Sentences with phrase «national commission on»

Until recently she was a co-chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy.

The bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) pulled together the findings of seven climate change impacts studies conducted... Continue reading →

While working under the aegis of the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, Manomet spent five years studying forest indicators by working with landowners in New England and in forest communities across the nation to better understand how best to select and use indicators to support sustainable forestry.

The National Commission on Energy Policy pointed out some of the problems with most current biodiesel «produced from rapeseed, soybean, and other vegetable oils - as well as... used cooking oils.»

It is because of such complications that the National Commission on Energy Policy concluded in its December, 2004, report «Ending The Energy Stalemate» («ETES») that «hydrogen offers little to no potential to improve oil security and reduce climate change risks in the next twenty years.»

The National Commission on Energy Policy has seconded those concerns.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

Janet Larsen, «Setting the Record Straight: More than 52,000 Europeans Died from Heat in Summer 2003,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 26 July 2006); National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004).

The Alliance to Save Energy's National Commission on Energy Efficiency Policy last week proposed a set of efficiency steps for buildings, industry, and transportation that it concluded would reduce U.S. carbon - dioxide emissions by one third, while cutting household energy costs, reducing energy imports, and increasing GDP.

In January a national commission on transport policy recommended that the government should invest at least $ 225 billion each year for the next 50 years.

In addition to his AAHA connections, Dr. Welborn has been affiliated with numerous other professional veterinary organizations throughout his career, including the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues, Veterinary Council for Preventative Healthcare and the Florida Veterinary Medical Association.

Dieter is a member of, and has attended conference presented by, the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues, North American Veterinary College Administrators Association, National Conference on College Cost Accounting, Veterinary Management Group, Peer Best Practices, Banfield Industry Summit, University HealthSystem Consortium and the UF PETS Advisory Board.

«Payment is not something that dominates the day - to - day thought processes of many veterinarians because they have so many things going on,» said Howard Rubin, chief executive officer of the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues.

The National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues offers some helpful benchmark tools at its Web site, (www.ncvei.org), to assist practitioners in selecting the best payment options for their hospitals, the Commission

Just over half of veterinarians who responded to a recent survey conducted by the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues (NCVEI) reported that patient visits for the first nine months of 2010 were down compared to the same period in 2009.

From 2000 - 2001, Donlin's role at the AVMA also included serving as interim CEO of the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues, where she oversaw the establishment of the commission as a nonprofit organization.

May 2, 2011 By: Karen Felsted, DVM, CPA, CVPM, MSChapter 7 of a nine - part video series about the Veterinary Care Usage Study by Dr. Karen Felsted, CEO of the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues.

For example, the PA role requires formal education through a program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, passing of the PANCE exam administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, 100 hours of CME every 2 years, and recertification through a written examination every 6 years.

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

President Obama established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to propose recommendations to cut excess spending and balance the nation's budget.

§ Physician Assistants must be certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or be eligible to take the exam offered by the NCCPA and work under the direction of a physician in the area of primary care and / or behavioral health.

She was the first woman elected to chair the American Association of Port Authorities, and, as Executive Director of the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation, was the primary author of the Commission's 1994 Report to Congress.

The need for «real» PLCs is reinforced in a report released by Learning Forward and the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, Moving from Compliance to Agency: What Teachers Need to Make Professional Learning Work, which reported that more than 1,600 teachers surveyed characterized their professional development as irrelevant, ineffective, and «not connected to their core work of helping students learn.»

In 1996, the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) published an influential report entitled What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, outlining a vision of reform for teacher preparation programs, among other measures, to improve teacher quality (Hunt, 1996).

When I was a member of the National Commission on Time and Learning, I co-edited our report to the nation, Prisoners of Time, which attempted to generate a quantum leap in thinking about schooling.

Those of us who served on the National Commission on Time and Learning thought that a new metaphor was within reach: performance standards.

Standards - based reform traces its roots to the 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell's National Commission on Excellence in Education.1 With its warning of a «rising tide of mediocrity,» notions of excellence, achievement, and accountability became the primary goals of state and federal education policy.

A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, US National Commission on Excellence in Education, April 1983.

Summary: In this groundbreaking report, the National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges argues that writing has been shortchanged in the school reform movement of the past twenty years and must now receive the attention it deserves.

WASHINGTON, DC — February 26, 2015 — Teacher Quality Partnership Grantees will be sharing innovative strategies from educator preparation programs as well as best practices in residencies during roundtable discussions hosted by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) and the Georgia State University College of Education on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015.

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, New York City: to help 12 states reform their systems of teacher preparation, licensing and certification.

In 1987, the National Commission on Excellence in Educational Administration, which included education - school deans and then - governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton, issued a report that said 60 percent of the nation's principal preparation programs were so abysmal that they should be shut down.

Chestnut Hill, MA: National Commission on Testing and Public Policy.

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (1996, 1997), for example, states that only 500 of the nation's 1200 teacher preparation programs meet common professional standards.

He has also served as a member of the National Commission on Governance, Education Commission of the States, Educational Leadership Advisory Council of the Wallace - Readers Digest Funds, and as a consultant to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) and Georgia State University (GSU) developed a model for induction of new teachers in urban high need schools.

Did the report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (A Nation at Risk) have school choice as one of its recommendations?

«It's certainly not going to improve education,» said Stanford professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who co-directed the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, directed President Obama's 2008/2009 education transition team, and last month testified for the Vergara defense.

In a new report issued August 10, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) calls for reorganizing schools to better cultivate deep learning for all students.

(National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983)

In February 2011, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed members of the congressionally - chartered national Commission on Educational Equity and Excellence to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Education and the nation.

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Karen Cheeks [email protected] 240-233-4110 NCTAF & ConsultEd Strategists Release New White Paper on Teaching for Deeper Learning Deeper Learning Competencies Serve as «North Star» for New Vision of Teaching WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feb. 2, 2016 — The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) and ConsultEd Strategists released a white paper today...

Learning Forward and the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) are pleased to announce that Agents for Learning (A4L) teams interested in participating in the competition can now download a full set of criteria that raters will use to score applications to determine finalists.

In my 12 years as the President of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, I have been fortunate to work with a dedicated team of people, who are and have been determined to transform schools infused with factory - era teaching into 21st century learning organizations that engage students in deeper learning to meet the challenges of a global economy.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Karen Cheeks [email protected] 240-233-4110 SFUSD Superintendent Named a Commissioner of NCTAF WASHINGTON, DC — September 8, 2014 — Richard A. Carranza, the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), has been named a commissioner of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF).

In the past month, the Aspen Institute announced the formation of a new National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, whose goal is to help schools better teach SEL skills along with traditional academic subjects.

WASHINGTON, DC — May 13, 2015 — The National Commission on Teaching and...

The Alliance for Excellent Education and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) will join forces with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to host a joint U.S. release of the OECD's new report Supporting Teacher Professionalism.

57) National Commission on Excellence in Education.