Sentences with word «decisionmaker»

Meanwhile the push for families as real decisionmakers in education can be seen in New York City, where Mona Davids and the New York City Parents Union has pushed for families to have real power in education.

To that end, RFF continues to serve as an active resource for decisionmakers who are interested in these issues.

The tax cap can easily be lifted by a vote of local decisionmakers... and it has in a good number of municipalities.

Scientists are often hesitant to share their uncertainty with decisionmakers who need to know it.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th January 2018 For operational sustainability in the mining industry, mining decisionmakers need to take a proactive approach to protect and promote worker health, supporting productivity and to reduce legal liabilities associated with occupational disease.

The stockpiles of data on student achievement accumulating within state agencies and districts offer a new opportunity to engage with decisionmakers.

«These organizations provide critical information to communities and decisionmakers on everything from infrastructure risks as sea levels rise to health effects from rising temperatures,» said Rachel Licker of the Union of Concerned ScientistscAnd I think that kind of information is appreciated on both sides of the aisle.»

Some of the nation's most innovative teacher - quality programs could be in jeopardy as decisionmakers for the Cincinnati public schools scramble to identify $ 20 million to cut from next year's budget.

«Local and state decisionmakers likely do not have the resources necessary to fully understand the uncertainties they face and will need to rely on the research capacity of the federal government to supplement their knowledge,» the study says.

This phase of the process was lengthy, lasting a year and included pitch meetings to all of the key decisionmakers at National Geographic.

After a great deal of red tape, frustration, bureaucratic snafus, and downright thoughtless actions by decisionmakers down south of the border, my little «Princesa» joined the family in Virginia in late October (about five months after we had hoped and planned).

The interim report emphasizes what I call «getting science to the street,» that is, providing scientific information to local and regional decisionmakers in a form that is both understandable and relevant to their work.

«But other data on canopy biodiversity and animal habitats, such as our work on Bornean orangutans, will also help inform decisionmakers.»

Simply disseminating inspection ratings and reports may therefore better inform consumers and other decisionmakers in the education sector.

«HGSE is a place that produces men and women of note who see themselves as key decisionmakers or people who will make an impact in education.»

In a 2016 survey on research use by state and district decisionmakers by the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, more than half reported that they «never» or «rarely» used the federally funded What Works Clearinghouse, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).

Because the outfit, like so many Beltway - oriented reformers, is clinging to a limited notion of the role families should play in education decision - making at a time when parents are demanding to be lead decisionmakers in how schools and operators serve their children.

For the past several decades, RFF experts have helped decisionmakers understand climate policy challenges and assess the costs and benefits of possible solutions, such as a clean energy standard, the Clean Air Act, and various state - level programs, among others.

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Economists working for corporations help managers and decisionmakers understand how the economy will affect their business.

Professor Chris Dede: Educational decisionmakers are facing the complex challenge of making long - term investments in technology infrastructure at a time when devices, applications, and media are all rapidly evolving.

Also on display was a verbal game of hot potato in which neither miners nor developers wanted to be seen as being the primary decisionmakers for the network.

The study, sponsored by Verizon and Cisco, surveyed over 3,662 decisionmakers from organizations over the world, finding that 44 % of organization used collaborative tools.

Decisionmakers also want to know answers to questions such as: Is the approach hard or easy to use?

AN event designed to provide decisionmakers with a network of new leads and contacts showcasing WA products and services will take place at the Perth Entertainment Centre from 21 to 23 September.

Another U.S. discussant suggested, however, that Chinese decisionmakers may be more influenced by the 80 — 90 percent among the netizens than the 36 percent among the general public.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in many books by journalists and military participants but very few by political decisionmakers.

Like seemingly everybody else these days, plenty of Hill offices have taken to Facebook and Twitter, creating new channels to reach those ever - in - demand decisionmakers.

«The speaker was the ultimate decisionmaker,» Franco said, referring to Silver but refusing to say either his first or last name.

To impress decisionmakers, cities came up with ambitious yet impractical plans that later failed to drive up clean car use.

Bob Richmond, president of the International Society for Reef Studies and a senior investigator at Kewalo Marine Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, said the declaration was meant to be «proactive, not reactive,» targeted at Australian decisionmakers «to provide policy guidance from the science community.»

It's also one of the most underestimated phenomena, especially in disciplines that view humans as rational decisionmakers.

The center's web site contains resources on how to turn out individuals for meetings, plan effective community forums, choose a winning issue, educate decisionmakers, engage in lobbying to elicit a commitment from a legislator, and so forth.

The survey of school technology decisionmakers — such as superintendents, assistant superintendents, and instructional technology directors — was conducted by Grunwald Associates, a San Francisco - based research firm, in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking, a professional group representing...

Presumably, teachers and other decisionmakers expected these students, unlike promoted students, to benefit from an additional year as 3rd graders.

We still believe in merit over inherited position, but we mistrust technocrats and institutional decisionmakers who attempt to control individual lives.

Following the tradition of James Q. Wilson, we need to understand the system of rewards and constraints within which local decisionmakers work.

The teacher will then become frustrated and will let the principal know, and so on, up to the ed - tech decisionmakers.

Any attempt at zero - based budgeting would require decisionmakers to understand and work within the constraints imposed by these funding streams, each of which is typically earmarked for a specific group of students or a particular school program.

First, the promoters» exhilaration splashes over decisionmakers as they purchase and deploy equipment in schools and classrooms.

And decisionmakers lose valuable information about where there may be bright spots to learn from and where improvement or intervention is needed.

But all we end up with as an answer is a few pages on approaches that might do better: one, parent groups compelling decisionmakers to ease up on test - based accountability for teachers and students; and two, teachers «working collectively... to improve their content knowledge and teaching skills.»

This is particularly problematic because, as economics Nobel Prize - winner Robert Lucas has suggested, growth and advancement come not merely from new inventions or unearthing new resources, but from entrepreneurial decisionmakers» configuring personnel, practices, operations, and resources in new and more effective ways.

However, more research needs to be done to inform decisionmakers about the effects of mobile learning on student achievement.

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Without these linkages across states and systems, critical decisionmakers in students» lives do not have the information they need to best support those students.