Brave New World» and George Orwell's «1984» — it was actually the former, whose weapon of governmental control was distraction, rather than the latter, whose weapon was dictatorship, that was the more prescient and more deadly.

Interestingly, Dr. Stuart Yaniger, one of the authors of the Environmental Health Perspectives study, responded both to Chris Kresser's post and to a post at another website (which argued for the safety of polyethylene bags or silicone bags for sous vide).7 Dr. Yaniger's response (see comment in reference 7) was instructive:

In the spring of 2007, Wise Traditions carried my article, «On the Trail of the Elusive X Factor,» in which I argued that the vitamin - like compound that Weston Price dubbed «Activator X» in the 1945 edition of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was the very same nutrient researchers now call «vitamin K2.»

«Two months before Copenhagen, [Russia's] state - owned Channel One television aired a documentary called The History of a Deception: Global Warming, which argued that the notion of man - made climate change was the result of an international media conspiracy.

It passed over the objections of southern African nations with relatively healthy elephant populations, which argued for a regulated trade.

Hyun wrote a 2006 commentary piece in Nature in which he argued that just like others who volunteer for research, women should be paid to donate eggs for stem cell studies.

Richard Benedick, president of the US National Council for Science and the Environment and a former US government negotiator, circulated a document in which he argued that the principles governing geoengineering research should be developed by a group of 14 nations, including the US, several European nations, India and China.

The Obama administration had received immense public pressure from industry and Republicans over the rule, which they argued would trample an already weak economy.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

In 1919, he sent a paper to Einstein in which he argued that by adding a fifth dimension to space - time, it was possible to show that gravity and electromagnetism were two aspects of one and the same force.

I enjoyed Max Tegmark's article on consciousness, which argued that a conscious system must strike a balance between too little...

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

In the samples taken on the Polarstern cruise, PAHs were at their lowest when PCBs were highest, which argued against burning as a source.

Forster's chapter also reports on another important uncertainty: the cooling effect of smoke and other aerosols, which some argued almost negated the warming effect of greenhouse gases in the short term.

In 2012, Hardy, now at University College London, and a colleague, geneticist Rita Guerreiro, wrote an editorial in which they argued that TOMM40 did not independently affect Alzheimer's risk.

This contradicts the findings of a 2015 study, which argued that it's the formation of bubbles that creates the popping noise, not their collapse.

Amid the chaos in Nice and Turkey during his first days in office, Johnson found time to write a column for the Sunday Telegraph in which he argued that Brexit did not mean a withdrawn global role for the UK, but a country «more outward - looking, more engaged and more active on the world stage than ever before».

The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

But he claimed none of those projects had used green space, which he argued is essential for healthy rest and recreation by NYCHA's oldest and youngest residents.

Together, the groups have urged DCP to grant the Garden only a 10 - year permit, which they argued would allow the Dolan family enough time to find a place to build a new World's Most Famous Arena.

He also proposed using the Mortgage Recording Tax, which is paid when property changes hands, to leverage the funding of capital projects, which he argued would minimize the impact of fluctuations in the real estate market.

In 2012, two years after she was first elected, she caused a stir with her book, Britain Unchained, in which she argued: «The British are among the worst idlers in the world.»

However, Quinn's use of the term «environmental racism» was slammed by Pledge 2 Protect, a lobbying group that opposes the garbage station, which argued that it would unfairly burden the Upper East Side's diverse residents.

Instead, he gave a lengthy dissertation on his conservative, free market ideals, which argued were the ideals of the party — and the ideals that GOP voters should support.

Mr. Silver's defense team argued that Mr. Bharara had «flagrant violated» publicity rules, which they argued prohibit him from making statements that may influence the outcome of the trial and limit him to discussing just the facts.

Councilman Antonio Reynoso joined former Assembly candidate Jesus Gonzalez and members of the immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action Fund to make a last - minute plea to Hispanics to vote along the Working Families Party line — which they argued is the ballot row most reflecting the interests of Latinos.

He referenced memo that leaked from one of the Espaillat - backing PACs, which argued the Dominican - American candidate would benefit if fewer African - Americans turned up at the polls.

In conclusion, Ms Patel hailed the Government's partnerships with leading charities, including Save the Children, without which she argued ministers would not be able to deliver change.

He also pointed to the 14 rezonings that have taken place in different parts of the Bronx during his six year tenure, which he argued had allowed for the construction of new affordable housing for people making both less and more than the range of incomes prescribed in the mayor's plan.

At the time, the state faced a lawsuit filed in 1993 by the nonprofit group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that the state's education funding formula was unconstitutional.

This, it said, could not be said of the APC - led administration given its alleged lopsided appointments, which it argued had aggravated the agitations for self - determination and secession by some sections of the country.

The county attorney's office said the redaction related to «private matters,» which they argued are exempt from disclosure.

Last week, NYSUT lost a lawsuit in which it argued it should be allowed to spend more than the legal $ 6,000 limit to assist Perkins.

Speaking to reporters after an unrelated event in Brooklyn, Mr. Cuomo again tore into the conditions at the shelters, which he argued are the reason so many people remain on the streets in inclement weather.

-LSB-...] not be passed onto people paying the higher rate of tax, something which we argued for at both the special conference and in our letter to Nick Clegg and Danny -LSB-...]

Mr. Meeks and Mr. Jeffries — along with Congressmen Charlie Rangel and Jose Serrano, and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and Nydia Velazquez — penned a letter to Mr. Holder calling for an immediate investigation into both the Staten Island fatality and the NYPD's «broken windows» policy, which they argued has led directly to the unfair targeting of blacks and Hispanics.

The hearing followed the release of a study on Monday by the Economic Development Corp., which argued the living wage proposal would result in between 33,000 and 100,000 job losses for the city.