Sentences with phrase «larger policy context»

But it also involves the larger policy context, which provides logics of action that become linked to classroom practice via the data use routines.

Superintendent Joshua Starr of Montgomery County Public Schools and Ron Rode, the Executive Director of Accountability in San Diego Unified School District, discussed how this research is being used to support policy and practice in their districts, as well as the larger policy context.

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Because some asset prices may fall more abruptly than they rise, and because the effects of downward moves in asset prices on demand may be larger due to the greater negative impact of deflation on the net worth of borrowers — witness the United States in the 1930s or Japan in the 1990s, the case for adjusting monetary policy in response to negative asset price shocks is commonly considered more compelling than in the alternative context.

If the discipline of economics were still understood as political economy, there would be an academically - educated community to which policy makers could turn for guidance, one which would reflect on the role of the economy in a larger context.

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

While doing so, he moves seamlessly among three areas, situating accounts of Canada's life and policies within the larger context of previous movements to alleviate the consequences of poverty, class and race.

Such actions, combined with the reluctance to join PAROS, and the larger context of U.S. space policy, amplify the concerns of other countries.

Each of these sections has two parts: a brief discussion of background, situating the research in its larger context, and a review of the literacy policy research within each perspective.

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

But I would point to the fact that many teacher preparation programs don't offer future teachers as much clinical training as they ought to receive — especially training in high - needs schools; that districts are by and large not as effective as they might be at teacher induction and professional development; that teachers are generally under - compensated and specific individual excellence isn't rewarded; and that the policy contexts in which teachers work are being constantly revised in ways that are sometimes contrary to research evidence.

As they also note, this would also require that «validation studies... be undertaken to ensure validity in interpretations of results within the larger accountability policy context where schools and teachers are evaluated.»

In examining the issues and exercise of power that are sustained in the long - standing policy of standardized testing in schools, this work provides a big picture perspective on assessment practices over time in the U. S.; by examining the rise of value - added assessment in Tennessee, a fine - grained and contemporary case is provided within that larger context.

At the moment, large - scale, accountability - oriented policy contexts are pervasive for educational leaders across the country.

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The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

This brief analysis summarizes the main findings of the report, reflects on the SPM approval process, and places the meeting in the larger context of evolving global climate policy.

«The context here is that climate activists have long accused Exxon — along with various other large energy companies — of seeking to influence the climate policy debate to their benefit.

And, we would ask, what are the human security issues that must be addressed in the larger international policy context?

While this method is useful to gain context specific insights into the effectiveness of climate policies, statistical studies based on large sample sizes allow analysts to control for various factors and yield generalizable results.

... Hartmann goes on to suggest that «this beating of the climate conflict drums has to be viewed in the context of larger orchestrations in U.S. national security policy.»

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

The administration recognizes that these are hard times for the auto industry, and we are exploring a process to develop a national policy for autos within the context of larger restructuring negotiations

You may also want to talk to your lawyer, accountant, or financial advisor to get a better sense of how this policy will work in the context of your larger financial safety net.

But that is also a matter of context in which a large life insurance policy is purchased on a child, who, for example, if you know will go to college and will most probably borrow loans for education, a $ 200,000 policy does not sound high.

Within the larger context of child welfare policy and practice, the fact that most children go back to their birth parents after placement reflects the central importance of reunification as an outcome of foster care placement.

Including more context to the event in large - scale surveys such as GUS can only enable researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand these events in more detail.