Sentences with phrase «for decisionmaking»

There were three interwoven strands to the problem: identifying which incidents of non-fatal self - harm by prisoners might call for independent investigation; working out the best procedure for decisionmaking about setting up an independent investigation; and determining the form of any independent investigation which was necessary.

Beginning in Fall 2017, he law school has begun offering a suite of five courses through the university's Kellogg School of Management: Accounting for Decisionmaking; Business Analytics; Business Strategy; Finance 1; and Leadership in Organizations.

a. have a system of governance that designates rules, procedures, and the individual or group responsible for decisionmaking regarding data collection, use, access, sharing, and security, and use of online educational programs;

Raising Kane: The Value of Regional Educational Laboratories March 13, 2015 A strong advocate for the use of evidence to improve education, Education Northwest Chief Executive Officer Steve Fleischman provides several examples of the effectiveness of the federal Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) program in connecting stakeholders with research - based best practices and promoting the use of data for decisionmaking.

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The federal government should restore the independence of the National Energy Board's (NEB) decisionmaking authority for pipeline applications, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute...

«We must deliver the right information at the right time for faster and better decisionmaking and help customers leverage their software investment,» Benadretti says.

Exxon Mobil also has adopted a proxy price for carbon, in some cases as high as $ 80 per ton of CO2, to hedge against future government regulation of carbon and help guide company decisionmaking around infrastructure investments and other capital spending.

Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors, centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.

There were only four films nominated for the category DEMOCRACY for promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites (Bitter Harvest, The Post, Tickling Giants, A United Kingdom).

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Thoughtful, well - intentioned advocates such as Charles Kerchner and Adam Urbanski call for unions and districts to work together to foster professionalism, create pleasant working conditions, and involve teachers in governance and decisionmaking (see «Reform or Be Reformed,» forum, Fall 2001).

But if I actually use data from my heartbeat, calories, and intervals completed to inform my decisionmaking (put down the chips) and actions (increase heartbeat for 5 more minutes), I start seeing positive changes.

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

Current discussions of the importance of teacher quality for achievement generally ignore such environmental features as district management and decisionmaking.

The call for the greater integration of evidence into decisionmaking is right and needed.

Our students face many risk factors once they leave us — peers who do not always encourage good decisionmaking, bureaucratic educational institutions, employers who do not always treat them well, family members who do not necessarily believe in their ability to succeed, and a society that has too little regard for low - income black teens.

They must care for followers and involve them in the decisionmaking process.

For these constituents, the costs of becoming informed and actively participating in school district decisionmaking are low relative to the benefits to be gained.

According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), five competency clusters drive student learning: self - awareness; self - management; social awareness; relationship skills; and responsible decisionmaking.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

The 21st Century Education Commission in Rhode Island issued its final report last month, calling for an array of reforms ranging from shared decisionmaking at every school to creation of a series of professional - development schools to train teachers.

Failing to adequately educate our nation's youth by reducing the cost per class is not a blueprint for informed local resource decisionmaking.

Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado unveils a teacher contract for Denver that abolishes many traditional job protections in exchange for giving teachers unusually wide decisionmaking latitude.

For example, one characteristic of successful principal leadership is the ability to delegate power throughout the school and create networks of decisionmaking teams.

A goal for the latter part of the book is to try to reconstruct a thicker view of how to connect knowledge to public action, one that recognizes the importance of values, welcomes democratic decisionmaking, is aware of the limits of different forms of knowledge, and is not utopian in its aims but is still hopeful about how we can make public progress on a range of social problems.

Moreover, research suggests that changes in school culture and classroom instructional practice are necessary requirements for improving pupil achievement, and that just redistributing decisionmaking power and resources is not enough.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

We believe the most promising approach is to move decisionmaking closer to the consumers of K — 12 public education by unleashing pent - up demand and empowering parents to choose schools for their children.

The OneApp has reduced opportunities for schools to engage in these behaviors by transferring decisionmaking authority in admissions from schools to the centralized process.

«Social - emotional learning» has emerged as a critical issue in many K - 12 systems today, as administrators and teachers search for ways to support students» self - management, sound decisionmaking, and problem - solving.

For the most part, the labs are not building the capacity of districts and state agencies to gather evidence and measure impacts but are launching research projects that are disconnected from decisionmaking.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

The many calls for «evidence based» decisionmaking notwithstanding, most of our major policy and reform initiatives have either been launched without any prior research on their efficacy, and without provisions for assessing their intended and unintended effects, or have ignored or misused whatever relevant research evidence was available when...

Mr. Goodling praised the House GOP and the panel he chairs for emphasizing efforts to improve the quality of federal education programs and for beginning a drive to move more decisionmaking to the local level.

But even if the measures were perfect, the potential for consumer information to change student decisionmaking may still be constrained by the fact that many students only consider institutions near where they live, due to a desire or need to remain close home (e.g., due to work or family obligations).

And for charter school operators and other school turnaround players, it means putting parents at the head of education decisionmaking and governance.

Instructional decisionmaking had only been in place at the school for a handful of months when the students took the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills last spring.

The instructional - decisionmaking structure needs a better place for children who are gifted, teachers say.

The morning session will feature a series of briefings for school board members from subject matter experts on key topics that will help to inform your decisionmaking.

«Having a say in how our schools look and function will play a role in their decisionmaking about whether they're going to stay for another 10 years, or two, or five,» Ms. Coggins said.

At the same time, data - informed decisionmaking is only partly about data, according to Data - Informed Leadership in Education, a report by the University of Washington's Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy.

In addition to this coordination, IPIC represents DOT in convening internal working groups of subject matter experts to ensure prompt implementation and use of statutory tools to facilitate coordinated review and decisionmaking among DOT Operating Administrations, which can provide a further groundwork for One Federal Decision among sister agencies going forward.

DOT also remains committed to bringing government decisionmaking closer to communities and people affected by these decisions, and ensuring opportunities for greater public participation in providing input into these decisions relating to human health and the environment.

NEPA also requires Federal agencies to use an interdisciplinary approach in planning and decisionmaking for any action that adversely impacts the environment.

(Sec. 1310) Revises requirements for application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects, including acceleration of decisionmaking in environmental reviews.

In particular, he had become increasingly frustrated over the development of a supersonic transport, because he thought the Defense Department had locked the FAA out of the administration's decisionmaking for the program.

For a relative neophyte like me, you have made our decisionmaking process clearer.

The Fed sets yields and prices for credit, but with little to guide their decisionmaking.

The firm expects to target mainly 403 (b) church plans, but a recent nod of approval by the Department of Labor for greater use of environmental and social factors in qualified retirement plan investment decisionmaking could change that moving forward.