Think about how that dumbs down the values that we americans have.
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He fears that the "belief" principle dumbs down the role of the police.
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It's sad because it dumbs down an already overcrowded group to begin with.
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This dumbs down the idea of healthy communication re: sex in a harmful way2.
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The college recruitment of athletes that dumbs down or eliminates academic standards sends the wrong message about the academy's core duty.
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Such a frame-of-mind dumbs down diplomacy as a punitive stick instead of the normal business of statecraft it really is.
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What about "classical crossover" — a genre that's perched between classical and pop music, which some people say vulgarizes or dumbs down classical music?
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On the surface, that makes Pokken sound like a game that dumbs down the experience in an attempt to lower the barrier to entry, but it still has a surprising amount of depth.
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Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says a debate between renewable energy and coal "dumbs down" the climate debate and reiterated his support for an all-of-the-above energy strategy in his country, The Guardian reports.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Saturday, saying he "dumbs down" American values.
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Factory on November 19, 2013. Sherilyn Connelly of The Village Voice criticized the synopsis on the back of the disc keep case, saying that it dumbs down the film and portrays the independent women as helpless stereotypes.
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In contrast to their reactions to the SNES and Genesis versions, GamePro panned the Game Boy release, saying it dumbs down the gameplay, loses so much graphical detail that the characters are unrecognizable, and makes the music far too pervasive. Next Generation reviewed the Genesis version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Shaq Fu includes everything a good fighting game needs, with the exception of good fighting." Retrospective criticism of the game has been generally negative. GameTrailers rated it number 4 Worst in their "Top Ten Best and Worst Video Games".
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West Windsor-Plainsboro is notable for its ongoing divide over the school district's harsh implementation of academics on its students. The controversy comes amidst Superintendent of Schools David Aderhold's plan to ease the high school curriculum following reports of students having been referred for psychological evaluation and even hospitalization for excessive stress. According to a New York Times article written by author Kyle Spencer, the divide appears to be somewhat racial, as the area has a high Asian-American population, such as Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students. Some parents have argued that such change "dumbs down" the students and hinders their overall academic experience.
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"Rick Ayers, An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform, The Huffington Post, September 17, 2010 In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations." Ayers also critiqued the film's promotion of a greater focus on "top-down instruction driven by test scores," positing that extensive research has demonstrated that standardized testing "dumbs down the curriculum" and "reproduces inequities," while marginalizing "English language learners and those who do not grow up speaking a middle class vernacular." Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized.
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