Sentences with phrase «national policy consensus»

The expert panel made a call for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school library / learning commons, and for provincial ministries of education to provide sustainable funding for such a model.

Citing the research, and the exciting work being done by school library practitioners in realizing the vision of the new school library learning commons, the expert panel recommended that «the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) commission a pan-Canadian assessment engaging the full range of stakeholders, to bring forward a clear and prescriptive set of directives to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school libraries / learning commons to maximize their contribution to the K - 12 experience and its learning outcomes.»

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One of the genuinely unique policy ideas Donald Trump has brought to the national stage is a deep skepticism of the once - bipartisan consensus on free trade.

We will have a better immigration policy when we have a national consensus — expressed through elections — about what that better immigration policy should look like.

The school's continuing students in a drama show called for national consensus on the successful implementation of the free SHS policy.

Government must take steps to galvanize consensus around other issues of national importance, especially with respect to political governance nation - building matters, and should initiate a process of involving citizens whose experience, insight and expertise will enhance economic policy management and national governance.

«If the government is genuinely concerned to build a national consensus on counter-terrorism policy, it should drop this ill - conceived proposal and work with us and others to identify better ways of ensuring terrorism suspects are successfully prosecuted,» Mr Dismore added.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

«Not surprisingly, there is a consensus among policy makers that increases in the supply of a highly skilled workforce will increase the productivity of the preexisting workforce, and lead to a substantial increase in national wealth.»

The consensus statement calls for national sport funders and policy organisations to take the lead in ensuring that oral health is regularly assessed, especially pre-season, to allow for personalisation of prevention plans and early treatment of any disease.

We support the consensus - based, bipartisan energy code provision contained in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which strengthens national model codes that are already certified, adopted and in - use by 44 states and several localities around the U.S.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

Educators, opinion leaders, and political officials have reached «a near consensus» about the need for change, Scott D. Thomson, the executive secretary of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration, which published the book, writes in its preface.

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

We have a major challenge ahead of us to reverse these policy mistakes and I hope that this can be a «wake up» call for the need to rebuild the leadership consensus that once made Texas the national leader in education reform.

Members of the National Forum have struggled with the many nuances of ability grouping and have come to consensus on a statement of policy.

The greatest threat to America's national security now is the lock - step, consensus federal «scientific - technological elite» that former President Eisenhower warned in 1961 might one day take control of public policy:

Among awards and recognition, he has been a Visiting Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Google Science Communication Fellow, and a member of the U.S. National Academies consensus study committee on «The Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda.»

In other words, the idea that the scientific consensus is equivalent to the configuration of supranational and national political institutions and their respective policies is «ideological».

However, that target needs to be translated into effective policies at national levels and that will require solid support among electorates who do not understand how solid the underlying scientific consensus is.

In particular, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a major consensus study on this issue, entitled Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (1991,1992).

For the commercial real estate industry to be truly effective in Washington, cross-organizational consensus and coordination among various national real estate trade associations around shared policy initiatives and priorities is vital.