Sentences with phrase «build policy reforms»

The goal, the authors write, «is not to just tinker around the edges but to build policy reforms that re-envision the lab system.»

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He earned these accolades by guiding the country through the worst of the recession, building a reputation as an expert on complex financial reform, and snagging the top spot at the Financial Stability Board, an international body crafting new policies for global finance.
While China is usually singled out for its policies, other countries have behaved more irresponsibly, most notably rich Germany, whose surpluses, the largest in history, were built primarily on an undervalued currency, after the creation of the euro, and on weak wage growth, after the 2003 — 05 labor reforms.
Draghi offered a handful of reasons, but also noted that while monetary policy can build the foundation for growth, it's up to government policy to implement vital structural reforms, a point he has stressed on many occasions.
The spending review also needs to end the current dither and delay on industrial policy and put in place long - term reforms to build a One Nation economy for the future.
In the housing workshop I was really impressed by how much Jack Dromey's team are listening to party members and the wider community and are developing really promising policies on planning reform, building more homes and tackling the many challenges faced by tenants in the private rented sector.
We must mobilize all our resources at all levels to address this behavioral, physical, and public health challenge — with understanding and support, policy and insurance reforms and coalition building.
Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico who has built a broader profile in part by focusing on immigration reform issues nationwide and in the city, said the policy would target women and children who were fleeing «horrific violence» at home.
Policies vary from the emotive debate to end secure tenancy for life for future social housing tenants, via plans to financially reward councils that build new homes, to reforms to the housing benefit and planning system.
If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.
The Clean Energy Fund and the Reforming the Energy Vision policies will help achieve these renewable energy goals while building New York into an economic powerhouse.
I've seen it change people's lives and am convinced Labour could have built a powerful policy platform around a welfare reform programme that protects the vulnerable but also encourages, rewards and champions work.
Baton Rouge, LA About Blog SMPL is an organization dedicated to statewide coalition building, sound policy research, education and advocacy for substantive marijuana law reform in Louisiana.
It currently lobbies the Florida Legislature, the governor's office, and the Florida Department of Education on education reforms to build on and protect the policies that were passed while he was in office.)
For thirty years, Don Hirsch has tried to capture the attention of America's policymakers, policy thinkers, educators, and philanthropists to persuade them to undertake perhaps the one reform we've never tried: the widespread adoption of a coherent, sequential, content - rich curriculum that intentionally and efficiently builds knowledge and skills.
With these strengths and challenges in mind, the OECD sets out an ambitious reform agenda covering three key areas: promoting equity; building capacity for teaching and learning; and policy steering, accountability and school improvement.
Once a certain degree of policy adequacy is in place (reasonably smart laws around autonomy and authorizing, decent - enough funding), the difference between good sectors and great sectors boils down to the «ecosystem» built by the local reform community.
Based on the essay «Building a New Structure for School Leadership,» from Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Richard Elmore's book, School Reform from the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance (Harvard Education Press, 2004).
Refocus schools on building deeper learning competencies by supporting policy reform to improve education goals, assessment, accountability and practice.
At a recent panel discussion held at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the organization, Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (BBA), panelists called for policy reforms to address the impact of poverty on schools, students, families, and neighborhoods.
This policy plan for Australia's schools builds on the reforms delivered under Students First and focuses on:
The FairTest report concluded: «Activist parents, students and educators have good reason to be energized by these victories... To build the political power needed to win more significant legislative and policy changes, the nationwide assessment reform movement must expand and diversify.
Many scholars consider such market - based reform trends to be threats to the democratic culture that schools were once championed for creating., Scholars suggest that rather than building a democratic culture, such policies support business interests in lieu of citizenship.
The study, released by a group that advocates for environmentally - sound buildings, is meant to draw attention to the condition of buildings that on weekdays house some 56 million students and teachers — more than one - sixth of the U.S. population — but that nevertheless attract little attention in the national debate over education policy and reform.
Her research and teaching has been focused on urban school reform policy and practice, culturally relevant instruction, teacher student relationship - building practices, and civic education.
PENCE: The policies on education reform that we've articulated in Indiana are really built on a couple of principles.
Labour should not «waste political energy on undoing reforms» by Michael Gove that were built on its party policy, said Tristram Hunt.
pdf) of the reform proposals in the recovery package — many of which mirror the group's 2008 policy recommendations, and which have the potential to help build an education system that can power a thriving economy.
To advocate for teacher preparation policies, and to support the effective implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in Illinois and Indiana by building community support for teacher quality policies and other reforms.
In order to implement needed reforms, all stakeholders — especially those at the school building level — must understand the intent of policy and be engaged in the outcomes.
Through this work, ConnCAN has emerged as a leading voice for education reform, built a base of thousands of supporters across the state and secured dozens of policy wins including: the adoption of rigorous education standards, more flexibility to recruit great new teachers and a 50 - percent increase in the number of students enrolled in public charter schools.
Higher Education Finance Reform: Building a shared understanding between public policy makers and higher education leaders of the finance system challenges facing California public universities, as well as practical ways to solve them.
In response to Polis» ringing endorsement of the failed policies of the education reform industry, Michelle Rhee, the Patron Saint of the effort to privatize public education said, «I am honored to stand with the New Democrats as we seek to build a better educational system for America's children.»
Nevertheless, states are free to use all the power and authority they want as well as the other policy attributes to build the strongest standards - based reform systems possible.
It is time to move toward an approach to standards - based reform where the needs of these students are built into the very fabric of the standards and the policies that support their implementation.
Lauren Cassidy conducts research on K — 12 education reforms, with a particular emphasis on policies and innovative efforts that build district and school capacity to support teacher development and student learning.
Kerri Briggs, Director of Education Reform at the George W. Bush Institute and Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President of Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, said of Change Agents: «Our two organizations applaud the release of this timely report that will help states to ensure that a high - caliber principal leads every school in the nation... This report and the accompanying companion guide build on New Leaders» experience in the field and give states tools and strategies to reframe policies to bolster the principal talent pipeline.»
We have found little further research that builds upon and extends these early studies in the evolving context of state education policies and standards - based reform.
Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.
This book is open access under a CC BY license.In this book, Nika Gilauri reveals his formulas for government reform and economic recovery, including how to fight against corruption, reform fiscal policy and tax systems, privatize state - owned enterprises, build a welfare system for those most in need, create a competitive education and healthcare system, and streamline procurement.
Reforming regulations to encourage new building won't be easy, but city governments have policy levers at their disposal
«Reforming regulations to encourage new building won't be easy, but city governments have policy levers at their disposal to help alleviate housing affordability problems in Canada's major cities,» Green said.
The McKnight Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life for present and future generations through grant - making, coalition - building, and the encouragement of strategic policy reform.
To date, most international funding to reduce deforestation has concentrated on the important work of capacity building and policy reform.
These policy reforms, as well as India's commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, have all contributed to ambitious plans to build 175 gigawatts of renewable power capacity, much of it solar, by 2022.
The results have provided an agenda for its subsequent capacity - building, research, and policy reform efforts.
Rather than one - off projects, the plan comprises long - term, sequenced investments that mutually reinforce each other and link to other critical activities, such as policy and regulatory reform and capacity building.
Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subsidy independent clean tech sector in the United States, as moderate Republicans, industry insiders and analysts expressed keen interest in reforms that would drive production of cheaper, more innovative forms of energy.
But, in my view, such reforms need to be accompanied, if not preceded, by multilateral consensus - building processes on substantive law that go beyond the level of abstract investment law principles and that help to concretize these principles for more concrete areas of policy - making.
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