Sentences with phrase «education policies like»

Similarly, what Louis C.K. said about current education policies like standardized testing and the Common Core occurred against a backdrop of popular dissent.

It's now obvious that advertising claims behind current education policies like the Common Core were never based on strong objective evidence.

E4E - New York Executive director Jonathan Schleifer says solutions - oriented discussions are necessary to successfully implement education policies like Common...

Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are being excluded by education policies like the times - tables test, experts have warned.

«It's time they be held accountable for their enrollment, discipline and special education policies like every public school is.»

But the events of last winter and spring illustrate the roller - coaster ride that awaits any school district that tries to tamper with a core education policy like student retention.

I had a moment of reflection and decided to go back to school to develop my skills and leadership, to pursue a graduate studies program that I felt would launch me into a new career, to catapult me into education policy like a slingshot.

Not exact matches

«Child migration will affect certain states and localities differently, based on where costs such as education are incurred but also based on gains in terms of spending for things like shelter and transportation,» said Michelle Mittelstadt of the Migration Policy Institute.

And I particularly like his policy on education, which I'm hardest on.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Younger cabinet ministers, like Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk, Education Minister Jeff Johnson and Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths, constantly talk off the cuff and appear to sometimes be making government policy on the fly.

Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

because the religious lobbyists garner ridiculous influence over public policy, especially education, and we're a little concerned that our kids are going to be taught silly crap like the planet is 6000 years old.

The law The argument is often advanced, «Of course, we would like to keep to what the Church teaches, but, alas, in England and Wales, the law requires us to teach a modern sex education policy.»

A useful parallel can be drawn between policies that encourage education and the work of groups like Habitat for Humanity, where the «sweat equity» of family members, combined with the personal and financial involvement of others, provides better housing for many.

There have also been advances in policies as well as education efforts like the Save the Food campaign to raise awareness of food loss and waste.

And that actually involve things like health care, education, policing policy, etc..

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

In that regard I differ from food policy experts like Marion Nestle who, writing last week in Food Politics, expressed some overall discomfort with the FNV campaign, noting that «Marketing is not education.

International experts from UN Women and NGOs like Promundo are doing important work to change harmful norms of gender and masculinity through parental leave and fathers» quotas policies and education programs for adolescent boys, respectively.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

We believe that childbirth education is like an insurance policy for having a good birth — it helps you become familiar with what to expect, helps you understand your options and most importantly, increases your confidence.

I think the discussion of the 2 republicanisms, and 2 communitarianisms can help social democrats come up with policies to improve public services like education, healthcare, and identify new labour laws worth implementing.

To avoid a similar fiasco, the SPD has insisted this time on a number of social policies in the 2013 coalition treaty, such as the introduction of a minimum wage, more flexibility in the pension system, an increase in old - age pensions and benefits for the chronically ill as well as an increase in social expenditure on matters like education, health and family benefits.

Matthew Elliott Chairman, TaxPayers» Alliance Centralising education Neil O'Brien's uninformed dismissal of critics of government education policy, like myself, suggests that the Tory part of the coalition has no awareness of how divisive and unpopular its reforms have become (TP, February).

But state lawmakers there, like in the Republican - controlled Senate, will likely consider measures designed to alter education policies approved in the 2015 - 16 state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Wednesday.

Instead of pursuing bold policies on education or law and order, the Tories are refusing to move anywhere like enough away from the approach which denied them victory in 2010.

«He's pushing for tax policies, education policies, I would argue jobs and wage policies that hurt regular people and help billionaires like him,» Kink said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

«On mayoral control of schools,» Savino continued, «I think we should look at changes to make it better, like doing away with the Panel for Education Policy, which is essentially a staff meeting for the mayor's office.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg had warned of great chaos if the law was not renewed, his allies on the Board of Education kept his policies in place and the law was eventually renewed, with tweaks like giving the Independent Budget Office more oversight over spending.

Cuomo's budget includes unrelated topics like ethics reform, as well as numerous education policy changes that he's linked to school aid increases.

Gove, the Shadow Education Secretary, like Osborne himself, is thought to be a «neo-con» in foreign policy - whilst both men are fully signed - up Cameroon modernisers in every other respect.

We're looking for writers here at ShakingNews to cover and explain New York politics, especially around topics like healthcare, housing and real estate, transportation, education and tech policy.

Michael Gove has been described as an education tourist, spending his time shopping around southeast Asian and Scandinavian countries looking for policies he can claim will raise standards and which fit with his own dogmatic perception of what schools should look like.

The annual gathering of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators this weekend is often dominated with talk about policy in the state budget, like education spending or criminal justice reform.

He seemed to almost dare legislators who are balking over education and health care cuts and key policy issues like prison closures and the med - mal cap to challenge him to a game of budget chicken.

In the Daily Telegraph, Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy put the boot into Justine Greening, claiming that the former education secretary «put the brakes on policies that work, like free schools, and devised bureaucratic initiatives of little value».

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

He speaks up for things, like the Hudson River ARC tunnel, and against things, like lax Department of Education policies on bedbugs.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he disagrees with Cuomo's attempts to link unrelated policy items, like education issues and an ethics reform package to the state budget.

King, the acting secretary of education, has a long history of supporting corporate - friendly education reforms, and has pushed for unpopular policies like more standardized testing and Common Core, which critics say are ineffective.

Community Education Councils have the power to determine and redraw zoning lines, but their roles in pushing policy initiatives, like the one on new construction, is only advisory.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

Governor Cuomo has repeatedly threatened to hold up the state budget over ethics reform and other issues, like education policy.

«In a very short time he has to absorb whole sets of very complex policy areas - complicated fields like health, housing and education which he has not had much to do with in recent years.»

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

The commissioner has also largely avoided the drama that often accompanies education policy in New York, instead sticking to SED's script on controversial topics, like Common Core and teacher evaluations.

«For a city like New York City, the biggest fear is the loss of federal funds,» said Aaron Pallas, the chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University.