Sentences with phrase «post-blakely policy conversation»

And, of course, the issues Bert championed in them — free trade and less regulation — were central to the policy conversation in the 1980s, when I was an undergraduate here at the University of Melbourne.

Any public policy conversation needs to recognize this and consider it carefully before actions create negative unintended consequences for America's small business job creators.

This direct approach offers news consumers a more personal — and unedited — connection to these public policy conversations.

This trend provides opportunities for advocacy organizations engaging in these larger public policy conversations to become live video broadcasters, and add their live video — and voices — to the public and media's news consumption.

Budgets are more than just dollars, Cuomo told NY1 in January; they are a way to promote policy conversations.

«The policy conversation goes on,» Cuomo told reporters at his annual Easter open house at the Executive Mansion in Albany.

Because of globalization and interdependence, the relationship between climate change, migration and security should become the «new normal» in international policy conversations, the panel said.

Wildfires» first anniversaries were the most promising periods for tough policy conversations.

King and colleagues say more work is needed to understand how the media influence individual attitudes and persuasion and call for further studies to determine the impacts of media ownership on influencing national policy conversations.

During the past two presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly» science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).

That will be used as fodder to attack Common Core, teacher evaluations, charter schools, or whatever else you happen not to like that's prominent in today's education policy conversation.

A critical role for those groups interested in supporting teacher leadership is, I think, helping classroom teachers learn how to operate in policy conversations and how to engage in tough - minded but respectful back - and - forth with policymakers, advocates, and the rest.

It is therefore appropriate — from the Olympian vantage point a half century provides — not only to assess the Coleman findings and conclusions but also to consider how and where they have directed the policy conversation.

Acknowledging this influence and the lack of strong evidence supporting links between teacher effectiveness and traditional metrics that have driven teacher retention and compensation policies for decades, recent policy conversations have focused on new ways of measuring and rewarding effectiveness.

In this book some of the most respected minds in educational equity provide a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United States.

Given its ability to trample any promising education improvement — or clear the way for its implementation — it was high time to put governance at center stage of the policy conversation.

In this report, Evidence Speaks contributor Judith Scott - Clayton teams up with two experts on British higher education — Richard Murphy and Gillian Wyness — to examine the consequences of ending free college in England, and consider what lessons may be drawn for the U.S. policy conversation.

We know teachers have invaluable feedback to add to the policy conversation.

Personally and professionally, my biggest contribution was my role in leading a shift in policy conversations to reverse the current approach in many Phoenix schools that criminalizes truancy.

Press: Chavez PCS Holds Public Policy Symposium - Washington Informer D.C. Charter school seniors join national policy conversation - Watchdog.org

«As one of our finalist teams noted, «teachers are an untapped resource to reform professional development,» and through this challenge we are incorporating the expertise of our nation's educators into the broader policy conversation,» said Melinda George, president of NCTAF.

In 2011, the National Education Association passed a policy statement on teacher evaluation, aiming to influence the policy conversation about revamped systems.

Evan shares with Dr. Rod Berger insights on teacher evaluation, teacher preparation, and the need for teacher voice in education policy conversations (Core of...

That education process spans the spectrum, they've engaged in public policy conversations asking «what are the nuts and bolts that make up a great school?»

In this Education Week article, Stephen Sawchuck refers to E4E and other groups outside of teachers unions helping teachers to engage in policy conversations.

The network provides a platform to share information, support and strategy, empowering local voices to enter the policy conversation and take action to improve educational quality for all children.

This workforce development conversation created an opportunity for organizations such as P21 to elevate «21st century readiness» in policy conversations about redesigning education systems and individual learning experiences.

In three different positions over the last seven years I have been able to travel the country and play a role in substantive education policy conversations in states and nationally that have a direct impact on improving student learning.

We are excited to join the important education policy conversation in the District of Columbia, and we look forward to collaborating with the Mayor, District Government agencies, the members of the Council, advocates, community members, education providers, and education researchers.

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

Most analysts in the education policy conversation agree that teacher quality is the most important in - school variable shaping students» educational outcomes.

And we will support efforts to build teacher voice into policy conversations.

Then, we curiously wonder why they often struggle navigating advocacy efforts or policy conversations.

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

It is time for teacher voices to ring loud and clear in the national policy conversation.

OCI seeks to change the education policy conversation from one where labor, public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children, to one where parents choose the best quality educational options for their child — no matter what form it comes in.

Delisle explains that one of her proudest accomplishments in her previous role as U.S. assistant secretary of education was bringing the voice of educators into policy conversations.

Ensure teachers are a part of the policy conversation as they are closest to our students and know firsthand how to best improve student achievement and reward outstanding teachers.

We produce original research to inform Rhode Island education policy conversations, as well as resources to help parents, teachers, policymakers and everyday Rhode Islanders take action for our students.

We produce original research to inform Connecticut education policy conversations, as well as resources to help parents, teachers, policymakers and everyday Nutmeggers take action for our students.

Education policy conversations are ones that need to be held by all, not just those who aren't afraid of the financial risk or are capable of deciphering complex regulatory language.

Comprehensive and balanced assessment systems are the subject of current technical and policy conversations, but designing effective and efficient systems can be fraught with major obstacles.

In education policy conversations, words like «equity» and «civil rights» are often used in an abstract sense, paired with vague notions of failing schools.

But it would be misleading and troubling to have the policy conversation mostly built on non-peer-reviewed science.

The industry and policy conversation on carbon removal is largely non-existent, which is the biggest threat to meeting our climate goals.

The company is also vocal about its sustainability commitments in policy conversations, in support of more ambitious climate and energy regulations.

We do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability

To wit, policy conversations are not going to get very far on the Right as long as skepticism about mainstream science dominates the debate.

To continue emissions progress, as well as to reduce consumer costs and keep manufacturing competitive, natural gas must be part of the policy conversation.

In late July, I lamented here the failure of the US Sentencing Commission to take a leading role in the post-Blakely policy conversation about the future of federal sentencing.