Sentences with phrase «of policy levers»

«This group will examine the broad range of policy levers and factors that affect supply and demand of housing, the issue of affordability, and the stability of the housing market,» said Morneau to the packed room.
To achieve the required improvements within the education system, we often see the use of policy levers to try and affect change, such as the Pupil Premium.
In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.
«There are lots of policy levers, and we are able to look at the consequences of these policies.»

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Just in terms of the economics, European nations have given up one of their main levers in responding to crises (monetary policy), without getting any of the transfers that fiscal union would have brought.
In addition to pulling the levers of British monetary policy, Carney will have to remake the Bank of England's ossified culture.
While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.
Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the B.C. NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.
Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.
Through the alchemy of financial engineering, gold has become an index, a policy lever to transmit information.
Today the story is that Emerging Markets are just the levered beneficiaries or victims of Fed monetary policy, no different than anyone else.
The market strategist sees «no levers left to pull» for a market that has been supported by factors such as a decade of ultra-easy money policy and, most recently, a big juicy corporate tax cut.
«A globally competitive company tax rate is one of the most direct and effective economy - wide policy levers we have at hand for boosting investment,» the council says in its submission to the hearing.
Where are the new levers of change for policy and business?
Trump insists on treating Putin as a potential partner but doesn't really use the levers of policy — diplomatic agreements, military deployments, and the like — to try to make this vision a reality.
And while the upstate - downstate divide within the Senate is more apparent than in perhaps other years, Flanagan allies point out he can still claim credit for a range of policy wins for Republicans over the last two years in the Senate, the only lever of statewide power the GOP holds.
The GOP also hopes to increase its share of the nation's state legislative chambers — potentially increasing its foothold on the levers of power to set policy.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has quickly become one of President Donald Trump's leading opponents, using the levers of his office to litigate against Trump's policies, and has put New York at the forefront of efforts to resist the new Republican administration's agenda.
I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.
EdMiliband's whole leadership style was premised on the tactical exploitation of this and that issue, on scraping back to power in a multi-party world without ever trying to resolve the larger issues or achieve genuinely popular policies that might compromise a future Labour government's grip on the levers of power.
He said «renewing a millionaires» tax this year» is a policy priority that has a much stronger chance without Republicans holding one of the state's levers of power.
The key point is that new technology development isn't the lever; the lever is policy that allows for the implementation of existing technology.
A closer investigation of the impact of training by race / ethnicity may provide insight into differences in R01 award probability and perhaps provide a policy lever for diversifying the scientific workforce.
A conceptual failure lies at the heart of ed reform's underperformance: the mistaken assumption that education policy, not classroom practice, is the most important lever to pull to drive enduring improvement.
• U.S. Department of Education's leadership and structure — trim programs and staffing; eliminate the Office of Civil Rights and transfer its functions to the Justice Department; restore the bully pulpit and reduce the use of regulation as the Secretary's principal lever for affecting state and local policy; and create collaborative relationship with relevant House and Senate leadership.
Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.
«American policymakers seldom view curriculum as a serious lever for change,» observes Ashley Berner, deputy director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Education.
However, it is clear that moving from a centralized school system focused on stability to an innovation - minded system of autonomous schools requires more than pulling a few policy levers.
«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.
From a policy standpoint, the adoption of SEL standards, funding for teacher professional development, and the incorporation of school climate into measures of accountability are all potential levers (among many) to support empowerment efforts.
In general, we see policy researchers concerned with broad reforms involving standards, assessments, reorganization, governance, and the like; literacy is simply one of the subjects, and standards and assessment are two of the «tools» or levers of reform they study.
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One year on (2014), the NCC presented to Minister Boles - «Government could also draw upon other policy levers such as Ofsted and quality assurance frameworks to stimulate the careers marketplace in order to reduce complexity and transactional costs, build its capacity, and assure the quality of services in this market.»
Each of the districts featured has redefined its focus on assessment and accountability — away from an externally imposed burden to a valuable policy lever for redefining roles, garnering critical support for essential work, and fostering collective ownership on the part of all adults for student and organizational learning.
When the democratic levers of policy - making aren't effective at representing broad constituencies» interests, Meaningful Student Involvement can embrace diverse opinions.
This paper examines the various policy and implementation levers available to inject affirmative solutions into the charter school landscape, along with some important guiding principles that serve as a backdrop to the development of policy and programs.
This meant that many of the «policy levers» used to help poorer pupils achieve would fail, as family background continued to dominate, she said.
With such a long and varied list of potentially serious obstacles and an increasingly tight fiscal environment, we're faced with a difficult policy question: what cost - effective levers can colleges employ for boosting graduation rates?
«The tables have become less a way of giving parents the information they want and more an arms - length policy lever by which successive governments have sought to influence the decisions heads take about how to run their schools,» said United Learning's chief executive, Jon Coles.
They contend that educational policies in LAUSD will need to recognize the district's political realities and suggest five policy levers to be built around networks of schools.
Regarding the legislators noted in the article in Education Week, the opening sentence says plenty, «Seeking more allies for his school improvement agenda, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today asked a select group of state legislators to keep «pushing very, very hard» on the policy levers that he and President Barack Obama have made a top priority.»
Raise questions or complications to the exercise of standards, high stakes accountability testing, and their utility as policy levers and the entire exercise gets a lot less laudatory.
In fact, the interesting thing is most of the policymakers, policy levers that I'm talking about here are pretty cost neutral.
The policy levers states use to support and sustain the recruitment and development of school leaders include:
Improving the skill set of new teachers is a potentially important policy lever to increase student achievement.
The list of finalists is supposed to reflect U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's promise that he would set a very high bar for this education - reform competition, which has become one of the Obama administration's most high - profile policy levers.
The action plan provides an overview of key levers in ESSA to support the concept of a well - rounded and complete education, actionable policy points to engage and communicate with state and district leaders around ESSA, and strategies for developing a communications plan.
From the School Board to the State House, there are policy and budget levers at every level of government.
They think they can control an entire economy through the weak policy lever of affecting the views of people have for calculating what interest rates they should use to capitalize the values of assets.
Which other specific policy levers — mortgage lending rules, increased access to the Home Buyers» Plan, taxes or restrictions on real estate investments by foreigners — is your government considering using in order to help average Canadians achieve their dream of home ownership?
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