Sentences with phrase «lead some state policymakers»

Conservative Leaders for Education (CL4E) is a coalition comprised of leading state policymakers focused on ensuring that conservative principles gain traction in state decisions.

With high - profile personalities and deep pockets, these groups have managed to lead some state policymakers and concerned individuals to believe there is strong public support for such a radical change.

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«As a state policymaker and father of two, I enthusiastically encourage everyone to participate in US Veg Week by treating themselves to more fresh fruits and vegetables that can lead to a longer, healthier life — and lifestyle.»

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

«Policymakers at both the state and federal level must act to support medically underserved communities that depend on health centers,» says lead author of the report, Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, a professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at Milken Institute SPH.

«Our findings are informative for residents and policymakers in states with ACA Medicaid expansions in place because it will help them understand the impacts of those expansions,» said Laura Wherry, assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the study's lead author.

By creating a set of common expectations across states, the designers of the Common Core sought to protect the initiative from the inevitable political pressures that might lead policymakers to weaken the standards or the aligned assessments.

«We publish books, reports, and briefing papers that illuminate critical problems and advance innovative solutions; work at both the national and state level with advocates and policymakers to promote reforms; help to build the capacity and skills of key progressive constituencies; project our values into the media by promoting Demos Fellows and staff in print, broadcast, and Internet venues; and host public events that showcase new ideas and leading progressive voices.»

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.»

For Bay State policymakers to follow England's lead in education would be like the Red Sox taking coaching tips from the lowly Kansas City Royals.

Their successes have led community organizers and a growing number of education policymakers to see California's fledgling community schooling movement as a holistic, bottom - up reform that can restore equality of opportunity and the democratic promise of the state's system of universal public education.

Kinney regularly consults with high - level education officials and policymakers, leads the organization's national and state policy initiatives, and has testified before Congress on the future of learning.

Among federal, state, and local education agencies and policymakers, who should take the lead in developing assessment literacy?

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Mr. Reville had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

Within states, education policy - making isn't led by one person or entity, but many — state legislatures, state education agencies, state and local boards of education, the governor, Read more about Aspen Institute Releases Checklist for Education Policymakers -LSB-...]

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

Following the lead of Tennessee and Louisiana, policymakers in a growing number of states are evaluating the programs — and even issuing report cards for them — based on the test scores of their graduates» students.

The Leading Places Network Task Force will design and support a network of leading states, districts, and higher education institutions to enable k — 12 school systems with strong performance assessment systems to engage more deliberately with postsecondary institutions and policymakers to strengthen those systems and expand theLeading Places Network Task Force will design and support a network of leading states, districts, and higher education institutions to enable k — 12 school systems with strong performance assessment systems to engage more deliberately with postsecondary institutions and policymakers to strengthen those systems and expand theleading states, districts, and higher education institutions to enable k — 12 school systems with strong performance assessment systems to engage more deliberately with postsecondary institutions and policymakers to strengthen those systems and expand their use.

For example, online webinars and seminars will allow state board members to interact directly with leading researchers, local practitioners and state policymakers who will provide comprehensive perspectives on considerations across the nation to prepare students for 21st century demands.

Poor performance by testing vendors leads jittery state policymakers to cast blame and seek out new vendors.

In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.

That, in turn, has led many state policymakers to try to reduce or remove student growth from teacher evaluation systems.

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.

The state of climate science should be concerning to everyone, regardless of where scientific evidence leads and how policymakers choose to act on scientific knowledge.

Participants include heads of state, policymakers, CEOs, leading scientists and highly influential non-profit organizations, including the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).

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.»

The DQC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, leads a partnership of nearly 100 organizations that supports state policymakers and other key leaders to promote the development and effective use of statewide longitudinal data systems that link early childhood, K — 12, postsecondary, and workforce data.