Sentences with phrase «other policy elites»

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

I think tests have very limited potential in guiding distant policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites in identifying with confidence which schools are good or bad, ought to be opened, expanded, or closed, and which programs are working or failing.

Not exact matches

Lifetime Builder ELITE also offers the potential to accumulate greater cash values over the life of the policy than other fixed - interest permanent insurance products.

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.

Media and policy elites are increasingly treating teachers union claims with the same skepticism that they used to apply only to other interest groups.

In other words, nonmajor foundations that share similar policy interests as their elite counterparts often pursue unique strategies to meet their objectives.

Lifetime Builder ELITE also offers the potential to accumulate greater cash values over the life of the policy than other fixed - interest permanent insurance products.

Other changes, like new upgrade policies for first class and premium class, are more of a mixed bag but seem geared toward differentiating elite benefits rather than removing perks.

Different loyalty programs have different policies when it comes to earning points and receiving elite benefits for stays that other people make.

He then went on to say that we should not swing so far the other way as to allow the scientific elite itself to control public policy.

Phil Anschutz, a fellow financier of climate science denial groups, is one of many elites who attends the Kochs» twice - annual strategy meetings, where millions of dollars are raised to influence politics through groups like the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, the Franklin Center, and the other members of the State Policy Network.