Sentences with phrase «by policymakers who»

«The voices and expertise of teachers were heard and addressed by policymakers who did the right thing by putting the focus back where it belongs: on teaching, learning, and student achievement.»

Any stakes associated with testing policies should be shouldered not only by students and educators, but also by policymakers who have control over the educational systems in which teaching and learning occur.

Parks everywhere have clearly been designed by policymakers who don't have children.

Not exact matches

If Fed Chair Janet Yellen wants to prove that policymakers are not being pulled along by investors who for years have second - guessed them, this week may offer a rare moment of calm to do so.

The IMF's October, 2012 World Economic Outlook (WEO), «Coping with High Debt and Sluggish Growth» is a must read for anyone who wants a realistic and independent assessment of global economic prospects, the challenges confronting policymakers, and the risks to global economic growth that are increasing by the month.

President Plosser's comments were echoed by Kansas City Fed President George (another policymaker who favors earlier rate hike).

Harry Benson, a Christian from the Marriage Foundation, said many policymakers, experts and politicians - who are often more wealthy than the national average - have been hypocritical by continually saying marriage is not necessary for a stable family, while often being married themselves.

Both oppose a creeping secularism, advanced by many policymakers who operate as if the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom means freedom from religion.

The week commemorates a declaration made by World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF policymakers in August 1990 to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

The interactive panel discussion, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), gathers members of the public and policymakers with researchers who will present their findings on subjects including crime, poverty and ageing.

«Students, teachers, parents, healthcare providers, coaches, religious leaders, and policymakers all have a role to play in ending it and improving the wellbeing of youth who are affected by it.»

But I have grown increasingly exasperated over the years by postdocs who whinge about universities as employers, the research councils and others as funders, governments as policymakers — yet fail to recognise that in large measure the future lies in their own hands.

Researchers and policymakers from the United States and Africa who contributed to the supplement articles were part of the PMTCT Implementation Science Alliance, created and supported by the NIH and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to investigate the role implementation science can play in enhancing the quality and effectiveness of PMTCT efforts.

issues related to energy subsidy reform and the challenges faced by policymakers, who must find ways to reduce direct energy subsidies without undermining domestic political support.

The lack of quick results and definite answers can be frustrating, both to the public and to policymakers, who are often pressured by their constituents to impose the «precautionary principle»: Act now and confirm the truth later.

There is a growing demand for preventative care solutions — including advanced diagnostic services — by physicians, hospitals, clinics, insurers, policymakers and employers who are seeking to address the epidemic of costly life - threatening and chronic conditions; True Health Diagnostics anticipates rapid growth and the creation of additional high quality jobs for North Texans in 2015.

In fact, buttressed by the support of the business community and many local and regional newspapers (who are even more distant from the realities of schooling than state policymakers), SED officials have tended to characterize those who question their initiatives as «whiners and complainers.»

Payne's book is brilliant and should be read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.

The program development and evaluation effort should be overseen by an independent, objective group of experts who will not only provide technical support, but will also ensure that the design, implementation, and interpretation of the work is scientifically sound as well as useful to educators and policymakers.

When I suggest that talkers and doers need to listen to those who see things differently, that policymakers are well - served by humility, or that reform needs to work for teachers as well as students, it's not because I want everyone to get along.

Enter Usable Knowledge — a project that will take new ideas and innovative solutions generated by our faculty and our students and put them in the hands of teachers, principals, superintendents, policymakers, and others who can have a real impact on students, schools, and education more broadly.

We recommend to policymakers who are frustrated by negative views of a policy to ascertain whether there are widely - held misconceptions about the policy.

But what about the editors and reporters who cover education issues — and whose work is read by the public and policymakers who are making real - life education decisions every day?

People — who often rely on intuition instead of reason, make inconsistent choices over time, and can be overloaded by information — are the clients who receive services, the staff who provide them, and the policymakers who create them.

