Sentences with phrase «public and policymakers at»

In a joint effort, scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), the Cluster of Excellence LabexMER (France), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (United States), the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France), the UK Ocean Acidification research programme (UKOA) and the German research network Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification (BIOACID) engaged with public and policymakers at COP 21.

The nation's leading scientific organizations vowed to build on the momentum generated by the March for Science by continuing to reach out to the public and policymakers at all levels to promote sound scientific policies that advance discovery and benefit society, according to a joint statement...

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By telling our story — educating the public and working with policymakers at the state and federal level — we can ensure that the trucking industry remains the thriving industry it is today.

TMAF officially launched at the 2014 MATS, with the aim of educating the public, the legislators, the policymakers, and the media about the industry.

The Trucking Moves America Forward campaign launched in March 2014 at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky to inform policymakers and the public about the many contributions trucking makes to our daily lives.

AAPD members interested in public policy issues in their state as well as policymakers and advocates for children's oral health at the state level should feel free to contact the PPA in your state.

• Policymakers at all levels, from local to national • Civil servants, public affairs professionals, campaigners and senior journalists from all of Britain's newspapers and broadcasters • Politically interested members of the public (ABC1 adults and millennials)- think regular watchers of Newsnight and Question Time • Academics and students.

«The data will also provide statistics on agriculture for policymakers to allocate public resources effectively and to better identify, prepare, implement and evaluate developmental projects aimed at promoting agriculture in rural areas.

At Britain in 2014 we're opening up social science research to policymakers and the public, encouraging challenge and debate and building a two - way flow of questions and knowledge.»

Papa Kow Bartels further explains that the statistics on agriculture will enable policymakers to allocate public resources effectively and to better identify, prepare, implement and evaluate developmental projects aimed at promoting the sector in the rural areas.

And the problem was also partly a breakdown of communication between researchers, policymakers, and the public regarding the possibility of a volcanic crisis, writes Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanology and remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, in a commentary published in The Geographical JournAnd the problem was also partly a breakdown of communication between researchers, policymakers, and the public regarding the possibility of a volcanic crisis, writes Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanology and remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, in a commentary published in The Geographical Journand the public regarding the possibility of a volcanic crisis, writes Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanology and remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, in a commentary published in The Geographical Journand remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, in a commentary published in The Geographical Journal.

At this critical time of tax reform, widening gaps between the rich and poor and growing public support for higher taxes and redistribution to combat inequality, policymakers should consider joint federal tax and redistributive policies to reduce the burden of mortality among Americans,» said Professor Kim.

The committee reviews the Association's public policy activities, alerts AAAS to S&T policy issues that its members see coming over the horizon, oversees the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy as well as the annual AAAS reports on federally supported R&D, and sponsors other activities such as symposia and workshops at the AAAS Annual Meeting to help scientists and engineers communicate more effectively with policymakers.

«This model may be useful to advocates and policymakers as they pursue efforts to prevent the worst effects of climate change,» adds senior author Patrick Kinney, director of the Climate and Health Program and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Reviewing multiple challenges now facing science, Holdren used his speech to a standing - room - only crowd at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Washington headquarters to focus on the obligations of scientists and engineers to explain their research and its implications and share their knowledge with policymakers and the public.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

«We are indeed very worried and our article is a call for global action from the scientific community at large and from the public and policymakers to prevent this.»

Former NSABB member Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, describes Kawaoka's new work as «tremendously important» and says it should give the policymakers pause.

Speakers will discuss the contributions of the marine and environmental sciences communities in assessing and communicating to the public and policymakers the effects of similar disasters in ROK and the United States, where nuclear reactors are at risk from similar natural hazards.

Despite the unprecedented shift in the age of the population, the public, physicians and policymakers lack information on sexual behavior at older ages and on how sexual activities and problems change with age and illness.

«Last year at the annual meeting of the ASA, then - president Michael Buroway called for a «public sociology» — a discipline more engaged with solving social problems and linking with artists, activists, educators, and policymakers who strive to make social change,» said Luttrell.

