Sentences with phrase «national imperatives for»

NRC, Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007.

7 July 2015 Annual AAAS - Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society Focus: The National Imperative for Big Science: Is There Still One?

This list also underscores the national imperative for all states to continuously work to ensure that their public education finance systems are meeting the needs of all students and the demands placed on local districts, schools and educators.

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The second is the president's habitual misstatements of facts and statistics that I really think have caused the court to look upon his claims about the national - security imperative for this order with great skepticism.»

It is an imperative — an American, national imperative — that we as an intelligence agency deliver the information to our senior leaders such that they can resolve this issue in a way that works for the American people.»

«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

It is imperative to strengthen the Public Accounts and Finance committees of Parliament to play their oversight responsibilities more effectively; and also to develop a mechanism for effective synergy and coordination between the Monitoring Units of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Office of the President.

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

According to the President, «The need for community input to policing and crime management in Nigeria has even become more imperative considering our current national security challenges in which kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, transnational crimes, terrorism and other organized crimes have evolved to threaten our national values and developmental strides».

The Governor stressed that this legislation was a moral imperative and should be seen not only as a priority for New York, but as a national priority.

That made the second coming of Muhammadu Buhari an imperative for national salvation.

It is therefore imperative for all Ghanaians including the government and the governed to uphold the virtue of selflessness in order to attain our desired objective of putting our beloved country at the forefront of national development.

In the statement by his media office, Atiku stated that it was imperative for the national leadership of the party to respect internal democracy and democratic tenets, warning that «you can not break your own rules without creating problems.»

Ms. Hickey, who has worked extensively with Republicans in swing districts, said the urgent imperative for many of them was «getting away from the national message.»

«It became imperative for the National Working Committee to ensure an all - inclusive state executive is put in place to avoid going to war with a divided army.

These kinds of incentives are imperative for protecting our economic, energy and national security and providing business certainty.

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, responded that the military's biofuels effort is imperative for national security to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Multiple experts from health professions expressed concerns that a lack of genomics training is hampering roll - out of genomic medicine; the report raises concerns about the current plans to reduce funding to the Health Education England (HEE) Genomics Education Programme, and instead underlines the imperative for the Government to increase support to HEE, as an essential element for the National Genomic Medicine Service.

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One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

On April 26, 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released «A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.»

Ruth Mitchell, the associate director of the Council for Basic Education, writes in Testing for Learning that «a new model of schooling is a national imperative.»

... In Australia, one could argue that the imperative for instructional leadership only (re) gained momentum in the context of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests introduced in 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other information).

The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities, a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision for the need and imperative of world language instruction.

April 2018 marks 35 years since the National Commission on Excellence in Education, formed by then — Secretary of Education Ted Bell, issued its blockbuster report on education in America entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.

Then, in 1983 along came A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform from President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education to tip the scales.

At the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) we believe that as states transition to the Common Core, it is imperative that the implementation of these new standards include policies and supports that increase the amount of time teachers have for collaboration and professional development.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiencFor example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiencfor Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiencfor meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiencfor students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

Theory - building that transcends parochial national boundaries and speaks to the global nature of the Journal's diverse audience is imperative for this current phase.

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

The MAC has published Assessment Literacy Standards: A National Imperative, numerous tools and resources for teachers and administrators and pursues collaborations with education organizations in Michigan and nationally.

As Andy heads abroad for a conference on «planetary emergencies», I'll be bringing you occasional updates from the consumptive heart of the nation's desert West, Las Vegas, where clean energy prophets and political luminaries are gathered to discuss how the imperatives of climate change, fossil fuel scarcity and national security ought to reshape our energy future.

For progressives and liberals, a carbon tax holds appeal because it will reduce local pollutants and make Washington a national leader in the collective imperative to reduce greenhouse gasses and improve public health.

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

-- Prof. Robert Costanza, VC's chair in public policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University «This book has the power to induce policy changes that are imperative for the creation of an equitable, peaceful, and sustainable future for human society.»

Climate change presents a national security imperative for us, because our dependence on foreign oil has entangled our interests with tyrants and increased our exposure to terrorism.

Both countries considered it imperative to maintain the just - in - time supply system that uses skilled Canadian labour that is cheaper due to our national healthcare monopoly (for now).

Cooperation and teamwork are imperative for success and cost - effectiveness whether handling one dimensional cases or national, multidefendant litigation.

By its question, the national court is asking, in essence, whether acts of sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape committed within the family constitute imperative grounds of public security which may justify the expulsion of a Union citizen who has lived for more than 10 years on the territory of the host Member State.

(4) A relevant decision may not be taken except on imperative grounds of public security in respect of an EEA national who: (a) has resided in the UK for a continuous period of at least 10 years before the relevant decision; or... (5) Where a relevant decision is taken on grounds of public policy or public security it shall, in addition to complying with the preceding paragraphs of this regulation, be taken in accordance with the following principles --(a) the decision must comply with the principle of proportionality; (b) the decision must be based exclusively on the personal conduct of the person concerned; (c) the personal conduct of the person concerned must represent a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society; (d) matters isolated from the particulars of the case or which relate to considerations of general prevention do not justify the decision; and (e) a person's previous criminal convictions do not in themselves justify the decision.

Globally, the dominant economic intervention affecting food pricing is national taxation on food to raise general revenue.17, 18 In Australia, the basic foods required to maintain health were mostly exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the price of these foods was expected to fall after the introduction of the new tax system in 2000.19 However, in Queensland from 2000 to 2001, the price of a basket of healthy foods increased by 12 %, more than twice that of less healthy options.20 This highlights the unpredictability of complex economic systems and the need for rigorous testing of economic solutions to increase access to healthy food.18 Such testing is imperative within remote communities, but baseline data are not readily available as Australia lacks a comprehensive food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance system.