One can imagine that in this state of the world policymakers would soon come under pressure to «do something» about elevated default rates caused by borrowers who can repay their loans.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

Last year, this series profiled Educators for Excellence founders Evan Stone and Sydney Morris, who launched Educators for Excellence in New York City and state to engage teachers in education policy issues and provide a platform for teacher voices to be heard by policymakers and the media — with the ultimate goal of elevating the profession and ensuring that teacher expertise informs smart education policy choices.

I was reminded this week that our goal at TCSA, to improve student achievement by advocating for and strengthening a diverse set of high quality charter schools, is shared nationwide by educators and policymakers who believe that charter schools are the best public school option for students.

An iNACOL Issue Brief by Dale Frost and Maria Worthen provides an overview of competency - based education and offers state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to enable and support competency - based education.

The report was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press as the groups behind the study began distributing it to state legislators, other education policymakers and teachers who took part in the focus groups.

As part of this vision, the NTC scales high quality teacher induction services to a national audience and works closely with educators and policymakers nationwide to serve low - income students, minority students, and English language learners, who are otherwise often taught by inexperienced teachers.

While policymakers may debate the utility of such comparisons, such comparisons are better supported by the available data than are comparisons between teachers who work with very different subsets of students and under different conditions.

In each case, national policymakers stepped in to help students who were ill - served by locally - run schools.

In this paper, co-authors Kim Smith and Julie Petersen examine the demand for innovation by educator and student users, school and district buyers, policymakers, and others who provide funding for educational goods and services, like foundations and even parents.

Traditionally, states have measured this by the number of students who qualify for free or reduced lunches «but that method is «quickly unraveling» and if left unchanged could have dire consequences for education policymakers and researchers.»

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

I think in chinese centrl and region goverment, the policymakers who realize the envrionmental problems is real problem and basic problem are few, all be attricted by weststyle economic developing.

However, by and large, the planners, builders, investors, and policymakers who should be facilitating future infrastructure — both physical and institutional — seem paralyzed, caught in capital's short horizons.

The important question to ask, I argue, is how such an intolerant culture was allowed to develop in powerful political and academic institutions, and why the alarmist case was preferred by policymakers, who continue to make use of the binary view of the climate debate.

Although this is the case for most of Lindzen's arguments, he continues to be among the most highly sought contrarians by journalists and policymakers who try to create the perception of significant disagreement amongst climate science experts.

He told environmentalresearchweb that he believes there is a huge gap between what is understood about human - made global warming and its consequences, and what is known by the people who most need to know - the public and policymakers.

The ISPM was prepared by experts who are fully qualified and experienced in their fields, but who are not themselves IPCC chapter authors, nor are they authors of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.

Rick Pilz, who worked for the US Climate Change Science Program, and whose job it was to oversee the writing of reports for policymakers, claimed that he saw the science watered down and censored by a White House aide.

However, in a democracy, policymakers» priorities are generally determined by the voters who put them in office.

Once things have settled, I suppose that because such an investigation can be provoked, scientist will be much more careful not to give way to biased research, and that again could happen to be of great relief to ordinary people who might have their life negatively influenced because of bad science adopted by policymakers as the «truth».

The imbalance is the smoking gun, but its significance is unfortunately poorly understood by skeptics who continue to pass their own confusion to policymakers some of whom, for their own reasons, want to hear the skeptic message instead of consensus science.

The fossil fuel companies don't need to convince denialists of anything, but they get their money's worth by «convincing» non-expert policymakers who oppose any actions on carbon because they are told to.

One of the study's co-authors is none other than Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the hard left activist who advised the Pope on his eco Encyclical last year and who was responsible for inventing the random and bogus 2 ° C target so often cited by policymakers to justify more green taxes and regulations.

We are seeking physicians in every community in America who are willing to become advocates for climate and health in their community by speaking to local policymakers, local press and community groups.

Most of the people Hamilton and others call «geoengineering boosters» are policymakers, security professionals, and scientists who read an article such as this and are silently haunted by the image of Pakistan as a failed state, with an already - strained political system exacerbated by climate change to the point of no return.