Sentences with phrase «how effective our reforms»

«The Council has committed to holding a hearing at the end of the session to review how effective our reforms package has been, and how we might be able to strengthen the Council in the future,» Mark - Viverito said.

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How effective was Mr Tsipras» government in implementing reforms and restoring fiscal sustainability?

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, said: «Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption.»

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

As the NASUWT warned at the time, Government reforms to the National Curriculum were driven through without effective consideration being given to how this curriculum would be assessed.

«Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union.

Since little data exists on how effective aligning teaching with scientists» understanding of child cognition would be, Willingham suggests creating a pilot program of the reforms within college of education.

They learned how to align family engagement programs with standards - based reform, and also how to truly develop and evaluate an integrated and effective family engagement initiative in their schools and districts.

How effective have President Obama and Arne Duncan been as spokesmen for education reform?

The Committee is currently inviting written submissions addressing the following topics: - The purpose of primary assessment and how well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessmhow well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessmHow the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessment

At the Askwith Forum, Doug Lemov, author and managing director at Uncommon Schools, will reflect on what makes for effective teaching, how teaching can and should be the centerpiece of school reform, how teaching skills can be effectively developed, and the policy implications of such topics.

Contributors including Deborah Meier, Jeannie Oakes, Gloria Ladson - Billings, Wayne Au, Katy Swalwell, Anthony Cody, and Jim Cummins explain how reform movements affect teachers and administrators, and how widely - accepted mistruths can hinder genuine efforts to keep public education equitable, effective, and above all, truly public.

Our opposition is never going to believe that charter schooling is an effective reform, but I think there are a lot of people in the middle who either don't know what a charter school is or are misguided about what it is and how it functions.

Listening to this show really helped me understand how effective, comprehensive character education can be a part of the reform so obviously needed in American schools.

With states taking on a bigger role in assessing accountability for school reforms, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a paper this week outlining its thoughts on how states can craft effective accountability systems.

Research examining how effective leaders leverage incentives and penalties in our schools, districts, and state offices of education, then, is critical for a deeper understanding of how accountability can be a constructive force for meaningful education reform.

They are all impressed by how gritty and effective the Obama administration has been in holding the line and inciting real education reform.

The emphasis on standardized testing in corporate reform is even more amazing when you consider what Sarah Darer Littman says: that the reformers aren't even sure how to make their Common Core Standards standard in the most effective way!

How to overcome the challenges of poverty is at the center of the debate over education reform, with an increasing focus on effective teaching.

The School Leadership District Cohort is a professional learning community of four selected school districts from across the U.S. that will work hand - in - hand with the Bush Institute's Education Reform team to improve how they find, support, and keep effective principals.

If we accept the premise that student - centered learning can be a highly effective strategy for many kinds of classrooms and school populations, how can we ensure it is implemented effectively, with intelligence, and without the rigid dogma that so often leads to the failure of so many sweeping educational reforms?

New York, NY — With the increasing national focus on state leadership in education policy reform, New Leaders» latest publication, Change Agents: How States Can Develop Effective Leaders, makes the case that now is the time for states to improve the preparation and licensure of principals.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

In our Reform Governance ® in Action program, school board / superintendent teams receive training on how to become effective — even transformational — leaders.

Understanding that our options for a reformed housing finance system is not constrained to a single model, and that a permanent source of private capital can be available under these different constructs, allows policymakers and stakeholders to examine the best system for addressing the concerns / flaws that exist today and how to make a more effective and efficient system in the future.

«The problem here and in other jurisdictions is criminal justice resourcing and reforms [are] piecemeal at best, but I would say chaotic describes how governments have funded and implemented reforms to the criminal justice system to make it more efficient and effective, and it seems to be one of the poor boys on the budget priority list in most provinces,» he says.

Our exploration of the Social Lab as a way to close the implementation gap for family justice reform, has revealed how valuable the mediation skillset is to encourage effective collaboration, to interpret the world from a variety of different perspectives, to engage with those both within and outside of the «system», to value curiosity and learning, and to do joint problem - solving.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report released today by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) highlights how Ohio's asbestos trust transparency law has been effective at discouraging fraud and abuse without compromising the interests of plaintiffs.

We have played an active role in regulatory reform efforts related to Dodd - Frank, monitoring rulemakings for our clients and advising them on how to comply with the rules once finalized and effective.

Join Lori for a conversation with attorney, mediator, educator and trainer Stephen Erickson, J.D. of the Erickson Mediation Institute, a leading proponent of the use of mediation as the best, most effective way to reform how divorce is conducted in family court systems around the country.

In the following section I discuss how the system can be reformed to strengthen the effective participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.