Sentences with phrase «including by policymakers»

They said that the document was in any case only at a preliminary stage and would be vetted several times, including by policymakers, before it is approved.

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The Initiative is informed by regular meetings of experts in the sector, policymakers and supporters engaged in the financial services sector, including financial intermediaries, securities market participants and their regulators, among others.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet senior European officials later in the day in Brussels, where he is expected to hear the terms of a plan drawn up this week by top policymakers including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

This policy brief developed by the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center describes eight strategies that policymakers can consider as they determine how to get started with developing infant - toddler policies, including examples of states currently implementing each of the strategies.

Global interconnectedness, including in the patient pool faced by clinicians and constituents served by policymakers, also means that more research on the cultural scope of fathering and its impact on children is warranted.

The interactive panel discussion, organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), gathers members of the public and policymakers with researchers who will present their findings on subjects including crime, poverty and ageing.

Holt and talk - show host Thom Hartmann discussed a non-partisan 28 June letter sent to policymakers by 31 leading scientific societies, including AAAS, which warned of negative climate - change impacts to the global economy, natural resources, national security and human health.

News of the science consortium's 28 June letter to policymakers was picked up by dozens of media outlets, including the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, Scientific American, The Independent, and many others.

The Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act of 2009 mandates the establishment of an «information exchange» to «make information on ocean acidification developed through or utilized by the interagency ocean acidification program accessible through electronic means, including information which would be useful to policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in mitigating or adapting to the impacts of ocean acidification.»

There is a growing demand for preventative care solutions — including advanced diagnostic services — by physicians, hospitals, clinics, insurers, policymakers and employers who are seeking to address the epidemic of costly life - threatening and chronic conditions; True Health Diagnostics anticipates rapid growth and the creation of additional high quality jobs for North Texans in 2015.

By 1990, Congress required that the costs of default payments be included in the current year projections, forcing policymakers to look at the real costs of making student loans.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

«If we want to see improvement in the next 20 years, we need a real commitment by our policymakers to implement coordinated, sustained and interconnected strategies to improve student performances, including by reducing disparities between schools and by making teaching more attractive to highly able school leavers.»

The hope, says Levinson, is that these examples — as well as the included written responses by leading practitioners, policymakers, and philosophers — will aid educators in handling ethical dilemmas as they are encountered in their own daily lives.

The study also showed no discernible impact for either group on many of the long - term outcomes desired by policymakers, including minimizing grade retention and dependence on public assistance and positively impacting later employment and earnings.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school - choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

Though controversial among teachers and others, the method has been increasingly embraced by education leaders and policymakers across the country, including the Obama administration.

By all accounts, including their own press release, they fought against an accountability plan developed by a broad - based, bipartisan group of educators and policymakers, and on top of it, wrote the group off as «big city bosses.&raquBy all accounts, including their own press release, they fought against an accountability plan developed by a broad - based, bipartisan group of educators and policymakers, and on top of it, wrote the group off as «big city bosses.&raquby a broad - based, bipartisan group of educators and policymakers, and on top of it, wrote the group off as «big city bosses.»

Worse, many other administrative arrangements which are effective with the gifted and are centered in the regular classroom, including ability grouping, cluster grouping, and acceleration, are now considered politically off limits by educational policymakers.

Since 1986, the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) has conducted and analyzed research; sponsored workshops and national conferences; and collaborated with researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to further the mission of reducing America's dropout rate by meeting the needs of youth in at - risk situations, including students with disabilities.

Policymakers must ensure that each student has access to effective educators by making the necessary investments along the career continuum, including incentives for recruiting and retaining candidates; personalized and ongoing professional development; flexible routes to licensure based on rigorous professional standards; leadership opportunities and development; and collaboration among higher education institutions and local districts.

To identify relevant findings and create field benefits, the initiative includes a multi-year research study by the RAND Corporation that will produce public reports for policymakers and practitioners that shed light on:

Additionally, ESSA includes multiple funding streams that could be used by state and local policymakers to implement programs, build educator capacity, and support further research into students» learning mindsets and skills and their effect on student achievement.

