Sentences with phrase «public and policymaker awareness»

By shepherding the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report to completion last year, «Pachauri made a major contribution to public and policymaker awareness of the mounting risks of climate change, the urgency of action and the availability of cost - effective climate solutions,» Meyer said in an e-mail.

Tennessee has gained a substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student achievement produced by local schools.

Public and policymaker awareness of the differences in school performance made evident by TVAAS came to public attention as schools were ranked and the top performers honored by the Education Consumers Foundation beginning in 2005.

Over the last five years, however, public and policymaker awareness has changed significantly.

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Since 2004, the AAAS Center for Public Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commPublic Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic, and the scientific community.

It does so in three ways: providing timely, useful information to policymakers; advancing awareness among the larger public on complex education issues; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes.

Launch a national security readiness audit to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and raise public awareness.

This case has helped raise awareness among policymakers and the general public about Arizona's broken, antiquated system of funding public schools.

Although the states that adopted Common Core's standards did so legally (usually by a vote of their state boards of education), many state policymakers deliberately minimized public awareness and discussion of the standards» academic deficits in order to ensure their passage and continue their use.

In this report, we offer a number of recommendations for policymakers, school officials, local community members, parents, and others dealing with demographic transformation and the persisting segregation of public schools: Creating Awareness

Respected scientists, Nobel Laureates and policymakers, including Lester Brown, Tony Blair, and Dr. James Hansen, have stressed the importance of raising public awareness about environmental degradation for 35 years; no one, to my knowledge, has examined what is actually needed in terms of communications to reach, inform, engage and motivate millions of Americans.

This guidance document provides recommendations to policymakers in five areas: policy development; government and resources; curriculum development; capacity building of teachers and education planners; and public awareness, communication and stakeholder involvement, based on the case studies, as well as brief profiles of climate change and education in 16 countries» sustainable development policy processes.

Finally, part of improving education (of both the general public and of policymakers) could quite aptly be to increase awareness of how carbon emissions reductions are a political issue that is both very immediate and very long term.

The Law Society marked Access to Justice Day this week (8 September) by launching a campaign to raise public awareness of the help available, persuade policymakers to make changes to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, and support solicitors in making their products and services more accessible.

Content highlights examines PAS and the roles of family members, the criminal justice system, and the need for public awareness and policymakers to respond to PAS.

As a result of increased awareness, policymakers and providers came together for a state infant mental health summit in October 2002 to share information about policy, funding, and public awareness.

Together we can help to increase understanding and support for high - quality early childhood education among policymakers and the public through a wide range of education, advocacy, and public awareness activities, including our annual Week of the Young Child celebration and the Children's Champions Web - based Action Center.

This groundbreaking public - private partnership effort is led by the ACE Awareness Foundation, the governor and first lady of Tennessee, and leading policymakers.