Sentences with phrase «conversations about policy»

Where is the forum for conversations about policy?

AASL has compiled resources to help school librarians start conversations about policy revisions in their districts.

Where the groups seem to converge, though, is that their members are gradually becoming involved in conversations about policy, ranging from teacher evaluation to seniority to professional development.

In these times it seems as if people who are comfortable with quantitative skills can hijack and railroad conversations about policy, science, or pretty much anything even when they are horribly, catastrophically wrong.

«Part of that is conversation about policy, where are we going to go with gun safety, background checks, those are real conversations we need to have.»

They haven't spent a lot of time alongside the community, working, volunteering, engaging with folks in communities of color, and low - income communities, so often there is a large detachment and disconnect in the conversations about the policies that are made and the actual realities happening in these communities.

But if higher compensation is to be part of the picture, it can not happen without a serious conversation about policies — government or otherwise — and funding sources that could lead to actual changes in the schools, including how teachers are paid.

Not exact matches

Spreading unexpected goodwill is like taking out an insurance policy to make the conversations about your brand positive.

When a customer tweeted the company asking for clarification about a fee policy, JetBlue not only immediately responded, but also had a local representative study this man's social media photo, then walk through the airport until he could be found for a follow - up conversation.

«I'm hopeful these policies will lead to a new collaborative conversation about Canada's energy infrastructure on its merits and to a significant de-escalation of conflict worldwide about the Alberta oilsands.»

However, «a number of participants reported that about their conversations with business leaders around the country and reported that trade policy has come a concern going forward for that growth.»

So while the new regulations have kickstarted a conversation about women in senior positions, the next challenge will be implementing these policies in a meaningful way.

Just a few years ago, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and policy were limited to a very specific community of academics and enthusiasts, and perhaps a marginal few in the circle of avant garde policy - makers.

A new report from Canada's Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship about AI's implications for policy makers found that, to be successful in implementing AI in government, a diversity in conversation must happen.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

Throughout that time, we have carried on an intellectual conversation about Burkean conservatism, libertarianism, and public policy.

I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an important and nuanced conversation about nutrition, and workplace policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

Christians can legitimately disagree with one another on many issues of political and religious policy, and we do engage in ongoing conversation about these issues.

From overheard conversations in restaurants during our journey (and people seemed to be talking about the election everywhere outside of the DC area) at least some people, middle - class people who go to Ed's Steakhouse or Shakespeare's Coffee Shop, are convinced that Obama's reelection would unleash all the worst implications of the proposed policies of the last four years.

Here in Dayton, I've developed a bit of a reputation for being both a political and theological «liberal,» and have thus found myself in some spirited conversations about everything from Barack Obama's foreign policy to the eternal destiny of Buddhists and Hindus and, well... Barack Obama himself.

The confectionery industry has been an economic bright spot in the overall economy, and continues to do its part to meet community needs and help address the ongoing conversation about food and nutrition policy, wellness and food safety in the United States.

Any conversation about personal responsibility or public policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

The policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those conversations about it in the first place.

The prime minister also downplayed the extent to which his conversations with the Murdochs were about media policy.

The former governor lamented the fact that the governor's race has devolved — literally — into little more than a pushing match, saying: «I think it's too bad that we're not using this moment to have a real conversation about what the policies should be to bring New York State back to what it used to be, the empire state.»

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

After a 10 - minute conversation about the whys and wherefores of council policy, I established that the payments had been stopped because she'd taken in a lodger.

The message was about elections and 2010, sure — but it was also a conversation about what kinds of politics and policies we want to see going forward.

But a repatriation of Ukip voters to the Tories (especially if it turns out that ex-Labour voters actually proved more loyal to Farage) will provoke a very difficult conversation about future directions in policy on Europe and immigration.

He was real glad that we got the health insurance for all of the children in the state, and he was very happy that we had the change in the reimbursement policy for heath - care institutions, a process known as rebasing, and he told me about that and, uh, he didn't say too much about what he was going to be doing and oh, what was that — it was a nice conversation — I also talked to Silda.

At about the time that Labour's mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, tweets that Livingstone's comments were «appalling and inexcusable», Corbyn is engaged in an intense conversation with the train inspector about everything from rail policy to the recent catch of a «record cod» to Tony Blair.

CHELSEA — Conversation was less about policy and more about the past at Monday's debate between Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson, both vying to replace Speaker Christine Quinn on the City Council.

Self - proclaimed GOP «dirty trickster» Roger Stone has been helping Donald Trump prep for tonight's debate by drafting policy memos on specific issues and engaging in general conversations about the art of debating on TV.

«Prohibition of marijuana is a policy that just hasn't worked, no matter how you look at it, and it's time to have an honest conversation about what we should do next,» Krueger said in a statement.

Less on sloganeering, more about having a passionate conversation with the electorate and in terms of policy.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

She said: «We've had conversations about foreign policy and I've spoken to him about the Falkland Islands and I've told him my clear and unequivocal view.

He said policies would be the test of whether the Tories were «serious about a conversation or whether this is just window - dressing and presentation».

While policy - level discussions about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

«There's just so much that we don't know about the deep sea, and we need that basic research before we form policy — but we also urgently need policy before this window of opportunity closes,» Van Dover said, «This is environmental management in a place where we've never conceived of it before, and we need to start the conversation about how we're going to go about it.»

But he cautioned that governments need concrete policy proposals every bit as much as they need probing analyses, and that moving conversations about energy subsidies rhetoric to action is a heavy lift in today's highly charged political arenas.

«To learn about the working environment of the lab that I'd be joining, I had numerous conversations with my prospective mentor, with other researchers who'd had previous interactions with him, and with current and former graduate students and postdocs who were working or had worked in his lab,» AAAS science policy fellow Graber remembers.

It is time for a sustained public conversation about media policy, akin to the ones we have about health care, the economy, defense and the budget.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

«Basically we've both long thought that the cumulative emissions work is policy - relevant... and the fact that negotiators are squealing means we're probably right about that,» Frame said in an email conversation.

Thus far, much of the conversation about postdocs and their roles in the scientific workforce has been enmeshed in wider discussions of biomedical research policy [9,10].

Remember that honesty is the best policy, and posting truthful information about yourself will show the other users you want to engage in a meaningful conversation, meet new people and hopefully find your perfect match.

«Too often, students are cut out of conversations about school policies and culture.

This poll may shine a light on the situation in regards to the Common Core specifically, but my guess is that the same pattern applies to conversations about teacher tenure, school choice, and other education policies.