By including learning mindsets and skills among the components of a high - quality, well - rounded education, policymakers can ensure that students — and schools — are growing to their full potential.

The report recommends several solutions including that legislators and policymakers address these barriers by providing equitable and adequate special education funding to charter schools and authorizers through a system that prioritizes accountability, local control, and responsiveness to evolving needs of students.

Released by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal initiative that aims to inform educators and policymakers as they work toward improving education, the compiled resources also include an instructional video that shows how to use the WWC when making decisions about new math programs, policies, and practices.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

Recently, there has been a push by policymakers to expand accountability measures to include parenting practices.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Finally, it is possible that if researchers and policymakers were to begin an in - depth examination of where child maltreatment (including by other students) and educator misconduct of all kinds occurs more according to school type — public schooling, private schooling, or homeschooling — they might find that a higher rate of harm is associated with institutional schooling.

The GradNation campaign, launched in 2010, included the creation of a Civic Marshall Plan, to bring together policymakers, educators, business leaders, community allies, parents and students to address the dropout epidemic by focusing on the dropout factory high schools and their feeder elementary and middle schools.

His empirical scholarship is heavily used by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, and his research has been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Distinguished Special Education Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Education Research Division.

At LILA, you will hear from and speak with national education leaders, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and proactively advocate for what matters most in your school and district by participating in Capitol Hill meetings with your federal policymakers.

«By expanding the CalEITC to include eligible self - employed workers, while also lifting the income limit for eligibility, state policymakers will help more hard - working Californians to afford the basics and advance economically.»

This eBook by IDRA provides links to tons of resources for schools, communities and policymakers, including data, toolkits, videos, best practices and strategies.

The event, held in Washington, D.C. and simultaneously webcast, will include a discussion about the charter school deserts located in the shadow of the Washington Monument, and an examination what might be done by philanthropists, policymakers, and others to irrigate them.

Advocates, parents, and policymakers must push back against these policies to ensure that all children, including those with disabilities, get the education they deserve and is afforded to them by federal law.

Other projects include connecting researchers to federal and state policymakers, supporting children affected by the opoid epidemic, sending students to the United Nations climate conference, and collaborating with cooperative businesses for experiential learning.

By including industrial energy efficiency as a core component of economic development strategies, policymakers can help ensure that today's capital investments in infrastructure and industry leave U.S. manufacturers better positioned to compete in the 21st century.

Significant research on climate engineering, including, for some technologies, outdoor experimentation, is already occurring, and climate engineering pathways are already being considered seriously by scientists and policymakers.

While IPCC's dozens of authors are unpaid, at least three of the NIPCC's four lead authors are paid by the Heartland Institute... The IPCC reviews the current state of scientific knowledge, while the NIPCC's references in its Summary for Policymakers include publications that date back to 1904 and few references from this century other than non-peer-reviewed reports from itself and its authors.

Lovegrove expressed the hope that the related ITP report on dispatchable options helps policymakers better include the value brought by CST and others in designing this possible replacement.

Our studies are conducted by more than 300 economists from internationally renowned institutions, including seven Nobel Laureates, to advise policymakers and philanthropists how to achieve the best results with their limited resources.

By joining EP100, companies become part of a high - profile global media campaign that communicates the strong business case for doubling energy productivity to key stakeholders including consumers, policymakers and financiers.

By participating in networks and partnerships, policymakers and institutions not only develop awareness and understanding, but also share knowledge about the best practices for incorporating HFC emissions into GHG accounting, and best implement integrated emission reduction plans that include HFCs.

The assessment includes an analysis of policy responses and the opportunities available to policymakers to maximize the benefits offered by the environment.

A recent study led by Bronson Griscom, director of forest carbon science at The Nature Conservancy, was key to convincing policymakers of the need to advance climate - smart initiatives for the land sector — including forests, wetlands and especially agriculture.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»