Sentences with phrase «policy drives much»

In the current education ecosystem, policy drives much of the demand for PD.

The story of High Tech High Graduate School of Education (GSE) illustrates that state and federal policy drive much of the demand for teacher education.

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Michael Pettis, a professor of finance and economics at Peking University, is an expert in the Chinese economy, and he has argued for years that China's trade surplus with the United States and the rest of the world is driven by much stronger forces that the value of the Chinese currency or differences in tariff policy.

The answer is that Fed policy is the primary factor driving the returns of short - term bonds, meaning that they tend to hold up much better than long - term debt when the Fed is expected to keep rates low as was the case in 2013.

-- The BOJ may still ease policy, but it is unlikely to gain much by doing so in an environment where external geopolitical events are driving markets and expectations.

Much of this growth, Wood writes, will be driven not just by tax cuts but also low borrowing costs, restructured balance sheets and loose fiscal policy.

Since March 2009, the S&P 500 Index has had a total return of approximately 250 %, driven by two primary factors: First, super-easy global monetary policy in the wake of the banking crisis, which drove down returns on safe assets to the point where risky assets became a much more compelling proposition than is typical.

Greg Clark headed up such a unit between 2001 - 5, and it laid the ground for much of the social justice drive in present Party policy.

Boris Johnson, Michael Fallon, Liam Fox — and of course Theresa May - are going to have to drive British policy to a much greater extent than before.

This Afghan policy was very much influenced by «Pashtunistanism,» driven by idealistic and principled causes (i.e. supporting Pashtuns and Balochs» right to self - determination, not recognizing the Durand line, and most of all continuing to claim as Afghan land territory lost in the 1893 Durand agreement, parts of today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan).

Lib Dem delegates are expected to offload their frustrations over a series of coalition policies that they feel are being driven too much by Conservative dogma, including those on education and NHS reform.

He's as low key and policy driven as much as Collins is TV ready.

It asks: «Do they believe in top - down politically motivated targets or does Liz Kendall stand by her assertion that «many staff are disillusions and disempowered by the top - down, target - driven approach that has dominated much of the latest decade of health policy»?»

Science must drive public policy as much as possible, and I will continue to act on that belief.

Nutt seems an ideal role model for aspiring scientist - advocates, standing up for rational, practical, science - driven approaches to policy in place of the much more common moralistic, ideology - driven approach.

«The fact that it was unexpected means that the changes we're looking at, before and after, are really due to the policy and not some other development that would also affect how much people would want to drive,» Kreindler says.

Cohen and Walsh point out that it is state law which drives tenure policy and which frequently mandates much of the anachronistic step - and - lane pay schedule as well as the restrictions on teacher evaluation.

But with state policy driving the allocation of the lion's share of school funding, education financing across the country varies significantly among communities in terms of how much is spent, how funding is allocated, and where the money comes from.

The No Child Left Behind Act that drove much of the overall policy discussion became increasingly dysfunctional and was belatedly replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act.

As education experts Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter argue, school policies in recruitment, location, and transportation can either mitigate or drive charter school segregation.98 Some charters, for example, may be highly committed to diversity, but do not have much room to diversify because they are located in homogenous neighborhoods.

From where this publication sits, the gambit, as much driven by the arrogant desire of President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan to put their full stamp on federal education policy as the lack of movement by Congress on its reauthorization, is absolutely counterproductive to reform.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

That interest rates have fallen so much has driven many of the title insurers to seek avenues of diversification, because opportunities to originate policies because of refinancing will likely not be as big in the next ten years as it was in the last ten.

In reality, the claim would probably not drive the policy up anywhere near this much, but for the sake of argument, let's look at worst case scenarios.

Your insurance rates could be much higher — or lower — given factors such as the safety of your neighborhood, the security you have on your home and car, your credit score, your driving habits, and the deductible you have on your policies.

This isn't perfect because almost none of us can borrow at those rates, but if credit spreads don't vary much, movements in the schedule of rates, driven by expectations of monetary policy, affect business actions.

Thanks to Bethesda's media - shafting policies, it was in our interests to finish this quickly, but the wealth of side - objectives and incidental communiques / audio diaries drove us to much distraction.

However, this criticism doesn't detract as much as one might suspect from the role of current GCM results in driving policy.

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Certainly, the field that is lumped in under the 2 billion is much broader than the climate model development community and its policy - driven experiments, which I would guess amounts to less than 5 % of the total.

Policy - useful research requires much more robustness and engineering - style bound - setting than does pure curiosity / fame - driven research.

It seems a natural thing to do as CAGW alarmism has driven so much non productive over reactive policy.

I would suggest that, as a policy wonk, you're not as much interested in the pure findings of science as you are in how those findings can be used to drive policy.

If they do not, the more likely outcome is a drive that tries to do too much with technology policy.

Its forecasts, released every five to seven years, drive climate policy worldwide, so even the small change raised debate over how fast the planet is warming and how much time we have to stop it.

«Economics as much as energy policy are driving the markets,» he elaborated.

In this regard, contrary to much of the hand - wringing in the press, the deal - making that took place in the House and may still take place in the Senate for shares of free allowances is an example of the useful and important mechanism through which a cap - and - trade system provides the means for a political constituency of support and action to be assembled without reducing the policy's effectiveness or driving up its cost.

While government policy to diversify energy sources has driven much of this near - term growth, a sharp fall in technology costs has accelerated the deployment of renewables to the point where in some regions they now can compete with coal or gas without subsidies.

The USA and the world will be much better off if it steps back from the policies that have been driven by ideological beliefs.

That so much interest has fallen on what could be described as an anti-science conference packed with ideologically driven fake experts, and that this conference attracted influencers like the Mercers, shows the rocky road ahead for climate policy.

When I first read about Howard's speech, the admission of political expediency driving policy struck me as much as the familiarity with contrarian talking points and hollow understanding of the science.

It seemed that the present day was likely not much or very little outside the range of climate variability for the last 2000 years and that no government action or policy was required or would be useful with regard to postulated anthropogenic CO2 driven climate change.

Climate change continues to drive energy policy, despite the fact that there is no way to reconcile eradicating energy poverty in much of the world with reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Fourth and finally, it should not be forgotten that the much - lamented deal - making that took place in the House committee last week for shares of the allowances for various purposes was a good example of the useful, important, and fundamentally benign mechanism through which a cap - and - trade system provides the means for a political constituency of support and action to be assembled (without reducing the policy's effectiveness or driving up its cost).

Again, be sure to consider how much or how little you drive, what type of car you drive and how much protection you want when you compare the two New Jersey car policy options.

How much your rates rise depends on your carrier, age, policy, location, and driving history.

Several states already allow PAYD auto insurance policies, and many allow companies to track mileage, as well as other driving habits like hard braking and the time of day when driving takes place, to determine how much a driver should pay for insurance.

PAYD means that a vehicle's insurance premiums are based directly on how much it is driven during the policy term, providing additional savings when motorists reduce their annual mileage.

means that a vehicle's insurance premiums are based directly on how much it is driven during the policy term, providing additional savings when motorists reduce their annual mileage.