Sentences with phrase «national focus»

Similarly, we've just had an intense national focus on the impact of disclosure of hacked emails.

We have taken the early lead in issues such as crude - oil transportation by rail and white - nose syndrome, both of which have become subjects of national focus and concern.

Our industry contacts and analytical tools allowed us to focus on «bigger games» with national focus — leading to more contrarian betting value.

Other efforts are more promising, including a growing national focus on feed - in tariffs as a key policy tool for promoting renewable energy.

Our industry contacts and analytical tools allowed us to focus on «bigger games» with national focus — leading to more contrarian value.

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

One of the new national focuses in US education is the wider - spread adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

«To tackle the nation's education gap, we need a new national focus on early learning to give children the best start — not just increasing free childcare hours, but boosting nursery quality.»

Death or Dishonor is focusing on central Europe, introducing National Focus trees for four nations.

Shifting national focus However, through ukactive and Compass we have the ability to deliver collective action.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

«A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the...

In 2013, she was on the project team for the Dance Heritage Coalition's Artist - Driven Archives project which convened several national focus groups including one that she conducted on «Documenting the Creative Process».

We love celebrating libraries every week at BookPage, but April 14 - 20 places national focus on one of our favorite times of year: National Library Week!

If social democrats step back from their own national focus and look at the bigger picture, they will realize just how vulnerable and ideologically staid European social democracy as a political movement currently is.»

The PE crisis is real and undeniable, so much so that America has reached one of those fitness moments of truth that periodically bring calls for a new PE back into national focus.

Without No Child, there is no Race to the Top, no teacher quality reform movement, no discussion about value - added assessment and no real national focus on stemming achievement gaps.

But while the debate around higher academic standards has sharpened national focus on the reading of complex, discipline - specific informational texts, educators have been grappling with how to help content - area teachers support student literacy for decades.

University of Wisconsin - Madison education historian William Reese sees the current national focus on teacher improvement as another iteration of a longstanding prejudice against teachers, citing historic stereotypes like the fussy spinster school marm or the awkward, clueless Ichabod Crane in «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.»

Hearts of Iron IV is being released alongside the first minor power National Focus DLC, Poland: United and Ready which is available to all customers for free!

Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns: The newest expansion to Hearts of Iron brings greater depth and customization to the naval aspect of war, new National Focus options for the United States, unique actions for democracies and much more.

At American Rivers, we combine a strong national focus with a targeted local presence.

For example, the report states that renewables accounted for 9 per cent of China's energy consumption in 2010, but it does not say how much of that was due to the long - standing national focus on hydroelectricity.

With staple food prices to rise over 45 % over the next decade and major oil disasters bringing national focus to our over-dependence on fossil fuels, 2 % is no chump change.

The study was done in February and March to coincide with Sunshine Week, an annual national focus on government openness in public meetings and public information.

The announcement followed calls from more than 100 organisations yesterday for the ToR to examine both specific NT concerns, and to take a wider national focus.

Reconciliation Australia is the new and independent organisation established to provide and encourage an ongoing national focus and leadership for the process of reconciliation following the cessation of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation on 31 December 2000.

Despite the increased national focus on reducing hospital readmissions, Dharmarajan said it had not been clear whether hospitals with the lowest readmission rates have been especially good at reducing readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after hospitalization, or have instead lowered readmissions more generally.

Anyway, these new adventures these countries will be able to experience thanks to the new National Focus trees are sure to spice up the interesting pre-War phase of Hearts of Iron, the phase that most interested me when I was playing the game originally last year.

The 30 House Dems at the Top of the GOP's Target List, plus Redrawing The Lines: Growing National Focus on Redistricting.

That's thanks not only to the end of the legal cloud that has hung over the WFP's head since the 2009 NYC elections; but also to the success of its longtime ally, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and renewed national focus on its top agenda item: Bridging the income equality gap.

Randi Weingarten, AFT president, is quoted in USA Today as saying that over the past few years, teachers have swapped one kind of stress — an intense national focus on standardized skills tests — for another, the nastiness of our political debate.

«A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution.

Methodology: ERA Real Estate, in conjunction with HGTV, surveyed consumers participating in HGTV's «Under the Roof» national focus group to uncover attitudes and opinions about smart home technology.

In next week's developer diary (released every Wednesday), the team behind Hearts of Iron IV will go into detail regarding Hungary's new National Focus tree.

Increasing national focus on sugar content has led many influential experts and organisations, including Cancer Research and the UK Health Forum to back the introduction of a Sugar Tax and it was announced last year by the government that this would be introduced in 2018 for soft drinks.

In addition, target publications and blogs with a local, regional and national focus to vary where your company generates coverage, links and visibility in relevant markets.

National Charity A tax - exempt organization with a national focus in fundraising and grantmaking.

If you're an Australian Organic member or an Australian Certified Organic client you would have seen the invitations to networking events on 13 — 15 November in South Australia — part of our commitment to a national focus.

We have also seen that this approach of Betting Against the Public works particularly well in «big games» or «games of national focus.»

The team at SportsInsights studied how our basic sports marketplace indicators performed during this time of «national focus» on «March Madness.»

The team at SportsInsights decided to see how our basic sports marketplace indicators performed during this time of «national focus» on «March Madness.»

This paper looks at games played from 1981 - 1996 that have a national focus, specifically Monday and Playoff games.

While much of the national focus in recent years on concussions in sports has centered on football, the numbers show it's hardly the only sport with high rates of head injuries.