Sentences with phrase «decisionmakers in»

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.
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.
Without these linkages across states and systems, critical decisionmakers in students» lives do not have the information they need to best support those students.
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.
If it makes sense for families to be lead decisionmakers in education, it also makes sense to measure states and even districts by how they empower those parents to transform education within their own communities, starting with schools in their backyards.
I hope that my findings provide state policymakers with an understanding of how private interests can contribute to our system of higher education, and decisionmakers in India with a sense of how their approach to community college might benefit from a stronger state role.»
Simply disseminating inspection ratings and reports may therefore better inform consumers and other decisionmakers in the education sector.
This study provided timely evidence to decisionmakers in Massachusetts seeking to choose an examination system.
Instead of a jury of your peers or an impartial judge, the decisionmaker in arbitration proceedings is often an individual hired by the company.
(b) In such a proceeding, you may release the information to the decisionmaker in the proceeding (e.g., the court in a lawsuit).

Not exact matches

In its decision, the 9th Circuit cited a previous case establishing that «circumstantial evidence of intent, including... statements by decisionmakers, may be considered in evaluating whether a governmental action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.&raquIn its decision, the 9th Circuit cited a previous case establishing that «circumstantial evidence of intent, including... statements by decisionmakers, may be considered in evaluating whether a governmental action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.&raquin evaluating whether a governmental action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.»
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 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.
At this dinner, we will be able to hobnob with politicians, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders in the Dutch science and technology scene.
... Among all these decisionmakers, students and workers are the most disadvantaged, for they typically command insufficient resources to uncover any but the most rudimentary information about trends in potentially interesting fields.
It's also one of the most underestimated phenomena, especially in disciplines that view humans as rational decisionmakers.
What needs to be pointed out is that these same local decisionmakers have always had the authority to put such programs in place, but have simply refused to do so out of a need to protect their power base.
Some have argued that not only are its objectives too lofty and ambitious, but in its haste to effect change immediately, the bill also arbitrarily makes some decisions that should be left to state and local 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.
As a part of this project, he encourages states to help incentivize participation in these networks through linking funds, and he believes change will come as local research shifts the opinion of local decisionmakers.
«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.»
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.
The No Child Left Behind Act does indeed have the potential to change education in America by ushering in meaningful accountability, along with greater opportunity and choices for parents and broader flexibility for state and local decisionmakers.
At a minimum, it would require advocates of experimentation to be explicit about the real limits of their preferred technique, to engage their critics in open dialogue about the critics» objections to randomization, and to assert that experiments will be improved by paying greater attention to program theory, implementation specifics, quantitative and qualitative data collection, causal contingency, and the management needs of school personnel as well as of central decisionmakers.
We still believe in merit over inherited position, but we mistrust technocrats and institutional decisionmakers who attempt to control individual lives.
The behavior of customers who have choices provides important feedback to decisionmakers, helping them invest more money and effort in what works and waste fewer resources on what fails.
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 (RELsIn 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 (RELsin 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).
Releasing the study last week, the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals urged school decisionmakers to «be more visionary» in planning for the future.
Make time for this process, ensuring that decisionmakers are available to explain purchasing decisions, staff are included in professional development to understand program nuances, and families receive any necessary training or information to support their children.
First, the promoters» exhilaration splashes over decisionmakers as they purchase and deploy equipment in schools and classrooms.
Board members gave themselves failing or barely passing grades in such core areas of governance as their influence on other decisionmakers, their ability to provide leadership and policy oversight, their involvement of parents and other community members, planning and...
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.
Education Week is uniquely positioned to be your turn - key market research solution as we deliver the premier decisionmaker database in the K - 12 market.
Thus, in most states, decisionmakers who wish to incorporate into their adoption decisions evidence on how textbooks affect student achievement are simply out of luck.
We also believe that district decisionmakers could play a more active role in making curriculum materials information available for research.
In public education, by contrast, local decisionmakers have few or no incentives to make good use of data in assessing their employees because public schools face no meaningful competitioIn public education, by contrast, local decisionmakers have few or no incentives to make good use of data in assessing their employees because public schools face no meaningful competitioin assessing their employees because public schools face no meaningful competition.
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).
If a designee is acting as the decisionmaker, all references in this subpart to the Director refer to the designee.
This strategy of DOT Sustains is to use the environmental review process to inform decisionmakers, resulting in better environmental outcomes throughout our programs.
Of course, then again, your average File 770 commenter does believe in a system in which all the decisionmakers have to know what they're doing, otherwise the entire things falls apart, so perhaps I should be more forgiving.
From individuals with cats in their backyards all the way up to government decisionmakers, Alley Cat Allies is changing the world for cats.
Once a schedule for phasing in the carbon tax and reducing the tax on income is in place, the new prices can be used by all economic decisionmakers to make more intelligent decisions.
«In their role as decision support tools, scenarios have to compete with other ways in which decisionmakers may reason about the futurIn their role as decision support tools, scenarios have to compete with other ways in which decisionmakers may reason about the futurin which decisionmakers may reason about the future.
She is deeply focused on engaging with experts and decisionmakers on renewable energy and energy efficiency in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and coal power.
They are not, for the most part, focused on helping «decisionmakers» and «stakeholders» (whomever that might be — in the draft Strategic Plan they're left even more poorly defined by the USGCRP than «global change») solve problems.
The 1st Circuit found possible evidence of unlawful discrimination in comments by those who made the promotion decision — particularly Chadwick's supervisor, Nanci Miller, the primary decisionmaker.
«Much as in the civil litigation system it mimics, in an inter partes review the petitioner is master of its complaint and normally entitled to judgment on all of the claims it raises, not just those the decisionmaker might wish to address.»
Rather, in addition to wasting time and money on an argument that goes nowhere, you can also lose precious credibility with your decisionmaker.
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.
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