Sentences with phrase «with vested interests in»

Have their psychometric properties been reliably evaluated by independent experts that are not associated with Pearson, any foundation or university beholding to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, or others with vested interests in corporate education reform?

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

Abitz said he was simply analyzing HRI's own data to reach his conclusions, and advised Adair to be careful of conclusions reached by companies with vested interests in moving uranium mining forward.

May it serve as a warning not only to policymakers, but also to researchers, clinicians, peer reviewers, journal editors, and journalists of the need to consider the harm to scientific credibility and public health when dealing with studies funded by food companies with vested interests in the results — and to find better ways to fund such studies and to prevent, disclose and manage potentially conflicted interests,» writes Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., of New York University, in a related commentary.

Nevertheless, the authors who work for CPW or Nestlé believe that their employment with companies with vested interests in the outcome of research creates no conflict of interest.

Success can be lonely because as with Kurt and Amy you find yourself surrounded by a bubble and often a bubble with vested interests in your actions.

If business owners are like investors, healthcare providers, labor union leaders and a myriad of other people with vested interest in our policies, they're probably anxiously awaiting the results to see how their businesses — or sentiment — will fare in 2011.

The combined effect of having large check writers who can add strategic value and an army of brand evangelists with a vested interest in a startup's continued success can prove a powerful advantage of an online raise.

Our local wealth managers (mortgage brokers and financial advisers) are small business owners with a vested interest in their local community.

I agree that groups with a vested interest in maintaining the New Morality have used AIDS to push their own agendas and will thereby increase the death toll.

Other qualified scientists with no vested interest in seeing a given theory succeed or fail attempt to find flaws in the methodologies described in the source paper by replicating the processes themselves to see if they get the same results.

It is not hard to see why those with a vested interest in the church — any church — would respond to Barth's rhetoric with consternation and reproach.

If the Spaniard opts for a return to his homeland, even Marca seem shocked at the suggestion that United could target Hart as they've also been linked with having an interest in Atletico Madrid shot - stopper Jan Oblak.

I had not seen the picture of Brian Wansink in the milk ad before and have a hard time accepting studies funded by industries with a vested interest in the outcome.

They point to poorly done studies published by those with a vested interest in promoting homebirth.

Events sponsored or organised by a company with a vested interest in promoting its products clearly create conflicts of interest.

This should be from health workers who maintain their independence from companies with a vested interest in selling products.

There is a self - evident conflict of interest in having companies with a vested interest in promoting products supporting speakers and exhibiting at health worker events.

The standards announced yesterday are a major step forward, but you can count on food and beverage makers with a vested interest in profits over progress to keep up their fight to blunt efforts to feed our nation's neediest children better quality food.

Add the participation of people with a vested interest in the issue!

«Formula is a legitimate product, but it is the responsibility of health workers to advise parents, not company's with a vested interest in increasing sales and inflating prices.

But it's also possible that the White House is caving altogether, passively accepting the gutting of improved school food nutrition standards by corporations with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

The United States has a long history of maintaining a strong military, and economic infrastructure has been built up around this large military such that there are diverse parties with vested interest in keeping the level of military of spending high.

Spitzer took issue with Cuomo's strategy of putting health care players with a vested interest in the Medicaid debate — namely GNYHA and SEIU 1199 — onto the redesign team that hashed out a reform and cost - cutting strategy that included sweeteners for the industry (the indemnity fund, living wage) in exchange for accepting spending cuts.

Some part of this surely is about political journalists and rival candidates with a vested interest in keeping the «chatter» alive, but a larger part of it is arguably about the demonstrable and enduring unease with which many Republicans regard Romney.

The call to increase or «reinstate» Foundation Aid has become a misguided rallying cry for those with a vested interest in growing the education bureaucracy.

The goal of a policy deliberation is for a variety of stakeholders (i.e., people with a vested interest in a topic) to exchange views about science policy.

Research is often supported by organizations with a vested interest in the results, but because they supply the funding, those organizations inevitably set the goals.

from ExxonMobil, Phillip Morris and numerous other corporations and right - wing foundations with vested interest in the global warming debate.

However, most of these claims are based on studies funded by pharmaceutical companies with a vested interest in promoting the use of their products.

If a study was funded by people with vested interested in the outcome — a supplement company, for instance — be wary of the findings.

Categories are really geared for people with a vested interest in those respective verticals.

Complicating matters is Mathilde's live - in grown daughter, Chloe (Kristen Scott Thomas in her third outing as Smith's daughter) who naturally dislikes a disgruntled American with a vested interest in her mother's death.

On the opposite end, some academy members, particularly those with a vested interest in the outcome, know enough to rank their own movie first and their closest competitor's last.

When it comes to the actual bank operations, your best bet will be a credit union or a local bank with a vested interest in your community.

It evaluates the importance of stakeholder engagement and how firms can best manage their stakeholder relationships before assessing the different internal and external stakeholder groups with a vested interest in the activities of a business.

A year previously, a group of us — Chester Finn, Jay Greene, Marci Kanstoroom, and I — decided the country needed a new education journal, one free of all connections to institutions with a vested interest in the status quo.

Employers, colleges, universities, and others with a vested interest in the education provided by the district or BOCES.

Whitney Chapa, vice president of Education Policy and Budget at the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, tells Mississippi education leaders that, «anyone with a vested interest in the quality of education here should make sure that policymakers invoke the best practices that we laid out in...

-- Relying on rigged external reports: Other states rely on seemingly unbiased external reports by groups such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Achieve, Inc., both of which are funded by the Gates Foundation, with a vested interest in the Common Core project.

(I think we can agree that any recommendation to take both tests from a test prep company comes from a group with a vested interest in you doing so.)

The certificate's goal is to train teachers that schools need: technology savvy sincere collaborators, with a vested interest in student achievement.

EAG is a non-partisan non-profit organization with the goal of promoting sensible education reform and exposing those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Bringing the new car out on stage was someone with a vested interest in Ford getting the Bullitt right.

We're your neighbors with a vested interest in keeping you safe and confident while you're on the road.

Peer review, critique groups, freelance book doctors, etc., can all help if you're lucky enough to find the right people, but I don't think there's any substitute for what an in - house editor with a vested interest in your project can bring to the table.

It is one thing to hear a singular mortal go on a rant about what the future may hold, but its another thing to hear about it directly from the movers and shakers of the publishing world, all with a vested interest in its continued success.

Parties with a vested interest in blocking the publication and distribution of content they feel is inappropriate, inflammatory, or even just unworthy.

So, has all of the excitement about the Apple iPad amongst consumers worried those with a vested interest in Amazon Kindle?

He became concerned with such issues as: the evidence of a causal relationship between common feeding practices and serious health problems; the perceived disconnect between the nutritional requirements of felis silvestris catus and all other species of cats; an industry with a vested interest in grain as the basis for its products; a veterinary education system with little nutritional teaching, subsidized by commercial pet food industries; a questionable government concept approval and oversight process; the economic inertia of maintaining the status quo; and the rejection of science - based belief systems on the extremes of both sides of the issue.