Sentences with phrase «as policy makers»

Fortunately, today many educators — from teachers to administrators — as well as policy makers feel the same way.

This finding has a significant impact on teachers and schools as policy makers put more emphasis on the labels for performance funding, teacher evaluations and other accountability measures.

The case studies discussed in the Comment make very clear the enormous increases in power prices that would result as policy makers attempt to move the renewables grid penetration higher than that.

The awards play an important role in bringing together practitioners with education and training providers as well as policy makers.

The study's authors stressed that measuring «growth» is not as simple as policy makers think it is; and «it is certainly unwise for states or school districts to simply take haphazard or commonsense approaches to measure growth.

The decision comes as policy makers including IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warn of a global trade conflict that could undermine the broadest world recovery in years.

China has halted intervention in the stock market so far this week as policy makers debate the merits of an unprecedented government campaign to prop up share prices, according to people familiar with the situation.

China has halted intervention in the stock market so far this week as policy makers debate the merits of the government campaign to prop up share prices, according to people familiar with situation.

During a visit to Ontario several years ago, one of the authors asked a young math teacher if becoming a teacher in Canada was really as difficult as policy makers made it out to be.

As policy makers look for ways to fix the nation's failing schools, many eyes are focused on Chicago's four - year - old effort to end social promotion.

The data «explains the recent policy tightening as policy makers are getting more and more comfortable with reaching the growth target this year and have shifted towards risk management,» wrote Goldman Sachs analysts led by Maggie Wei in Hong Kong today.

That takes pressure off the central bank to cut interest rates, an important development as policy makers reiterated that «financial vulnerabilities continue to edge higher.»

The economies of the union are being gripped by political confusion as policy makers fail to develop solutions to address Greece's worsening financial crisis, El - Erian said, according to Bloomberg.

China's economic growth proved resilient in the second quarter as policy makers stepped up support and a stock market boom — since soured — spurred services.

Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer said he's «open» to the idea of using borrowed money to enhance the capabilities of a European rescue fund as policy makers turn their focus to the next steps to contain the region's sovereign - debt crisis.

the undersigned, have been empowered by the Constitution of the State of New York and appointed by the New York State Legislature to serve as the policy makers and guardians of educational goals for the residents of New York State.

Even as policy makers are considering ways to make extended school days, an extended school year, after - school tutoring and multi-tiered interventions financially possible, school leaders must help teachers make maximum use of the time they already have.

Marlene Canter has spent the majority of her career in education: first as a special education teacher, then co-founding and helping to run a teacher training company (Canter and Associates, now Laureate Education, Inc.) for 25 years, and, finally, serving eight years on the LAUSD School Board as a policy maker.

To me that's just as wrong as a politician using his status as a policy maker to proclaim the rightness of his scientific ideas.

Other measures related to the 1973 embargo, such as price controls and rationing, were eliminated decades ago, as policy makers realized that they impeded, rather than aided, American energy security.

Removing some carbon from the atmosphere could buy valuable time as policy makers and scientists explore more permanent solutions.

As policy makers start to set mandatory low energy and renewable energy requirements as conditions of planning, the ability of the construction industry to find sound low - cost ways of achieving the new standards is becoming a key factor.

I think of law makers as policy makers.

In Alberta, a survey of the Benchers revealed that they thought their most important role was to serve as adjudicators with respect to discipline matters, rather than act as policy makers.

«We need to think about these things in more holistic way, not just thinking as policy makers in a health care area but policy makers who are committed to social justice and sustainability,» he said.

Hence, it is important that the relevant administrations, such as policy makers, university administrators, counselors, academic advisors, etc., can provide suitable guidance for the students to identify various coping strategies to overcome stressful encounters during the transition to university.

The companies» profits come as policy makers once again begin to develop plans on what to do with the companies.

Ben Bain and Zachary Tracer BLOOMBERG / ARIZONA DAILY STAR January 4, 2012 MEXICO CITY — The Mexican peso, Latin America's most battered currency in 2011, is forecast to post the region's biggest gains in the next six months as policy makers... Continue reading >>

The aim of the conference is to encourage representatives from industry, academia and research as well as policy makers and individuals from civil society to enter into dialogue and thus to initiate suitable (pilot) projects.

Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop in foreign - exchange reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage global usage of the currency.

Johnson claimed earlier this year that he had changed his mind on water cannon as it was «very difficult as policy makers to say no» when the police asked him for them.

As policy makers look for ways to fix the nation's ailing schools, many eyes focus on Chicago's four - year - old effort to end social promotion.

As policy makers think about designing programs to help the minority of borrowers facing dire circumstances, they should recognize that identifying borrowers in need of assistance will be an important part of the solution.

Export data have been particularly volatile, and it is very important for us as policy makers to assess underlying trends.

As policy makers seek to fulfill the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015, effective and comprehensive restrictions on marketing practices in order to protect and support breastfeeding are imperative.

As well as being incredibly proud of our music industry, the job of government, policy makers, is to take the music industry absolutely more seriously in economic terms and figure out, as policy makers, how best to support you.

«As legislators, as policy makers, we were like, well, government has a role here too, and we should be figuring this out as well.»

s legislators, as policy makers, we were like, well, government has a role here too, and we should be figuring this out as well.»

For more than a decade these CIOB awards have played an important role in bringing together practitioners with education and training providers as well as policy makers.

Institutional leaders of the 36 Leadership Alliance members as well as policy makers and leaders in the public and private sectors convened to discuss Confronting Challenges to Diversity in the Research Workforce.

Dr. Hyman works with individuals and organizations, as well as policy makers and influencers.