Sentences with phrase «policy makers who»

The loss and bailout is not so much a black eye for Fannie as it is for Congress and policy makers who for more than nine years have failed to determine the futures of Fannie and Freddie Mac.
Policy makers who want to eliminate or limit the MID say it costs the government a lot of money in the form of reduced tax revenue.
This information is valuable for policy makers who need to identify education policy priorities, schools that need to reform curricular and extracurricular practices, and parents who need to adjust their home learning environments and parenting practices.»
Researchers and policy makers who focus on biological fathers have often overlooked father figures.
At the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), we build bridges between the research community, practitioners and policy makers who share the goal of preventing violence and antisocial behavior and promoting positive youth development by putting the best that we know from research into practice.
By engaging in meaningful conversation, the goal of this session is to incite a broadening and deepening of our thinking and practice as early childhood teachers, leaders, and policy makers who shape the educational landscape for all children.
«We need to think about these things in more holistic way, not just thinking as policy makers in a health care area but policy makers who are committed to social justice and sustainability,» he said.
It is politicians and policy makers who have failed to organize a proper global climate control agency, have not articulates a clear strategic vision and whose cap - and - trade policy seems dubious at best.
Around 200 scientists have gathered for the meeting in Exeter, UK, to thrash out the risks that climate change poses to the world and feed this information to the policy makers who must decide what to do about it.
scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm, thus raising the political stakes for policy makers who provide funds for more science research to feed more alarm to increase the political stakes.
Presenting the New Policies scenarios — including its unrealistic assumptions on renewable energy — as the reference scenario inevitably affects policy makers who will base their measures and policy designs on the WEO.
(08/27/2013) Environmental activists are petitioning the World Meteorological Organization (WHO) to start naming storms after policy makers who deny human's role in driving climate change.
These are the real life, unintended consequences of budgetary, liability - shy policy makers who are more likely attorneys or CPAs than experienced animal handlers / behaviorists.
In South Korea, we are urging the national government to commit to a phase - out of dog meat farming, and working with policy makers who are in favour of reform.
Quoting policy makers who «express near hostility to teacher education schools,» the article called for new programs in teacher preparation to address the projected teacher shortage and concerns of quality.
Among all the parents, teachers, and policy makers who work hard to improve education, educators in leadership positions are uniquely well positioned to ensure the necessary synergy.
It is important and relevant, not only for aspiring and practicing teachers, but also for school leaders and policy makers who need to know what great teaching looks like and what it is built upon.
Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.
We see charter schools throughout the state of Utah as independent public schools governed by their approved charters and supported by families, communities and policy makers who recognize the importance of innovation, autonomy and choice in education.
In addition, Littman traces the relationship to no - nothing policy makers who have allowed scarce public resources to be squandered on the make - a-fast-buck industry that has been the foundation of Malloy's education reform effort.
While this study provides one useful data point for policy makers who are considering introducing or expanding educational choice in their states, policy makers should also consider information generated by studies that have already measured the impact of educational choice on segregation.
Policy makers who must understand assessments in order to create appropriate and effective policy and make solid funding decisions.
Policy makers who have acknowledged flaws in the current school report cards are hopeful the General Assembly will settle on an accountability system that will adequately represent annual school performance.
Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»
In states and districts across the country, policy makers who understand this recognize the value of Board - certified teachers by rewarding them for voluntarily pursuing teaching's highest credential.
In an Arizona Capitol Times op - ed, Laczko - Kerr and Association President and CEO Eileen Sigmund explain why the lack of transparent data on accelerated eighth - grade math students creates big hurdles for policy makers who look to advance policies that will drive academic excellence.
These policy makers who continuously fail and push «continuous change, and continuous improvement» are never held accountable for their failed policies.
Naace is a community of educators, technologists and policy makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education.
The multi-disciplinary membership of SPR is international and includes scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who value the conduct and dissemination of prevention science worldwide..
State and local policy makers who cave to union demands and block the growth of charters aren't doing traditional public school students any favors.
A new policy brief published by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) examines the emergence of ESA policies and makes recommendations for policy makers who are considering adopting or expanding these programs.
State education policy makers who were randomly exposed to data that revealed the teacher evaluation policy preference of the general public were not significantly more likely to align with the general public's teacher evaluation policy position.
Despite an overwhelming majority of educators and policy makers who see creative problem solving skills as critical for students success in this age of automation, many believe that current practices and policies stymie their ability to teach these critical skills.
It offers parents help in figuring out what language and literacy experiences to look for in preschools and child care; what to look for in initial reading instruction in kindergarten and the early grades; what to ask school boards, principals, elected officials, and other policy makers who make decisions regarding early reading instruction; and whether their child is making progress in related skills and early reading.
But this also assumes that teachers in the classroom aren't themselves experts, an idea often exacerbated by policy makers who strip their policies of ongoing teacher input.
About Naace Naace is the ICT Association - a community of educators, technologists and policy makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education.
Going forward, policy makers who care about their low - income high achievers should take full advantage of their newfound authority under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to ensure that their schools have ample incentives to educate those children, and all children, to the max.
Their study «provides further evidence to policy makers who are interested in aligning the social welfare objective of improving workers health and wellbeing with the need to make the business case to employers.»
He said the report will be shared with policy makers who next meet in Paris in 2015.
Lead researcher Dr Erika Berenguer from Lancaster University said: «The impacts of fire and logging in tropical forests have always been largely overlooked by both the scientific community and policy makers who are primarily concerned with deforestation.
«When local farmers take responsibility for their own livelihood no one gets blamed for caring for the lives that are wrecked by reckless ideas usually formulated by policy makers who have little or no experience of local circumstances,» he added.
Policy makers who wish to achieve clinically important improvements in maternity care, particularly around normalising and humanising birth, and preventing preterm birth should consider midwife - led continuity models of care and consider how financing of midwife - led services can be reviewed to support this.
However, they quickly became an embarrassment for the company as they provided a route for Nestlé to apologise to policy makers who had been misrepresented as endorsing the company's practices.
«Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages,» published by Cambridge University Press, contains important information for those interested in divorce and its repercussions and for policy makers who determine family and divorce law.
The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit presents the singular opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors to meet the payers, providers and policy makers who are changing how healthcare is delivered.
And what's important there is, first, that the bubble is identified by a set of experts — a set of policy makers who are focused on this issues — and, secondly, once the recommendations are made it's a broader political decision, not just the central banking making the decision; it's a broader decision made by policy makers and legislators about what to do about the problem.
Policy makers who seek quick fixes and could care less about long - term consequences undoubtedly encourage investors to embrace the same value system.
That's why we produced How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price: Top 10 Takeaways From the Architects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax — a new compendium of insider tips for policy makers who may be considering a carbon pricing program.
«And yet during the course of this week, we've had other policy makers who have been implying something [in the] reverse.
What we're seeing is a fairly conventional policy maker who is being led by fairly weak data to reasonably conclude that we don't need to raise rates very quickly, but also to conclude that we should start this process sooner rather than later.
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