Sentences with phrase «policy levers for»

In addition to a review of the current state of research and practice in SEL for these three traditionally underserved student groups, this brief explores potential policy levers for using SEL to better prepare these student populations for success in school and life.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

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.

The market strategist sees «no levers left to pull» for a market that has been supported by factors such as a decade of ultra-easy money policy and, most recently, a big juicy corporate tax cut.

«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.

Where are the new levers of change for policy and business?

And while the upstate - downstate divide within the Senate is more apparent than in perhaps other years, Flanagan allies point out he can still claim credit for a range of policy wins for Republicans over the last two years in the Senate, the only lever of statewide power the GOP holds.

The key point is that new technology development isn't the lever; the lever is policy that allows for the implementation of existing technology.

• U.S. Department of Education's leadership and structure — trim programs and staffing; eliminate the Office of Civil Rights and transfer its functions to the Justice Department; restore the bully pulpit and reduce the use of regulation as the Secretary's principal lever for affecting state and local policy; and create collaborative relationship with relevant House and Senate leadership.

«American policymakers seldom view curriculum as a serious lever for change,» observes Ashley Berner, deputy director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Education.

«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.

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.

From a policy standpoint, the adoption of SEL standards, funding for teacher professional development, and the incorporation of school climate into measures of accountability are all potential levers (among many) to support empowerment efforts.

Education data represents a powerful lever for initiating policy that leads to meaningful school and district improvement.

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.

In my recent paper, I argue that enhancing high school policies could be one lever for policymakers.

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.

As long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for change.

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 princPolicy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective princpolicy levers available to states to promote effective principals.

These sessions focused on the Departments» joint policy statement, respective family engagement frameworks, and the ways in which systemic engagement practices can act as a lever for improving transition and alignment from cradle to career.

As for states: Through policy, accreditation and funding for principal training programs, and other levers, they have a major role to play in getting schools the leadership they need.

By asking how school policies and practices are affecting students» social and emotional development, SEL can be a powerful lever for school improvement.

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.

Using these levers, the Education Department can create incentives for states to adopt certain policies.

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.

With such a long and varied list of potentially serious obstacles and an increasingly tight fiscal environment, we're faced with a difficult policy question: what cost - effective levers can colleges employ for boosting graduation rates?

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.»

When grounded in agreed - on standards for teaching — such as the recently revised Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards — and developed in ways that overcome the challenges cited, evaluation can be an effective lever for state and local policy.

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.

The action plan provides an overview of key levers in ESSA to support the concept of a well - rounded and complete education, actionable policy points to engage and communicate with state and district leaders around ESSA, and strategies for developing a communications plan.

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.

Most of the levers for U.S. policy action are completely outside his control.

Well ‐ designed policy packages can help lever the opportunities for exploiting welfare, safety, and health co ‐ benefits.

In the search for planet levers to address climate change, we should look for ways to significantly cut emissions that don't require grand policy solutions, such as carbon taxes or global cap - and - trade schemes, or the approval of the U.S. Congress or the United Nations.

Among the policy implications are a role for efficiency standards, a limited impact for fuel tax, and the necessity of using a number of levers simultaneously to influence transport systems.

«The Innovator Database and Policy Finder build on the Roadmap by creating a one - stop shop for stakeholders interested in understanding food waste policy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sePolicy Finder build on the Roadmap by creating a one - stop shop for stakeholders interested in understanding food waste policy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sepolicy and innovation — two levers that have the power to make change across sectors.

This chapter concludes with a discussion of the relevant considerations for public policy, with particular emphasis on the policy levers most likely to influence paternal involvement, AOP signing, and child support.

She uses research, policy, programmatic, and fiscal levers to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families and the systems serving them.

By asking how school policies and practices are affecting students» social and emotional development, SEL can be a powerful lever for school improvement.

Policy levers available to influence the availability and affordability of contraception are important but are likely to fall short unless there is also a focus on the need for responsible behaviors, the elements of a good relationship, and the importance of entering parenthood with intentionality.

The political landscape can present a number of formidable challenges to knowing and acting on what policy levers to pull, with whom, for whom, and in what order.