Sentences with phrase «evidence suggests these reforms»

While both studies are ongoing, preliminary evidence suggests these reforms are having the positive effects that early work had hypothesized.

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There is some evidence to suggest that Trump administration reforms have had a tangible impact on the H - 1B program.

That members of a reformed Lords would be unable to stand for re-election effectively removes that effect from the equation, and there is no evidence to suggest that Lords elected under an open preferential system would be any more likely to follow the party leadership than those elected under STV.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

Giving evidence to the joint committee on the draft House of Lords reform bill, Dr Rowan Williams suggested a particular clause be dropped so that women bishops would not have to wait «until 2025 or something» before they were eligible for a seat in the upper house.

But indicative evidence has suggested that, in some cases, reforms may be failing to meet their aims.

Their evidence is likely to be critical as the chancellor has promised to listen to those suggesting ways to adjust the tax credits reforms he set out in the summer, aimed at trimming # 4.4 bn from the welfare bill.

This evidence suggests that while bureaucratic change may often be slow, it may be a mistake to underestimate the capacity of these bureaucratic institutions to reform, adapt, and adjust in light of changing environments.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Says Howell, «The evidence suggests that by strategically deploying funds to cash - strapped states and massively increasing the public profile of a controversial set of education policies, the president managed to stimulate reforms that had stalled in state legislatures.»

Instead, Hobby suggested the government should base its reforms on «evidence rather than anecdote».

Their initial data analysis suggested significant uniformity in language arts practice among the nine classrooms and offered striking evidence that the district's proposals for language arts reform were finding their way into practice.

«The School Reform Landscape: Fraud, Myth and Lies exposes and provides an action - packed story documenting research - based evidence that counters current policy driven propaganda suggesting that standardization and centralization should provide a road map for education in the 21st century.

Overall, the evidence from TIMSS and PISA suggests a worsening of Quebec's students performance post reform in mathematics and at best a stand still in science and French.

To be clear, there is preliminary evidence suggesting that contemporary evaluation reforms may in at least some cases have the desired effects.

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education, said: «There is evidence to suggest becoming an academy can mean better results for pupils, but only among schools that were LEA - maintained prior to conversion.

«This finding about the importance of tutoring is in line with other recent evidence pointing to dramatic gains from intensive tutoring on its own, suggesting a good place to start for effective and practical reform at traditional public schools,» wrote the authors, Julia Chabrier of J - Pal North America, Sarah Cohodes of Teachers College Columbia University, and Philip Oreopoulos of the economics department at the University of Toronto.

It is stuck in a framework that says that reform and leadership means doing things, like firing a bunch of people (Rhee) or «turning around» schools (Education Secretary Arne Duncan) despite the fact that there's no research to suggest that these would have worked, and there's now evidence to show that they haven't.

Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»

My real fear is that this relentless pace of family fee reform is flawed; as the Justice Committee concluded: «The late commissioning of research, which should have been undertaken before formulating proposals, suggests an attempt to find support for conclusions already reached, rather than a genuinely evidence - based approach to reform.»