Sentences with phrase «pressing public policy challenges»

Through annual giving, members of this group foster community engagement in some of the most pressing public policy challenges while interacting with world leaders, national decision - makers and leading researchers.

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This might be a crude analysis - we'd certainly never counsel criticism for its own sake - but challenging policy in a constructive and meaningful way through the pages of the national press can often complement a public affairs strategy rather than hinder it.

The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) is the premier opportunity for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first - hand about public policy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challPolicy Fellowships (STPF) is the premier opportunity for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first - hand about public policy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challpolicy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challenges.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Aside from celebrating charter schools, the rally «will also call upon elected representatives in local and state government to support pro-charter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Families.

Successfully initiating, implementing, and sustaining the transformation of the lowest - performing public schools is a pressing challenge for policy leaders and practitioners nationwide.

As conveners and facilitators, we train and support public educators to understand the stakeholders in education systems and to vet solutions to the pressing challenges in policy design and implementation.

Successfully initiating and sustaining meaningful improvements in the lowest - performing public schools is a pressing challenge for policy leaders and practitioners nationwide.

A few days ago I was interviewed about the challenges and opportunities in reporting on complicated, but consequential, science (climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

A combination of weak / speculative science, issuing the press release prior to peer review or at least public availability of the paper, a direct challenge to establishment assessment reports, policy advocacy, and use of a professional publicity / marketing / lobbying group to handle the publicity seems to have contributed to the backfire.