Sentences with phrase «further efforts at reform»

Produced in conjunction with the new Stanford Criminal Justice Center, this Issue reflects such an effort to restate the major lessons about sentencing reform from the past twenty - five years, and to do so in a manner that will assist further efforts at reform.

Not exact matches

So, while I wish the sponsors of the present legislation good luck with their efforts so far, I hope they'll follow them up with some reforms specifically aimed at replacing the present, unreliable, and inefficient monetary control system with a more old - fashioned, but nonetheless better, alternative.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Presidents at least as far back as Bill Clinton have made attendance a priority of their school - reform efforts, in part because of the social costs of youngsters not attending.

Pereira — and hundreds of thousands of teenagers like her throughout the country — are at the vortex of the most far - reaching high school reform effort in a half - century.

Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.

Cameron joined Education Pioneers to expand his leadership skills and gain further knowledge around the conception and implementation of reform efforts at educational organizations.

«A strategic use of state - funded vouchers could be appropriate, but this diversion of public education dollars was a step too far and diminishes resources for meaningful reform efforts already underway at the local level.»

Since change takes time, our ability to analyze the impact of the reform effort has thus far been limited by the small number of schools which have been in the project for at least 2 years.

Like much that takes place in public education these days, this effort to secure state approval fits the «corporate education reform» agenda, is based on misleading information and deception, and will result in further undermining established teacher training programs while — at the same time — continuing to enrich those who seek to profit and privatize public education.

Consequently, doctrinal entrenchment, by undermining FISA's statutory design and cramping efforts at reform from within, further exacerbates the costs of stare decisis in the FISA context.

Here's a short look at the story so far, plus five factors that will determine if this year's patent reform effort will fare any better than 2011 and 2014 — and a prediction of how it will all turn out.