Sentences with phrase «examine policy challenges»

Equity Coalition members meet in person and virtually to explore common ground, articulate priority goals related to students with disabilities, examine policy challenges and continue to build bridges to address specific issues such as funding, legal status, providing a full continuum of special education services, special education infrastructures, and authorizer standards.

It will be followed at 10 a.m. by a keynote address by Mandla S. Makhanya, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa who will examine policy challenges facing governments and institutions in this field.

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The book examines the challenges to China's rise and discusses their impact and the policy prescriptions available to confront them.

She is also examining the challenges that new forms of biotechnology pose for political and public policy organizations, and the regulatory innovations that emerge alongside developments in cutting edge technologies.

Project Citizen provides resources to help students (and teachers) work through the challenge of identifying a problem, gathering information, examining solutions, developing a public policy, and implementing an action plan to effect change.

We explore the variety of content available to young people and their families; document the developing child's patterns of use and understanding of media; examine theories and methods for assessing media effects; review research on the role of media in shaping individual identity, social relationships, and responses to challenging issues; and analyze public policies that affect media creators, consumers, and citizens.

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student...

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

KerryAnn O'Meara, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) will help participants examine how faculty work is taken up, assigned, and rewarded; develop solutions, strategies, and evidence - based practices that take on the thorniest equity challenges directly; and draft and gain consensus on policies and practices to make faculty work more visible, accountable, and credited.

The program examines the challenges of leading the development and implementation of effective policy and practice in...

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

The DC Learning Lab opened with a panel discussion that examined the strengths and challenges of federal education policy implementation.

At the same time, there is an opportunity today to look at the challenge of Latino college access and success from a broad platform — one that creates not only common ground but common cause; one that examines state level policies and practices; one that assumes that the future is neither in someone else's hands, nor in our individual hands, but in our connected hands.

Additionally, this webinar will highlight the latest research on ensuring positive outcomes for ELs; share concrete professional development strategies for teachers and administrators; examine policy supports at the federal, state, and local levels; and explore the inherent challenges in ensuring sufficient qualified teachers for ELs.

This panel examined key policy takeaways from the 2015 PISA results, reviewed strategies to increase the global competitiveness of American students, and previewed opportunities and challenges in regard to the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act and the incoming Trump administration.

This issue of Policy Priorities examines the challenges education stakeholders face in bringing career readiness into balance with college readiness.

Additionally, this webinar: highlighted the latest research on ensuring positive outcomes for ELs; shared concrete professional development strategies for teachers and administrators; examined policy supports at the federal, state, and local levels; and explored the inherent challenges in ensuring sufficient qualified teachers for ELs.

We will continue to collaboratively examine policies, programs and practices that both support and challenge the social, emotional and academic learning needs of all students.

The purpose of this lecture is to consider some of the ways in which educational researchers and policy makers have identified, examined, and sought to address the goals and challenges of preK - 12 public education in the United States.

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

This Article, excerpted from Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach, eds., Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (forthcoming in 2018 from ELI Press), examines how these challenges can be overcome with targeted legal and policy reforms.

SEI's work sheds light on major ethical issues in climate policy, examines key governance challenges, and offers new analytical frameworks centred on equity.

The purpose of the Inquiry was «to examine whether current recruitment and training practices and policies in the Australian Public service are adequate to meet the challenges the APS faces».7

As part of the BUILD Initiative and the Early Learning Challenge Collaborative application review, the Child and Family Policy Center (CFPC) examined applicant responses to determine what approaches and strategies were being proposed for family engagement.

The report, «America's Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs,» edited by Marcia Fernald, examines the demographics of those who rent, the housing stock and its condition, construction trends and public - policy challenges now and in the future.