Sentences with phrase «policy papers focusing»

Empire Ideas is a series of policy papers focusing on topics of concern to local governments.

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This makes sense, since Ross and Navarro were the co-authors of an important policy paper the Trump campaign put out during the election season that mostly focused on trade issues.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and trade adviser Peter Navarro were the co-authors of an important policy paper the Trump campaign put out during the election season that mostly focused on trade issues.

What with the Advisory Council on Growth's paper on skills, and the Expert Panel on Youth Employment wrapping up, public policy is suddenly back to a focus on skills — and in particular what skills youth should have.

Additionally, Fed Governor John C. Williams of San Francisco recently published a paper suggesting a shifting focus from monetary policy to fiscal policy and an emphasis on economic growth and a higher inflation target.

Most of the papers and sports websites have focused on his comments about the Gunners not being able to beat our big Premier League rivals when it comes to spending power and his suggestions that the club's youth policy combined with an ultra careful and disciplined transfer policy will continue to be the Arsenal way.

In our Promoting Strong Couple Relationships paper we considered a range of options for how the Coalition Government might use the promotion of strong couple relationships in its policy development, thus enabling a shift away from public services focused solely or primarily on the mother and child.

The first policy paper — to be launched on March 17 — will focus on parliamentary strengthening.

The Department for Health would also be turned into the Department for Public Health, in a policy paper which focuses on public health outcomes.

Espaillat's campaign is announcing a series of policy papers in an attempt to separate itself in a race that has focused on political allegiances, polls, and fundraising.

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

«This paper is a transparent effort to take the focus off the actual scientific debate and instead engage in race baiting, class baiting and other sociological devices to win a science argument,» said James Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.

This paper focuses specifically on those theories most directly applicable to understanding how policy change happens or how specific advocacy tactics play out.

Together, we created a series of recommendations outlined in a new policy paper, «None of the Above: A New Approach to Testing and Assessment,» focused on four key areas for schools, districts, and state policymakers.

Second, as Patrick McGuinn pointed out in a 2010 American Enterprise Institute paper, Race to the Top «shifted the focus of federal education policy from the [state] laggards to the leaders.»

Very few of those differences had anything to do with teachers» paper credentials, yet that's the only thing that state and local policies focused on.

The institute published a policy paper entitled «Charter Schools As Nation Builders: Democracy Prep And Civic Education,» which highlights our focus on both abstract citizenship and operational citizenship.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

The Coalition focused its policy papers on four areas: education funding campaign lessons, school finance reform, using measures beyond testing to evaluate schools, and reducing chronic absenteeism.

Webinar Recording: Bridging the Gap Between Afterschool and Workforce This webinar focused on two new papers: Afterschool and Workforce: Opportunities for System - Level Alignment, a white paper released by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and Building Workforce Skills in Afterschool, an issue brief released by Afterschool Alliance.

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.

The paper concludes that while vocational education plays an important role for non-college graduates, policy should focus on encouraging depth rather than breadth in vocational course - taking.

The Hamilton Project released a new strategy paper and three new policy proposals by outside experts focusing on the use of incentives in education, opportunities for organizational changes to improve performance, and a new approach to accountability for teachers and students.

This webinar focused on two new papers: Afterschool and Workforce: Opportunities for System - Level Alignment, released by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and Building Workforce Skills in Afterschool, released by Afterschool Alliance.

Promoting Effective Teaching that Improves Learning lists resources from the CEELO BUILD paper Sharpening the Focus: State Policies that Promote Effective Teaching that Improves Learning which encourages state policymakers and their partners to critically review professional development and accountability policies, offers guidance on policy implementation, and makes recommendations for the «powerful and few» core state policies that can improve teaching and learning for all young cPolicies that Promote Effective Teaching that Improves Learning which encourages state policymakers and their partners to critically review professional development and accountability policies, offers guidance on policy implementation, and makes recommendations for the «powerful and few» core state policies that can improve teaching and learning for all young cpolicies, offers guidance on policy implementation, and makes recommendations for the «powerful and few» core state policies that can improve teaching and learning for all young cpolicies that can improve teaching and learning for all young children.

119 no. 1) issue of the American Journal of Education focuses on the role of social networks in educational change, and offers a collection of papers from forefront researchers on this topic that may serve as an introduction of the topic to a wide range of interested educators, policy - makers, and researchers.

However, motivated by the principles that fueled both Massachusetts» cap and this paper — making tangible progress in public education, particularly for lower - income and minority American students — a renewed national focus on education policy should be a priority of the country.

Now, Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University who has focused of late on climate campaigns (generating no shortage of sparks), takes a long deep look at McKibben's career in «Nature's Prophet: Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist,» a paper published by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where Nisbet recently completed a residency.

Instead, Steve has been focusing on those papers which seem to be shaping public policy.

The gap between production and consumption grew rapidly from 1990 to 2008, and explains the focus on climate policy in papers published around that time, as the growth in the gap between consumption and production more than offset emission reductions in Annex B countries.

This CICERO working paper focuses on policy issues associated with carbon sinks and provides a good overview of the potential and costs involved in implementing the land use, land use change and forestry options under the Kyoto Protocol.

SPPI was founded in mid-2007 with a strong focus on global warming skepticism, and draws heavily on papers published by climate change science denier Christopher Monckton who was the editor of the SPPI's «Monthly CO2 Report,» (last published in January of 2011) has had many of his papers published with SPPI, and is also listed as the group's «Chief Policy Advisor.»

The focus of this paper is on mitigation policies.

We haven't focused on green marketing / corporate policy issues much of late but a recent post over on the Environmental Paper Boy (EPB) raised some interesting questions in these areas.

Achieving emissions reductions for environmental justice communities through climate change mitigation policy by Nicky Sheats, PhD This paper focuses on emissions reductions for EJ communities under the Clean Power Plan in particular as well as climate change mitigation policy in general and argues that these reductions should be both mandatory and planned.

As announced in the Policy paper the ICC will now expand its focus on prosecuting with national governments such serious crimes as «illegal exploitation of natural resources, arms trafficking, human trafficking, terrorism, financial crimes, land grabbing or the destruction of the environment.»

Qualcomm's amicus brief is not laden with rhetoric like a policy paper but instead focuses completely on what Qualcomm hopes are the legal concerns the Federal Circuit will be most receptive to.

In an April policy paper, the American Bankers Association said reporting credit scores would be expensive and «cloud any focus» the disclosure law has in identifying discrimination.