Sentences with phrase «effective reform wrought»

Marc also cites David Kirp's account of Union City, New Jersey, as an example of effective reform wrought by the system itself.

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Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

They work with corporations to increase the availability of animal product alternatives and have developed a «restaurant report card» to score the top 100 chain restaurants according to their plant - based options.22 In general, we think that corporate outreach is a relatively effective animal advocacy intervention, though we are less certain of the effects of promoting plant - based options in restaurants than we are of the effects of working with corporations to implement welfare reforms.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

We also call on the Victorian government to work with stakeholders across the food system to understand the need for regulatory reform and explore options for the most suitable and effective way this can be achieved.

The Empire Center is dedicated to making New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

Our mission: Make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.

Our mission is to make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free - market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

«Throughout he's been an effective partner in government, working with me and my colleagues in the Legislature to enact groundbreaking reforms to consolidate local government that will mean real property tax relief for New York families.»

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee looks forward to the government's support as it pursues its work on making the legislature as effective as possible.

«As an IDC member, David has been an effective champion for us, working with Governor Cuomo to reform state government, expand civil rights and invest in public education and environmental protection.

«We believe that it is more effective to work with other countries to improve and reform their systems, rather than criticise from the sidelines.»

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

We are working with our partners to promote legislative reforms to guarantee that all patients have access to affordable, effective pain medication to relieve the tragedy of needless suffering caused by undertreated cancer pain.»

In partnership with CLG, the West Clermont team came to recognize that an effective and sustainable reform plan could come about only if it was initiated by those doing the school's work at the ground level, namely, teachers and administrative staff.

«The whole controversy about the Common Core and the assessments risks becoming an enormous distraction from the much more difficult work, the central education reform work of devising effective strategies for educating children to higher levels,» says Reville.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

In Baltimore, under schools CEO Andrés Alonso, reform's guiding principles include «Closing schools that don't work for our kids,» «Creating new options that have strong chances of success,» and «Expanding some programs that are already proving effective.»

Moreover, because it was a top - down approach - a demand for effective management that business leaders, governors, and the public could readily understand - it came across as a natural extension of mainstream reform efforts to make the existing system work better.

Our foundation is working with a number of districts, including Hillsborough (Florida), Memphis, and Pittsburgh, to advance comprehensive teacher reforms, and we are engaged with nearly 3,000 teachers in six school districts on a project called «Measures of Effective Teaching.»

Well - designed preparation programs help ensure that reform efforts are succesful by equipping teacher leaders with the necessary knowledge and skills to be effective in their work to improve instruction.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Martha «Marty» Hougen, Ph.D., works with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center (CEEDAR Center) at the University of Florida to improve the achievement of students with disabilities.

MCAN works toward achieving this goal by advocating for policy reforms that lower the barriers to college for students, sponsoring a number of statewide initiatives focused on increasing college access, delivering professional development to train college access professionals to be highly qualified and effective college advisers, and strengthening like - minded and mission - aligned statewide college access and success initiatives.

Emphasizing the need for additional effective education entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charter schools.

During this week's meeting, the group began outlining the scope of its work, which is supported by a grant from the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center.

Sherry's influence spans the nation as she works collaboratively with the National Forum To Accelerate Middle - Grades reform as forum member and Michigan Project Director on their Investing in Innovation Grant (2013) and Supporting Effective Educator Grant (2015), awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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HOPE Foundation News Effective Leadership: National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform Is Partnering with the HOPE Foundation by Deborah Kasak The National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform is delighted to establish a relationship with The HOPE Foundation, and over the upcoming months we will collaborate to spread information about what is working in middle grades schools (grades 5 - 8) across this country.

Specifically, our work supports the idea that effective PD is situated within communities of practice that serve to distribute the cognitive load for understanding and implementing reform ideas (Garet, Proter, Desimone, Birman, & Yoon, 2001).

She works with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center to coordinate intensive technical assistance activities that promote aligned professional learning systems across the teacher and leader career continuum in various states.

The School Leadership District Cohort is a professional learning community of four selected school districts from across the U.S. that will work hand - in - hand with the Bush Institute's Education Reform team to improve how they find, support, and keep effective principals.

We often hear that effective school reform in reading — reform that significantly raises student achievement — takes dedication, hard work, and time.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Further, Marzano's work points emphatically to the importance of quality leadership, which «could be considered the single most important aspect of effective school reform... [I] t influences every aspect of the model» (p. 172).

Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a) meeting for 1 hour a week in study groups; (b) meeting in cross-grade groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study groups; (d) considering research - based «best practices» in study groups; (e) completing action plans in study groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h) meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making effective use of the internal leadership team.

He has ensured that there is a comprehensive understanding of a cohesive education reform agenda across the Senior Officers he leads and continues to champion the work of highly effective school leaders, systems and a «level playing field» for the students served in public education.

Hayes works with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center to coordinate intensive technical assistance activities that promote aligned teacher and leader preparation and development policies in the states of Colorado, Florida, and Illinois.

Low class size is one demonstrated component of effective reform, but so too is the necessity of having an experienced teacher to work with the class.

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food and clothing industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.213 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture — if any — so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.214, 215, 216

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.192 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture, if any, so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.193, 194, 195

Most of the consultants working today seem to have a good grasp of shelter history and are very competent to lead effective reform efforts.

Shareholder action can be an effective tool to make small reforms at a company — such as pressuring Apple to institute better labour practices at the factories it works with in China — but it won't achieve the fundamental changes to the business model of the fossil fuel industry needed: keeping their coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.

Since launching EDF's China Program in 1995, he has worked with China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to develop effective and efficient pollution control programs for both conventional and greenhouse gases.

To bring about the most effective reforms possible, the Council works in collaborative partnership with Chicago Appleseed, a nonpartisan, independent research and advocacy organization building trustworthy and unique connections between community advocates and the justice system — improving lives by improving courts.

This spurs effective action on many levels — working on law reform to make systemic change; raising public awareness through social media campaigns and street rallies; engaging in participatory research to provide a valuable and often overlooked perspective.

While there are many dedicated people trying hard to make it work and there have been many reform efforts, the system continues to lack coherent leadership, institutional structures that can design and implement change, and appropriate coordination to ensure consistent and cost effective reform.

Andrew Holroyd, society president, says: «I'm committed to working hard to continue the reform of the Law Society to deliver more effective, value for money support to solicitors and on the representative side we are now much leaner than a year ago.