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

[ii] The question facing policymakers and the public is not whether eliminating tuition at public colleges for most families will have a positive effect, but whether it is the best use of a large new federal investment in higher education.

The emerging public - policy issues surrounding day care for children and infants were debated by child - care experts and educators at several recent meetings designed to help set next steps for policymakers.

For sure, some of the author's analysis rings true: K — 12 education reformers sometimes try to scare the public and policymakers into action (think «A Nation at Risk»), and the Right may use the language of a «strict father» when arguing for testing, standards, and sanctions for failing schools.

Federal policymakers already provide aid on similar terms to students at public and private, non-profit colleges.

This difference manifests itself as two messages: an internal one, meant for the unions» leaders and activists, and an external one, meant for education policymakers and the public at large.

First, state policymakers should consider the optimal balance of state appropriations to public institutions and state grant aid that can be used at private, non-profit colleges.

In particular, state policymakers need to consider the role of the private sector when deciding the right balance between direct funding of public institutions and vouchers that students can use at any institution (in the state or more broadly).

«We publish books, reports, and briefing papers that illuminate critical problems and advance innovative solutions; work at both the national and state level with advocates and policymakers to promote reforms; help to build the capacity and skills of key progressive constituencies; project our values into the media by promoting Demos Fellows and staff in print, broadcast, and Internet venues; and host public events that showcase new ideas and leading progressive voices.»

At Editorial Projects in Education and Education Week, we believe that lasting school improvement will only come about when policymakers, practitioners, and the public are armed with the information they need to understand and push for change.

Knowing that supportive public and social policies can advance our vision of every school a community school, NCCS partners with colleagues at the city, state and national levels to educate policymakers about the core components and results of this research - based strategy.

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

Collaborative is an award - winning expert in rethinking and redesigning how student data are presented in ways that are accessible, appealing, and actionable for students, educators, parents, policymakers, and the public at large.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

Based on the findings presented in this report, CAP offers a series of recommendations for policymakers at the federal, state, and district level to facilitate the goal of making public schools more socioeconomically diverse.

Rather, it was the large - scale reform efforts of the 1980s described previously in this chapter that brought together literacy researchers and curriculum and measurement specialists to effect the types of changes being called for by the research community, policymakers, and the public at large.

In today's Education Next, Public Impact Co-Directors Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel take a look at the seductiveness of the concept of reducing class sizes — and why policymakers should resist temptation.

«The new report released today by the School Finance Research Collaborative is comprehensive in its analysis of funding needs at charter and traditional public schools, and it can be a tremendous resource for policymakers.»

We are appealing to Colorado policymakers in the legislature and at the State Board to use every tool available to ensure that all students have a quality public education.

Volume II, by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington, describes the policy environments of online charter schools and provides recommendations to state policymakers.

«Our goal in conducting the state surveys was to give relevant, actionable information on public views of public education to policymakers at the state and local levels,» said Joshua P. Starr, chief executive officer of PDK.

At ASCD, we believe that it's time for education policymakers at the national, state, and local levels to catch up with research and public opinion and make improving the quality of our nation's teachers a top prioritAt ASCD, we believe that it's time for education policymakers at the national, state, and local levels to catch up with research and public opinion and make improving the quality of our nation's teachers a top prioritat the national, state, and local levels to catch up with research and public opinion and make improving the quality of our nation's teachers a top priority.

Self - policing is the surest way to reassure outsiders and reduce the urge for policymakers to intrude on practice — especially when public funds and purposes are at stake.

I was reminded this week that our goal at TCSA, to improve student achievement by advocating for and strengthening a diverse set of high quality charter schools, is shared nationwide by educators and policymakers who believe that charter schools are the best public school option for students.

So the answer to whether schools are improving is still up for grabs, but at least we know some of the variables that constitute improvement in the eyes of policymakers, journalists, and the public.

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

Operating at the confluence of practice, policy, and politics, we challenge ourselves, educators, and policymakers to rethink public education.

At the same time, there was growing interest in teacher quality among policymakers, philanthropists and education reformers looking for ways to improve on a public education system that was reportedly failing to produce students who could compete globally.