Sentences with phrase «policy challenges»

Fifty education analysts had a unique opportunity recently to bridge the gap between rigorous data analysis and key policy challenges faced by education agencies.
Original doctoral research conducted by students focuses on a public health policy challenge of interest with important ethical questions.
Through annual giving, members of this group foster community engagement in some of the most pressing public policy challenges while interacting with world leaders, national decision - makers and leading researchers.
These kinds of solutions don't surprise me, because states have always been more effective at addressing policy challenges in our schools.
The results reveal that the largest policy challenge for the Greek authorities will be the energy usage of the Greek industry since it is robust towards the adoption of renewable energy sources.
It might be fraught with policy challenges, but is it feasible to do it technically?
The most pressing policy challenge is to keep down the cost of housing.
In the real world, policy challenges posed by new technologies are less dramatic, but only slightly less daunting.
The authors apply their expertise to a range of issues from international testing to policy challenges related to curriculum on the state and national levels.
For instance, radical change in the way we understand and manage state assets could help tackle some pressing social and economic policy challenges.
Since then, we have faced other policy challenges.
A small fee would also mitigate the obvious policy challenge of leakage at the city or county level.
For the past seven years, the government's growth and jobs strategy has been based entirely on events and policy challenges beyond its control.
Through our advocacy efforts and investments, we seek innovative solutions to agricultural policy challenges and we work to foster the political will and public support to solve them.
No national policy challenge will get more than a few minutes of attention.
Instead of providing recommendations, the white paper poses policy challenges around critical questions, including teacher preparation, clinical preparation, and adult learning.
Climate change has become one of the world's foremost policy challenges.
Their leadership is vital for overcoming policy challenges, shifting global markets, and inspiring many more companies to reap the economic benefits of renewable electricity.
The attitudes and training of service providers pose the final policy challenge.
How best to design incentives for public organizations such as schools is a fundamental public policy challenge.
At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.
Ralph Müller - Eiselt is an expert in education policy and governance and heads the Bertelsmann Foundation's taskforce on policy challenges and opportunities in a digitalized world.
The fact that neither Elise Stefanik, or Matt Doheny has anything approaching an understanding of the foreign policy challenges facing our Country, is a source of real concern.
He noted, «there are still many policy challenges ahead, including alarmist climate change policies, the stifling of public charter schools, the spend - and - tax habit of state and local officials, weak private property rights protections, and local government intrusion disguised as «smart growth» policies.»
Both these measures limit the ability of the teaching profession to compete in the graduate labour market, indicating the pattern of recruitment and retention difficulties is likely to remain a key education policy challenge in the years to come.
Both industry at large and energy providers are currently confronted with serious energy policy challenges in Europe: The EU's climate and energy goals stipulate a 40 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030, which poses almost unsolvable problems for energy - intensive industries.
Federal and state policymakers are often working on similar policy challenges from different vantage points.
The Guide has the potential to assist the APS in overcoming the significant policy challenges that exist in relation to Indigenous issues.
Since its founding in 1863, the NAS taps «the energy and intellect of the nation's critical thinkers» to provide nonpartisan, evidence - based guidance to decision makers in addressing policy challenges.
This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Hilton Ballroom 4 Invited Session: Policy challenges affecting clinical integration of next - generation sequencing: Advancing toward resolution Moderators: Mary A. Majumder, Baylor College of Medicine; and Robert Cook - Deegan, Duke University
It's outrageous to sacrifice a chance to make progress on the biggest single policy challenge merely to increase the reelection chances of one Senator.
It will be followed at 10 a.m. by a keynote address by Mandla S. Makhanya, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa who will examine policy challenges facing governments and institutions in this field.
Keynote: How Business Executives Succeed When Facing Public Policy Challenges Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Transportation Norman Mineta will offer examples from his vast reservoir of experience as to how business executives can ensure their views are properly represented in the government decision - making process.
The 2012 review analyses the energy - policy challenges currently facing the Slovak Republic, and provides sectoral studies and recommendations for further policy improvements.
When the primary policy challenge for central banks was establishing credibility that the printing press was under control, it was appropriate for them to jealously guard their independence.
At a Labour fringe event, the shadow digital minister Liam Byrne was joined by shadow treasury minister Peter Dowd and a panel of experts to discuss «the greatest policy challenge of our time» - legislating for the self - employed.
This publication is part of a briefing kit that highlights our state's most pressing long - term policy challenges in 11 key areas:
The reason we lost is, and lost it so badly, was because in 2010 we discarded New Labour rather than revitalising it and re-energising it and making it relevant for the new times, the new policy challenges that we face.
In a broad sense, Australia and China face similar health policy challenges despite the differences between the two countries.
That gives the National Energy Administration, the governmental commission in China that particularly deals with energy issues, some serious policy challenges.
Not only do the characteristics of these two groups diverge considerably, but each one introduces fundamentally different policy challenges.
It should be clear to all political parties that, after 2015, there will be little in the way of «surpluses» for the federal government to deal with critical policy challenges.
The problem with these three proposals is they don't focus on the core policy challenge, which is to ensure middle and upper - middle income earners who aren't saving enough on their own will have something to live on when they retire.
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