Sentences with phrase «policy conversations»

The company is also vocal about its sustainability commitments in policy conversations, in support of more ambitious climate and energy regulations.

In education policy conversations, words like «equity» and «civil rights» are often used in an abstract sense, paired with vague notions of failing schools.

Our partners trust us to help them tell their stories, shape public and policy conversations about core issues, and develop strategies for sustained success.

It is time for teacher voices to ring loud and clear in the national policy conversation.

The industry and policy conversation on carbon removal is largely non-existent, which is the biggest threat to meeting our climate goals.

From the development of standards to methods of measurement to state accountability systems, one thing is for certain — policy conversations around SEL are picking up steam.

And we will support efforts to build teacher voice into policy conversations.

We have this tendency, if policy conversations make people feel uncomfortable, to sweep important issues under the rug.

The energy policy conversation is about more than oil and natural gas development.

Policy conversations hit a wall when skepticism about mainstream science dominates the debate.

That will be used as fodder to attack Common Core, teacher evaluations, charter schools, or whatever else you happen not to like that's prominent in today's education policy conversation.

That education process spans the spectrum, they've engaged in public policy conversations asking «what are the nuts and bolts that make up a great school?»

One of the really interesting policy conversations going on right now is that [Americans] are — still in 2017 — trying to figure how to truly have diverse schools.

«The final 2015 Guidelines are still being drafted, but because this is a matter of scope, we do not believe that the 2015 [Dietary Guidelines for America] are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability,» they write.

In 2015, Hammergren decided that it was time for McKesson to wade into broader policy conversations about the opioid epidemic.

Because of globalization and interdependence, the relationship between climate change, migration and security should become the «new normal» in international policy conversations, the panel said.

OCI seeks to change the education policy conversation from one where labor, public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children, to one where parents choose the best quality educational options for their child — no matter what form it comes in.

Any public policy conversation needs to recognize this and consider it carefully before actions create negative unintended consequences for America's small business job creators.

Budgets are more than just dollars, Cuomo told NY1 in January; they are a way to promote policy conversations.

Wildfires» first anniversaries were the most promising periods for tough policy conversations.

Acknowledging this influence and the lack of strong evidence supporting links between teacher effectiveness and traditional metrics that have driven teacher retention and compensation policies for decades, recent policy conversations have focused on new ways of measuring and rewarding effectiveness.

In this book some of the most respected minds in educational equity provide a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United States.

Dr. Diana Fishbein's and Dr. Neil Wollman's work represents a major service to the field of prevention science; ensuring prevention is at the forefront of many high - profile policy conversations.

Richard Lee Colvin discusses how teachers are impacting education policy conversations across the country, highlighting the work of Educators 4 Excellence...

Most analysts in the education policy conversation agree that teacher quality is the most important in - school variable shaping students» educational outcomes.

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

Then think about how it isn't a coincidence that the «reform» movement's goal is to divert the education policy conversation away from anything having to do with poverty and economic inequality.

CUEL's evaluation produced information on strategies and outcomes that has been used to scale up the PDI across Illinois and is informing policy conversations on how best to develop leaders as a cost - effective lever for improving preschool program quality through job - embedded professional development.

How can scientists better understand and contribute to Arctic policy conversations?

In late July, I lamented here the failure of the US Sentencing Commission to take a leading role in the post-Blakely policy conversation about the future of federal sentencing.

These initiatives have produced some insightful developments: innovation funds within agencies; the creation of the White House Data and Digital Cabinets; United States Digital Services, 18F, and the Presidential Innovation Fellows; evidence - based policy conversations; the use of prizes and challenges; small, critical changes in technology procurement processes; and the attraction and recruitment of new talent to government.

The paper also notes that Cambridge included questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 focus groups, though we will note this was also the time period in which Russia's seizing of Crimea became central to American foreign policy conversations.

We regularly provide resources and backgrounders to advocates in the field, as well as publish the Ounce Policy Conversations series, and distribute the Policy Digest and Policy Update.

Studies like MIHOPE and MIHOPE - Strong Start can help to inform high - level policy conversations, like the future reauthorization of MIECHV.

King and colleagues say more work is needed to understand how the media influence individual attitudes and persuasion and call for further studies to determine the impacts of media ownership on influencing national policy conversations.

This trend provides opportunities for advocacy organizations engaging in these larger public policy conversations to become live video broadcasters, and add their live video — and voices — to the public and media's news consumption.

We do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability

«As one of our finalist teams noted, «teachers are an untapped resource to reform professional development,» and through this challenge we are incorporating the expertise of our nation's educators into the broader policy conversation,» said Melinda George, president of NCTAF.

«That's why Planned Parenthood applauds the 11 senators on the committee for defeating this extreme anti-abortion amendment that would have significantly altered existing law on abortion and prohibited U.S. government officials from taking part in international policy conversations that touched on abortion as part of women's health care.

Delisle explains that one of her proudest accomplishments in her previous role as U.S. assistant secretary of education was bringing the voice of educators into policy conversations.

A critical role for those groups interested in supporting teacher leadership is, I think, helping classroom teachers learn how to operate in policy conversations and how to engage in tough - minded but respectful back - and - forth with policymakers, advocates, and the rest.

Having run the daily operations in New York to date, Evan and Sydney will turn their focus to expanding E4E's role in local and national education policy conversations.

And, of course, the issues Bert championed in them — free trade and less regulation — were central to the policy conversation in the 1980s, when I was an undergraduate here at the University of Melbourne.

This direct approach offers news consumers a more personal — and unedited — connection to these public policy conversations.

«The policy conversation goes on,» Cuomo told reporters at his annual Easter open house at the Executive Mansion in Albany.

It is therefore appropriate — from the Olympian vantage point a half century provides — not only to assess the Coleman findings and conclusions but also to consider how and where they have directed the policy conversation.

The study found no evidence that Head Start offers any additional benefits in improved vocabulary over other center - based preschools, suggesting that policy conversations should focus more on moving children from home - based care into formal care, rather than on moving children from one preschool program to another.