This workforce development conversation created an opportunity for organizations such as P21 to elevate «21st century readiness» in
policy conversations about redesigning education systems and individual learning experiences.
In 2011, the National Education Association passed a policy statement on teacher evaluation, aiming to influence
the policy conversation about revamped systems.
We do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are the appropriate vehicle for this important
policy conversation about sustainability
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.
Not exact matches
«Part of that is
conversation about policy, where are we going to go with gun safety, background checks, those are real
conversations we need to have.»
Spreading unexpected goodwill is like taking out an insurance
policy to make the
conversations about your brand positive.
When a customer tweeted the company asking for clarification
about a fee
policy, JetBlue not only immediately responded, but also had a local representative study this man's social media photo, then walk through the airport until he could be found for a follow - up
conversation.
«I'm hopeful these
policies will lead to a new collaborative
conversation about Canada's energy infrastructure on its merits and to a significant de-escalation of conflict worldwide
about the Alberta oilsands.»
However, «a number of participants reported that
about their
conversations with business leaders around the country and reported that trade
policy has come a concern going forward for that growth.»
So while the new regulations have kickstarted a
conversation about women in senior positions, the next challenge will be implementing these
policies in a meaningful way.
Just a few years ago,
conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and
policy were limited to a very specific community of academics and enthusiasts, and perhaps a marginal few in the circle of avant garde
policy - makers.
A new report from Canada's Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
about AI's implications for
policy makers found that, to be successful in implementing AI in government, a diversity in
conversation must happen.
Over the course of our
conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic
about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign -
policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.
Throughout that time, we have carried on an intellectual
conversation about Burkean conservatism, libertarianism, and public
policy.
I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an important and nuanced
conversation about nutrition, and workplace
policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»
Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new
conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the
policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»
Christians can legitimately disagree with one another on many issues of political and religious
policy, and we do engage in ongoing
conversation about these issues.
From overheard
conversations in restaurants during our journey (and people seemed to be talking
about the election everywhere outside of the DC area) at least some people, middle - class people who go to Ed's Steakhouse or Shakespeare's Coffee Shop, are convinced that Obama's reelection would unleash all the worst implications of the proposed
policies of the last four years.
Here in Dayton, I've developed a bit of a reputation for being both a political and theological «liberal,» and have thus found myself in some spirited
conversations about everything from Barack Obama's foreign
policy to the eternal destiny of Buddhists and Hindus and, well... Barack Obama himself.
The confectionery industry has been an economic bright spot in the overall economy, and continues to do its part to meet community needs and help address the ongoing
conversation about food and nutrition
policy, wellness and food safety in the United States.
Any
conversation about personal responsibility or public
policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.
The
policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those
conversations about it in the first place.
The prime minister also downplayed the extent to which his
conversations with the Murdochs were
about media
policy.
The former governor lamented the fact that the governor's race has devolved — literally — into little more than a pushing match, saying: «I think it's too bad that we're not using this moment to have a real
conversation about what the
policies should be to bring New York State back to what it used to be, the empire state.»
After Labour had largely remained quiet
about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new
conversation, and offered extensive apologies
about Labour's past
policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this
policy area.
After a 10 - minute
conversation about the whys and wherefores of council
policy, I established that the payments had been stopped because she'd taken in a lodger.
The message was
about elections and 2010, sure — but it was also a
conversation about what kinds of politics and
policies we want to see going forward.
But a repatriation of Ukip voters to the Tories (especially if it turns out that ex-Labour voters actually proved more loyal to Farage) will provoke a very difficult
conversation about future directions in
policy on Europe and immigration.
He was real glad that we got the health insurance for all of the children in the state, and he was very happy that we had the change in the reimbursement
policy for heath - care institutions, a process known as rebasing, and he told me
about that and, uh, he didn't say too much
about what he was going to be doing and oh, what was that — it was a nice
conversation — I also talked to Silda.
At
about the time that Labour's mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, tweets that Livingstone's comments were «appalling and inexcusable», Corbyn is engaged in an intense
conversation with the train inspector
about everything from rail
policy to the recent catch of a «record cod» to Tony Blair.
CHELSEA —
Conversation was less
about policy and more
about the past at Monday's debate between Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson, both vying to replace Speaker Christine Quinn on the City Council.
Self - proclaimed GOP «dirty trickster» Roger Stone has been helping Donald Trump prep for tonight's debate by drafting
policy memos on specific issues and engaging in general
conversations about the art of debating on TV.
«Prohibition of marijuana is a
policy that just hasn't worked, no matter how you look at it, and it's time to have an honest
conversation about what we should do next,» Krueger said in a statement.
Less on sloganeering, more
about having a passionate
conversation with the electorate and in terms of
policy.
In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said
about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the
conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of
policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).
She said: «We've had
conversations about foreign
policy and I've spoken to him
about the Falkland Islands and I've told him my clear and unequivocal view.
He said
policies would be the test of whether the Tories were «serious
about a
conversation or whether this is just window - dressing and presentation».
While
policy - level discussions
about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the
conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
«There's just so much that we don't know
about the deep sea, and we need that basic research before we form
policy — but we also urgently need
policy before this window of opportunity closes,» Van Dover said, «This is environmental management in a place where we've never conceived of it before, and we need to start the
conversation about how we're going to go
about it.»
But he cautioned that governments need concrete
policy proposals every bit as much as they need probing analyses, and that moving
conversations about energy subsidies rhetoric to action is a heavy lift in today's highly charged political arenas.
«To learn
about the working environment of the lab that I'd be joining, I had numerous
conversations with my prospective mentor, with other researchers who'd had previous interactions with him, and with current and former graduate students and postdocs who were working or had worked in his lab,» AAAS science
policy fellow Graber remembers.
It is time for a sustained public
conversation about media
policy, akin to the ones we have
about health care, the economy, defense and the budget.
Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and
policy communities for a three - day
conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.
«Basically we've both long thought that the cumulative emissions work is
policy - relevant... and the fact that negotiators are squealing means we're probably right
about that,» Frame said in an email
conversation.
Thus far, much of the
conversation about postdocs and their roles in the scientific workforce has been enmeshed in wider discussions of biomedical research
policy [9,10].
Remember that honesty is the best
policy, and posting truthful information
about yourself will show the other users you want to engage in a meaningful
conversation, meet new people and hopefully find your perfect match.
«Too often, students are cut out of
conversations about school
policies and culture.
This poll may shine a light on the situation in regards to the Common Core specifically, but my guess is that the same pattern applies to
conversations about teacher tenure, school choice, and other education
policies.
After a discussion of opposition to Betsy DeVos, EdNext's Paul Peterson joined the
conversation about school finance along with Linda Darling - Hammond of the Learning
Policy Institute and Susan Ferriss of the Center for Public Integrity.
Moreover, in
conversations with reporters, Secretary Bell publicly acknowledged — for the first time since February 1981 when he withdrew the proposed Lau rules — that the
policy change also applies to
about 500 school districts that had negotiated compliance agreements requiring native - language instruction based on the «Lau remedies.»