Sentences with phrase «from decisionmaking»

Students also reported being excluded from the decisionmaking process.

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.

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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...

Disaster - struck communities tend to rebuild from floods and violent storms using decisionmaking tools that rely too much on past data, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday.

But experts in the energy industry warn that the state corporation - dominated decisionmaking process could stall the government's ultimate goal — to shift away from coal — because the statistics that have been announced may not be accurate.

Klink touted the work Brazil has done to meet its Copenhagen target and exceed its pledge to cut deforestation by 80 percent from historic levels by 2020, as well as to weave climate change into the highest levels of government decisionmaking.

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.

For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites, select only one from the following:

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.

To the extent, if any, that parents prioritize test scores in their decisionmaking calculus, they are likely to approve of the data from charter schools in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (Figure 2).

A broad coalition of education leaders, ranging from the Gates Foundation to Digital Promise and the Office of Education Technology, has championed linking evidence to decisionmaking.

«As a result, some of the decisionmaking about whether to apply to a specific college happens away from the school's official channels.

GLEP executive director Gary Naeyaert criticized the proposal as «anti-choice» with «czar - like power» that would take decisionmaking away from families and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

Ofsted has three primary functions: 1) to offer feedback to the school principal and teachers; 2) to provide information to parents to aid their decisionmaking process; and 3) to identify schools that suffer from «serious weakness.»

So many other funders working in areas from housing to immigration to historical preservation do not have the kind of data that could drive 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.

The shared - decisionmaking structure in the 38,800 - student district has fostered a «committee culture» that blurs lines of accountability and has left Superintendent Alton Frailey and school board members with little authority, argue representatives from the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Baptist Ministers Conference.

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.

The threshold becomes a major bargaining tool, quite divorced from the informed decisionmaking objective.

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

What is clear from all three situations is that families aren't simply satisfied with passive roles in education decisionmaking.

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.

WHAT»S WRONG: Too many «reforms» remove schools from local control, muting the voices and decisionmaking power of parents and local communities.

DOT is committed to engaging low - income and minority populations in the transportation decisionmaking across all OAs, from the earliest stages of planning through project implementation.

Given EPA's acceleration of its decisionmaking schedule, NHTSA needs guidance from OST regarding how and to what extent it should adjust its schedule in response to EPA's actions.

Here are five facts about student loans in America, based on a Pew Research Center analysis of recently released data from the Federal Reserve Board's 2016 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking:

«In contrast, defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plan annuitants believe they are more financially secure because of their annuity than their friends and neighbors who don't have guaranteed income from an annuity (58 %), and a nearly equal percentage believe they are more confident in their financial decisionmaking (56 %).»

On part loaded condition the marginal cost of electricity from diesel generator could be higher than 20 Rs / kWh (US$ 0.31), but due to the lack of policy certainty and delays in decisionmaking, we are yet to achieve goals set up for «Greening the Islands».

But what is the role of the social scientist, as distinct from the natural scientist, in characterizing the climate change problem and connecting it to societal decisionmaking?

In addition to sharpening focus on key aspects of bias and predetermination, the bridge he managed to build between the more trusting and more restrictive approaches respectively of Collins J in Island Farm and Richards J in Georgiou is useful based on the «appropriate caution» counsel from Richards J and the consequent view that the bias test should not be applied in a way that will render local authority decisionmaking impossible or unduly difficult.

But perhaps the most scholarly perspective came from law professor and blogger Eugene Volokh, who reported that «such random (or close to random) decisionmaking isn't entirely novel to the legal system.»

The latest book by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner takes a skeptical look at judicial decisionmaking, criticizing judges who stray from the text in interpreting statutes and constitutional provisions.

While a utilitarian would be focused on whether civilian (and military) casualties would be less if autonomous weapons were used, a Kantian would object to the removal of humans from the lethal decisionmaking altogether.

«[Mother] appeals from post-dissolution of marriage order awarding all parenting time and decisionmaking responsibility to [father] and allowing mother no contact with the children except with father's written permission.]