Sentences with phrase «decisionmaking by»

The Project also has an explicit normative objective: to identify processes of democratic decisionmaking by which society can resolve culturally grounded differences in belief in a manner that is both congenial to persons of diverse cultural outlooks and consistent with sound public policymaking.
Kahneman suggests that «expert» traders generally do not do better than «the market» and that stock trading algorithms work better than decisionmaking by investors influenced by their emotions of fear and greed in random succession.
The spending - on - services approach to cost analysis aims to inform strategic resource decisionmaking by zeroing in on what is provided.
For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites, select only one from the following:
There were only four films nominated for the category DEMOCRACY for promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites (Bitter Harvest, The Post, Tickling Giants, A United Kingdom).
The Project also has an explicit normative objective: to identify processes of democratic decisionmaking by which society can resolve culturally grounded differences in belief in a manner that is both congenial to persons of diverse cultural outlooks and consistent with sound public policymaking.

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So weak results in Q2 were helped by the decisionmaking of company management regarding closing down future revenue streams (projects).
Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.
A teachers» contract adopted last year, which was engineered by Gov. Roy Romer, established «collaborative - decisionmaking» committees at each of the city's 110 schools and gave them broad authority over instructional and curriculum issues, faculty selection, and other matters.
Studies by Alfred Chandler and Oliver Williamson have demonstrated that such organizations must decentralize decisionmaking, thereby granting autonomy with accountability to sub-units, in order to function effectively.
5) Procedural Due Process is the principle that students with disabilities and their parents have the right to be informed of changes to their educational plan, to participate in the decisionmaking process surrounding the design and updating of those plans, and to protest any decisions that are adverse to their right to a free, appropriate public education by going to an administrative hearing and then to appeal to a court any adverse judgment.
Local control is valuable, said the Court, because it facilitates «the greatest participation by those most directly concerned» with school decisionmaking.
I was inspired by Lesaux's clear and straightforward thinking about how schools can better use literacy data to drive decisionmaking, as well as how connected she continues to be to practice in schools and districts today.
Most schools need products that help with the implementation of standards, that link instruction to assessments, that are grounded in solid and reliable data that enable better decisionmaking, that work seamlessly with other programs to create blended and personalized learning environments, and that are backed by a reputable company that provides high - quality, ongoing service and support.
Today, the R - word is not heard very often, but we believe two crucial aspects of restructuring — the tasks teachers do and the way they use time — are on the horizon if teachers proactively shape the data - based decisionmaking prompted by the state and federal push...
Failing to adequately educate our nation's youth by reducing the cost per class is not a blueprint for informed local resource decisionmaking.
There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.
We believe the most promising approach is to move decisionmaking closer to the consumers of K — 12 public education by unleashing pent - up demand and empowering parents to choose schools for their children.
The OneApp has reduced opportunities for schools to engage in these behaviors by transferring decisionmaking authority in admissions from schools to the centralized process.
The listening sessions are a critical part of Meloche's strategy to get the best out of his already high - flying suburban district by elevating the voices of its students in decisionmaking.
The work of High Scope Research Foundation in it's longitudinal study of preschool children and adult decisionmaking as well as the longitudinal work of the ABCDerian and Chicago Parent Child Centers which confirms High Scope's findings, are not well known by educational decision makers despite the high quality of the research and the repercussions of itheir findings.
Even though the community had by then gotten to know me and I found a small reform - minded following, personal politics on the board almost always trumped rational or research - based decisionmaking.
But even if the measures were perfect, the potential for consumer information to change student decisionmaking may still be constrained by the fact that many students only consider institutions near where they live, due to a desire or need to remain close home (e.g., due to work or family obligations).
CIERA Report # 3 - 025 «The Effect of Groups and Individuals on National Decisionmaking: Influence and Domination in the Reading Policymaking Environment» by Julie E. McDaniel, and Cecil Miskel
«Maybe the NEA and AFT having less of it will lead to a wealth of something else: good decisionmaking — particularly on education — by members of the party whose key constituency is supposed to be «the little guy.»»
The traditional district bureaucracies, often influenced by NEA and AFT locals through campaign donations, that do everything possible to oppose Parent Trigger measures and other tools that give black families lead decisionmaking roles in the schools that serve their children.
At the same time, data - informed decisionmaking is only partly about data, according to Data - Informed Leadership in Education, a report by the University of Washington's Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy.
DOT also remains committed to bringing government decisionmaking closer to communities and people affected by these decisions, and ensuring opportunities for greater public participation in providing input into these decisions relating to human health and the environment.
Performance management will transform the Federal - aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal - aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance - based planning and programming.
But maintaining lists of long and short ideas ranked by likely risk - adjusted returns will yield better decisionmaking, if one will do it.
A new survey analysis conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of MetLife explores consumers» attitudes and decisionmaking with regard to lump sums and income annuity payments.
The firm expects to target mainly 403 (b) church plans, but a recent nod of approval by the Department of Labor for greater use of environmental and social factors in qualified retirement plan investment decisionmaking could change that moving forward.
Not to deny by any means the importace of thinking about the US vs. UK differences — in public opinion & in how public opinion bears on political decisionmaking — but we did use our framework to test how cultural cognition, measured w / our scales, affects English (yes, English; not entire UK) public engagement with informaton on climate change.
When they turn their attention to population, such authors are not concerned primarily by the fact that rapid population growth may slow economic progress in the third world, or that it may be inimicable to the interests of women, or even that it may give rise to environmental costs that are external to households» decisionmaking or may impede virtuous institutional responses to scarcity.
The way to read this letter is that it is the fossil fuel industry that is trying to short - circuit the decisionmaking process by taking the science out of it, and basically getting Congress to oppose any carbon - related policies.
That model protected the integrity of the decisionmaking process and protected members who lost a base but couldn't easily be blamed for it by voters.
Trump's decisionmaking has been suspect, leading to billions of dollars of loss for his investors over the years and fraud cases by thousands of people victimized by him.
There were three interwoven strands to the problem: identifying which incidents of non-fatal self - harm by prisoners might call for independent investigation; working out the best procedure for decisionmaking about setting up an independent investigation; and determining the form of any independent investigation which was necessary.
Otherwise, the judge and jury's decisionmaking process may well be overshadowed by the ill feeling they have in the pit of their stomach when considering the words and messages of an offensively overbearing lawyer.
Despite some people's concerns about what they perceive as increasingly frequent recusals by the Justices, on a percentage basis, the effect such recusals have had on the Court's decisionmaking has been essentially consistent for the last 35 - plus years.
ENG Conference Programme ENG Public Participation in Decisionmaking and the UNFCC: Presentation by Prof. Jonas Ebbesson
The latest book by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner takes a skeptical look at judicial decisionmaking, criticizing judges who stray from the text in interpreting statutes and constitutional provisions.
The terms «custody» and «visitation» have been replaced with the terms «allocation of parenting responsibilities» or «decisionmaking» (how major upbringing decisions are made by the parents) and «parenting time» or «timesharing» (how time with the child is shared between the parents).
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