Sentences with phrase «policy as a lever»

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Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

But on a more basic level, if communities and workers are being left behind, the question is: Why privilege trade over other policy levers — whether that means restricting it, as Trump wants to do, or expanding it, as many economists advocate?

Being disconnected from reality, these «products» have been more easily subjected to price manipulation than the underlying assets, and therefore have served as effective policy levers for central bankers to distort reality to achieve their objectives.

His preferred strategy was for the Fed to publish a detailed plan for shrinking its balance sheet, allow some time to gauge the market reaction, and then continue to use short term rates as the primary policy lever.

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.

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.

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.

Advocates and state officials should think about how the neglected policies could be used as a lever to improve teacher quality, experts say.

• 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.

By contrast, attention to the academic content — what we teach — is only now beginning to emerge as a serious lever in education policy.

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.

«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.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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.

As long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for changAs long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for changas states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for change.

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.»

Her teacher policies have been widely cited as a lever that enabled Rhee to produce an unprecedented turnaround in low DC students» scores.

These sessions focused on the Departments» joint policy statement, respective family engagement frameworks, and the ways in which systemic engagement practices can act as a lever for improving transition and alignment from cradle to career.

As for states: Through policy, accreditation and funding for principal training programs, and other levers, they have a major role to play in getting schools the leadership they need.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

Formed in 2013, this aligned action network brings together state chiefs and their education agency staff who are committed to activating key policy levers around licensure, program approval, and data as they transform educator preparation in their respective states.

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.

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.

When grounded in agreed - on standards for teaching — such as the recently revised Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards — and developed in ways that overcome the challenges cited, evaluation can be an effective lever for state and local policy.

The report identifies state and local levers, such as transcript analysis, credit policies and graduation requirements, to mitigate the challenge.

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.

The Fed did not have an over-leveraged economy, and so they invested in short - dated Treasuries, and adjusted Fed funds as their major policy lever.

I don't think all of the diplomacy and policy - making is truly meaningless — «pulling on disconnected levers,» as Rockefeller University's Jesse Ausubel has described most policies related to energy.

In the search for planet levers to address climate change, we should look for ways to significantly cut emissions that don't require grand policy solutions, such as carbon taxes or global cap - and - trade schemes, or the approval of the U.S. Congress or the United Nations.

Rob Bailey, a biofuels expert at Oxfam, questioned the accuracy of Schafer's claims and said it was critical to focus on eliminating biofuel subsidies in the US as it was one of the few policy levers in the hands of western governments.