Sentences with phrase «most effective reforms»

The natural extension of this is the ability to identify the most effective reforms so that they can be highlighted and applied elsewhere, though this function is naturally the most challenging to put into practice.

To bring about the most effective reforms possible, the Council works in collaborative partnership with Chicago Appleseed, a nonpartisan, independent research and advocacy organization building trustworthy and unique connections between community advocates and the justice system — improving lives by improving courts.

These gains are a result of Denver's ability to enact some of the boldest and most effective reforms of any urban district in the country.

More specifically, I have argued that the single most effective reform we could make to better promote, monitor and enforce high standards of service in the delivery of legal services and to better protect consumers would be to make all law firms subject to the same regulatory arrangements as ILPs.

Not exact matches

McConnell did say repealing Obamacare is a «pretty high item on our agenda» along with comprehensive tax reform and achieving border security «in whatever way is the most effective.»

Without debt overhangs, structural reforms to help business and free up labor markets will be most effective.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

We also call on the Victorian government to work with stakeholders across the food system to understand the need for regulatory reform and explore options for the most suitable and effective way this can be achieved.

Understanding these internal political dynamics also raises interesting questions about which Western foreign policy strategies are likely to be most effective in encouraging economic reform within China.

And don't forget implementing one of the most comprehensive welfare reform packages in the country and, likely, the finest and most cost - effective health care program for uninsured youngsters in the entire country.

We start to see the widespread withdrawal of the «consent to be governed» and across the parties they see the need for comprehensive reform and that those in charge decide that STV is the most effective way to retain or regain widespread consent to be governed and campaign for it.

Select committees have certainly gained a higher profile and, many claim, have become even more assertive and effective, to the extent that the «Wright reforms» have been described by Hagelund and Goddard as «the most significant change to the way that the House operates in 30 years».

«Because of the inclusion of mandatory calorie labeling in the recent health reform bill, it is critical to explore the most effective strategies for presenting caloric information to consumers on fast food restaurant menu boards,» suggest the study's authors.

In most cases, he argues, claims of effective reforms are based on either a misanalysis of test scores or the selection of advantaged students into reform programs.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

If our intent truly is to leave no child behind, then we must accompany our most robust large - scale, general reform initiatives with equally effective specialized approaches for our neediest students.

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 assessment

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

Teachers» unions hated the entire premise of the reforms, which spurred states to adopt policies that gave more money to the most effective teachers and allowed schools to replace the least effective ones.

Such evaluation systems are an essential precondition for effective tenure reform, but have been missing from most past state tenure reform proposals

The RAND study's authors want to convince people that they have identified the most effective interventions and that outcomes are improving as a result of past reforms.

While the sample of schools in this study is limited, the data nonetheless point to reading success in the most effective schools through a combination of locally or regionally developed small - group interventions set within a homegrown school reform model.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

In a study by Coggins et al. (2003) coaches (i.e., teacher leaders) reported that they were most effective supporting their schools» reform efforts when facilitating teams of teachers in meetings that were focused on instruction (such as analysis of student achievement data and discussions of research).

Since the mid-1990s, one increasingly employed approach for raising student achievement — school - level adoption and effective implementation of externally developed, research - based comprehensive school reform models — has been tried in more than 8,000 schools nationwide, most of which are high poverty and low performing.

Such reforms would ensure the most effective teachers remain in the classroom to provide the best possible outcomes for students.

When its most effective, school reform infuses students into ongoing, sustainable school reform activities through deliberate opportunities for learning, teaching, and leadership throughout the educational system.

In using ARRA funds, states and school divisions must advance core reforms identified in the legislation, including: implementation of college - and career - ready standards and assessments for all students; establishment of preschool to postsecondary and career longitudinal data systems; improvement in teacher quality — especially for students most at risk of academic failure; and improvement of low - performing schools through effective interventions.

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!

A new report from EdSource, titled Preparing World Class Teachers: Essential Reforms of Teacher Preparation and Credentialing in California, identifies seven key challenges that the state must address to ensure an effective teaching force — and the most promising strategies to address them at a local and statewide level.

Big Picture Learning is a leader in school reform and is consistently identified by a sweeping range of education leaders as one of the most effective models in the country.

School choice has proved to be one of the most effective K — 12 education reforms of the last century.

America's Choice is one of the most effective and highly regarded K - 12 internationally benchmarked, research - based school reform companies in the US.

The Importance of After - School Programs in Education Reform Worldwide The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project, 2012 Eva L. Baker, President of the World Educational Research Association, describes after - school programs as essential to — and possibly the most effective strategy in — school rReform Worldwide The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project, 2012 Eva L. Baker, President of the World Educational Research Association, describes after - school programs as essential to — and possibly the most effective strategy in — school reformreform.

Further, Marzano's work points emphatically to the importance of quality leadership, which «could be considered the single most important aspect of effective school reform... [I] t influences every aspect of the model» (p. 172).

School districts are the most effective place to direct education reform at scale.

However, restorative practices are most effective when district and campus leaders initiate reforms along with teachers.

The Brief is a follow - up publication to their most recent report written with the George W. Bush Institute's Alliance to Reform Education Leadership, Great Principals at Scale: Creating District Conditions That Enable All Principals to Be Effective.

You can have the most innovative reform plan around, but if you are not effective in communicating about that plan, it will fail.

The same phrase was also inserted after the promise to «ensure the equitable distribution of effective teachers» — a reform aimed at allowing school systems to assign their best teachers to the schools most in need.

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food and clothing industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.213 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture — if any — so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.214, 215, 216

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.192 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture, if any, so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.193, 194, 195

Most of the consultants working today seem to have a good grasp of shelter history and are very competent to lead effective reform efforts.

The third need is for reformed markets to allow proper price signals to be created for investment in the most cost - effective, low emission energy sources, instead of allowing some industries — like LNG — to exclude inconvenient costs (like carbon pollution and environmental degradation from investment calculations.

A flexibility supply curve from NREL researchers shows that the most cost - effective options for increasing reliability are grid operating reforms because there is already more than enough flexibility on the system, Goggin explained.

«We now urge the Commission to bring forward, by the end of the year at the latest, proposals to perform a proper structural reform of the EU ETS, as well as giving investors a clear signal on Europe's low carbon ambition beyond 2020, in order to stimulate low carbon investments and the most cost - effective emission reductions.»

«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.

The most effective solution to this problem is to enact federal legislation, such as the BRIDGE Act, a bill with broad bipartisan support in Congress, with an amendment that would extend DACA protections until comprehensive immigration reform is enacted.