Sentences with phrase «policy lever»

The purchasing power of Medicaid can be a significant policy lever for promoting early childhood home visiting program quality and improving maternal and child health outcomes.

I am increasingly of the view that the only strategy left is one of full - spectrum prioritization, where pretty much every political and policy lever, every business decision, every economic strategy is put at the service of climate mitigation and resilience.

They think they can control an entire economy through the weak policy lever of affecting the views of people have for calculating what interest rates they should use to capitalize the values of assets.

The Fed did not have an over-leveraged economy, and so they invested in short - dated Treasuries, and adjusted Fed funds as their major policy lever.

Improving the skill set of new teachers is a potentially important policy lever to increase student achievement.

«The tables have become less a way of giving parents the information they want and more an arms - length policy lever by which successive governments have sought to influence the decisions heads take about how to run their schools,» said United Learning's chief executive, Jon Coles.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

There remains, however, another important policy lever that has been overlooked: investment in school leadership quality and stability.

Each of the districts featured has redefined its focus on assessment and accountability — away from an externally imposed burden to a valuable policy lever for redefining roles, garnering critical support for essential work, and fostering collective ownership on the part of all adults for student and organizational learning.

These have their place but no «policy lever» works effectively when pushed to extremes.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

A closer investigation of the impact of training by race / ethnicity may provide insight into differences in R01 award probability and perhaps provide a policy lever for diversifying the scientific workforce.

Assistance with the grants submission and resubmission process may provide a policy lever for diversifying the scientific workforce.

In this piece, we will discuss the investment policy lever in more detail.

His preferred strategy was for the Fed to publish a detailed plan for shrinking its balance sheet, allow some time to gauge the market reaction, and then continue to use short term rates as the primary policy lever.

Through the alchemy of financial engineering, gold has become an index, a policy lever to transmit information.

And if it didn't, then maybe we needed some additional policy lever, like wage and price controls.

But on a more basic level, if communities and workers are being left behind, the question is: Why privilege trade over other policy levers — whether that means restricting it, as Trump wants to do, or expanding it, as many economists advocate?

Being disconnected from reality, these «products» have been more easily subjected to price manipulation than the underlying assets, and therefore have served as effective policy levers for central bankers to distort reality to achieve their objectives.

But truth be told, policy levers on overall productivity have proven elusive.

«A globally competitive company tax rate is one of the most direct and effective economy - wide policy levers we have at hand for boosting investment,» the council says in its submission to the hearing.

States use different policy levers to decide how to sentence people, Shannon said.

«Worldwide, schooling and access to education remain the most powerful policy levers for improving children's life chances.»

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

However, it is clear that moving from a centralized school system focused on stability to an innovation - minded system of autonomous schools requires more than pulling a few policy levers.

«There are lots of policy levers, and we are able to look at the consequences of these policies.»

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Luckily we have policy levers to keep students in school and in class.

The trick for arts advocates is to figure which policy levers to pull that will actually increase funding for art classes and allow more children to take them.

Dr. Paul Manna, a recognized scholar of education and author of the new Wallace Foundation Report, Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective principals.

One year on (2014), the NCC presented to Minister Boles - «Government could also draw upon other policy levers such as Ofsted and quality assurance frameworks to stimulate the careers marketplace in order to reduce complexity and transactional costs, build its capacity, and assure the quality of services in this market.»

It is imperative that lawmakers use these policy levers to counter immigration enforcement and help all students thrive.

This quarter's content focuses on policy levers to effect change, including policy at the school district, state and regional levels:

Formed in 2013, this aligned action network brings together state chiefs and their education agency staff who are committed to activating key policy levers around licensure, program approval, and data as they transform educator preparation in their respective states.

This discussion paper is a companion piece to the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialog (April 2011) and describes policy levers states can use to adopt and implement the new standards.

In 2017, state policy makers — particularly state legislators and state education agencies — placed great emphasis on key policy levers affecting educator preparation.

This meant that many of the «policy levers» used to help poorer pupils achieve would fail, as family background continued to dominate, she said.

One recurring theme from my conversations with state legislators this year was that they are unfamiliar with the major state policy levers pertaining to educator preparation — accreditation, licensure, and program approval.

These speakers discussed gap - closing strategies, policy levers to support effective practices, and directions the education field will (and should) take in the future.

Further, these experts will explore State Board authority and other policy levers to advance leadership, with specific lessons from Tennessee and Missouri.

They contend that educational policies in LAUSD will need to recognize the district's political realities and suggest five policy levers to be built around networks of schools.

Regarding the legislators noted in the article in Education Week, the opening sentence says plenty, «Seeking more allies for his school improvement agenda, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today asked a select group of state legislators to keep «pushing very, very hard» on the policy levers that he and President Barack Obama have made a top priority.»

«We hope to identify some policy levers that can be used to improve the schools.»

Raise questions or complications to the exercise of standards, high stakes accountability testing, and their utility as policy levers and the entire exercise gets a lot less laudatory.

In fact, the interesting thing is most of the policymakers, policy levers that I'm talking about here are pretty cost neutral.

The policy levers states use to support and sustain the recruitment and development of school leaders include:

Social and Emotional Skills for Life and Career: Policy Levers that Focus on the Whole Child.

The list of finalists is supposed to reflect U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's promise that he would set a very high bar for this education - reform competition, which has become one of the Obama administration's most high - profile policy levers.

To achieve the required improvements within the education system, we often see the use of policy levers to try and affect change, such as the Pupil Premium.