Sentences with phrase «policy focused strategy»

She leads the organization's state - driven public policy focused strategy development, which supports collaborative philanthropic responses to Michigan's most critical needs and leads over 300 member organizations toward deeper impact affecting over 300,000 Michigan residents.

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While there is a place for best price guarantees, most startups choose to focus on a price matching policy if they're trying to implement such a strategy.

«In this newly created role, Jeffrey will be responsible for Data Governance and Architecture firmwide, with a particular focus on our data and information strategy, controls, policy, commercialization and business intelligence,» the memo said.

The crown prince has also been focused on shifting the Saudi foreign policy strategy, and may have found an unlikely ally in neighbor Israel.

A few weeks ago, I discussed how investors seemed to overlook China's focused macro policy strategy, with its actions deliberate and purposeful.

Business Strategies and Free Trade: Focus on Corporate Adjustment, Policy Study 5, edited by Maureen Farrow and Alan M. Rugman.

«This strategy will identify gaps in existing policies and programs and propose evidence - based initiatives that will focus on the prevention and elimination of veteran homelessness,» Gauthier said in an email.

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm Amgen optimized $ 1.9 million in savings in 2016 by focusing on policy compliance, savings strategies and program satisfaction.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

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The purpose of this Planning Guide for national implementation is to help translate the aim, objectives and operational targets of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding into concrete, focused national strategy, policy and actioStrategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding into concrete, focused national strategy, policy and actiostrategy, policy and action plans.

Instead it suggests two points: first, policy - makers are increasingly concerned about the mushrooming of al - Qaeda - like groups across Syria, which implicates a scenario of long - term internal and cross-border instability; second, it is an attempt to deligitimise Western strategy in Syria by focusing on the openly violent, sectarian and fanatic elements.

Education, with a focus on outward perspectives which don't forsake Arab values, is consistently a prominent policy priority in the Gulf states» job - creation strategies.

He urged the NCA, to encourage public access by creating an enabling environment in the adoption of policies and strategies that focus not only on spurring connectivity, but on entrepreneurship and cross-border information flows.

Mr. Speaker, government's strategy to shift the focus of economic policy from taxation to production must necessarily come with greater need to broaden the tax base and ensure compliance.

Rather, their focus upon American domestic politics, the economy, immigration and perceived cultural fragmentation mean that, if anything, they appear to be a force encouraging a return to previous US policies of isolationism, a strategy of retreat from the world in order to preserve America as they want it to be.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

«Analysis of Tory party policy, carried out over the summer, convincingly demonstrates the Conservatives are shifting to a distinctly rightwing strategy, in both their chosen focus on issues and their solutions... Cameron clearly recognises some of the danger he faces in his repositioning.

A spokesperson for the Corbyn campaign said: «This week Jeremy will continue with his strategy of focusing on policy.

At the meeting, the shadow cabinet minister complained that radical suggestions put forward by his working groups had been «parked» and replaced with «cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and press strategy».

«Judging by her past strategy, today she is probably focused on shorting medical device manufacturers like Welch Allyn and defense contractors like Sikorsky that have been forced to lay off New Yorkers as a result of her disastrous policies.»

It's especially hard to see how a Downing Street policy unit staffed partly by civil servants can give Government strategy the drive and focus it needs.

Strategies are presented to accomplish this by expanding the availability of and access to immersive science - policy connection mechanisms, and through foci on communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.

That was consistent with a «health in all policies» strategy focusing on the targeted reforms, across City departments and agencies.

Instead, he wants to set up a European Political Strategy Centre, starting 1 January 2015, that will focus on economic and social issues, sustainable development, foreign policy, institutional policy, and communications, with a particular emphasis on foresight studies, the president told reporters here on 5 November.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

«Such exogenously driven political turnover may shorten democratic time horizons, inducing parties and their politicians to focus on short - run policies at the expense of important longer - run strategies,» he warns.

Lunch Table Discussions and Conversations with Experts is an open networking event that is focused on all aspects of stem cells and regenerative medicine, including science, business, policy, ethics, education, advocacy and commercialization strategies.

His current work as an AAAS S&T Policy fellow at the National Institute of Justice has focused on strategic planning and developing effective science communitcation strategies.

The Focus: Understanding the politics of food, taxes on junk food, marketing claims, revolving door of government and lobbyists, and effective strategies to create change in food policy and safety.

Quite simply, Samurai Warriors 4: Empires primarily focuses on you joining a faction while implementing different kinds of policies, strategies, and tactics prior to battle as you look to take control of all territories on the map.

Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

As a developmental psychologist trained in child development, prevention science, and social policy, Jones» research focuses on social and emotional learning (SEL) in childhood and adolescence and on creating and testing innovative intervention models and strategies designed to foster competencies that help children become successful.

His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level educational improvement strategies.

Now, as a member of the British Cabinet Office's Social Exclusion Task Force, he focuses on strategy and policy with regard to the socially excluded.

Work in urban areas is complex and warrants using data in an intelligent way to inform policies and strategies focused on how to improve student learning.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

In researching for this article to look at the government's standpoint I could not find any definitive policy with much of the funding strategy being focused on the building of new schools and maintenance of existing facilities.

Previously, she worked as a Policy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education pPolicy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education ppolicy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education policypolicy.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Measurement - driven reform expanded the role of assessment into the policy arena in two important ways: a) it focused attention on what students should learn (outcomes), and b) it made teaching toward the test a valued instructional strategy.

This report by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) focuses squarely on strategies for instructional improvement in American high schools.

Much of the conversation surrounding CBE though, focuses on high - level strategy and policy.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

Chris Daniels is a Project Director with TNTP, where he focuses on early literacy academic strategy with a consortium of districts in Tennessee and cross-LEA collaboration on staffing policies in Washington, DC.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

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Career advising and development is an increasingly prevalent topic in policy conversations, but too often only focuses on high school - level strategies.

SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.