Sentences with phrase «education policy job»

The silence is especially deafening from Robinson and Evers, both of whom lead Trump's education policy transition panel and are rumored to be under consideration to take the nation's top education policy job.

Not exact matches

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

Lacking a formal education in economics and having graduated with law degree from Yale University, Powell had to learn on the job when it came to monetary theory and interest - rate policy.

John Doerr lecture at UC Berkeley in a Q&A session where he discussed topics such as startups, healthcare, education, policy & politics, venture capital, the sharing economy, and jobs in emerging markets.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

Social Darwinism dominates our policy - making regarding education, jobs, geographical residential allotments, provisions for recreation, health services, and the uses of human beings to carry on wars.

The poll takers and those running the focus groups asked about various policies about equal pay, education, jobs, and so forth, which is natural.

Their informative chapters on social insurance, tax policy, education, efforts to improve jobs and wages for less - skilled workers, and in - kind and cash assistance make clear why current policies are often regressive.

For example, he recommends policies that allow parents to stay home after the birth of a child without sacrificing their job, and subsidies and tax credits for early childhood care and education.

Education, with a focus on outward perspectives which don't forsake Arab values, is consistently a prominent policy priority in the Gulf states» job - creation strategies.

Maloney said, «I'm running because there is an urgent need to take back our Congress from extremists who reject smart investments in health care, education and infrastructure; who reject sensible tax policies that create jobs and balance budgets; and who would end Medicare as we know it.»

«Your commitment to stop galamsey, One District, One Factory policy, tour of the sub-region, planting for food and jobs and free Senior High education are exciting.

And as he prepares for the first big policy speech of his second term, voters want to see him focus on education and jobs.

«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.

«The government needs to urgently rethink these policies and provide the support young people need to get into education, training and jobs.

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle says Democrats had some concerns over a purposed commission to design new teacher evaluations, and instead now want the Board of Regents, which is in charge of education policy, to do the job.

«The job of chief inspector is not one of de facto cheerleader for whatever is government policy of the day,» said education spokeswoman Sarah Teather.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

«The State Education Department has clear policies and procedures for vetting potential nurses and monitoring and investigating those on the job, but my auditors found the department is not always meeting its own goals, which is potentially putting patients» health and safety at risk,» DiNapoli said.

«From lack of access to higher education and job opportunities, to managing trauma from these experiences in violent environments, and in many cases, recidivism, these policies have served to punish youth for life.

My platform is about economic human rights — education, jobs, health care — I didn't think I had to say water,» he said, sliding into a critique of Cuomo's policies about cities.

In his address to conference, after another hard - hitting attack on Michael Gove and Coalition education policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firseducation policy (it was, after all, the Education session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs firsEducation session), Ed Balls set out his economic alternative to their cuts agenda — «put growth and jobs first».

Reclaim New York's website lists four general policy areas on which it focuses: affordability, education, jobs and economy, and government reform.

Fewer than half of New Yorkers think Cuomo is doing a good job setting policy on education.

ITDP today unveiled a new policy guide at the Urban Forum to evaluate real estate developments that integrate sustainable transport and land - use planning to connect people conveniently and safely to jobs, education, shopping and other opportunities.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

Some of the doctorates employed in these areas continue to do research, including those who start their own companies, but many more are finding that their scientific training has opened doors to exciting new job opportunities in regulatory affairs, informatics, technology transfer, science journalism, science policy, and education, among many others.

Hearing her side of the story, told a great deal through conversations with her multiple - job - working - yet - still - struggling mother, put a human face on broader debates on education, social policy, and culture.

Jill Carlson International Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.M.»

Chike Aguh Education, Policy, and Management Current cities: Laurel, Maryland / Washington, D.C. Current job: Director, Education Advisory Board Career highlight: Visiting community colleges in over half the states in the union to think about how technology can help solve the college completion challenge

While a student at the Ed School, she served as a student representative during the last Harvard president search and as an editor on the Harvard Educational Review, not to mention the seven part - time jobs, including her current ones: as a research assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terry Long.

John T. Benson did not lose his job as state schools chief in the recent shake - up of Wisconsin's education - policy structure, but he may soon be looking for new office space.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

His proposals do, in fact, include some education and job - training initiatives, as well as macro-economic policies, several of them noted in the speech itself.

Educators and the education policy community will be familiar with his work on topics including homework, extra-curricular activities, remediation in higher education, and the impact of part - time jobs on academic achievement.

Addressing a Leading Educators conference, Arne Duncan says we need to give teachers more opportunities to influence education policy without having to leave their teaching jobs.

Carol Yu Education Policy and Management Current City: New York / Boston Current job: Global academic director, Bridge International Academies Career highlight: Seeing our first cohort of graduates in Kenya excel on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam (KCPE), a high - stakes national exit examination for primary students.

Kopp says it was TFA's vision from the start to get its alumni into jobs where they could influence — no, direct — education policy.

«If I were U.S. Secretary of Education,» Nancy Flanagan told Education World, «job number one would be to surround myself with the best advisors possible — outstanding classroom teachers — and then strive to put their expertise to good use in the policy arena.

It is about getting every aspect of government policy — education, health, housing and communities — working together to support people into sustainable jobs.

«The new program was a culmination of public policy, business management, and education curriculum, which was the perfect job for me based on my training,» she explains.

And when it comes to education policy, which does a particularly good job of stirring people's passions, opportunities for advancing meaningful policy reform would appear entirely fleeting.

Still, Strauss does an absolutely superb job of introducing the co-chair of the Broader Bolder coalition as «Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Duke University who has spent years researching school accountability, education finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.»

I am an education policy researcher who's taken a few detours into policy jobs — once in the Office of Data and Accountability of DC Public Schools, and once as the Deputy of Educator Preparation for the State of Delaware under its Race - to - the - Top efforts.

For instance, unions have steadfastly defended policies that undermine education reform, such as: No junior teacher, however competent and in demand, should ever be paid more than someone who has been on the job longer.

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.

These cities are» jockeying to woo an ever - shrinking pool of qualified candidates for a demanding job that requires one part managerial skills, one part political savvy and one part education - policy acumen for a tenure that, on average, lasts barely more than three years,» Camera writes.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

As he explained when addressing International Education Policy (IEP) students last week, Wood took the comment as a challenge and promptly left his job as a senior executive associate for Microsoft, promising to return to Nepal with books.