Sentences with phrase «public policy conversations»

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?»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Throughout that time, we have carried on an intellectual conversation about Burkean conservatism, libertarianism, and public policy.

The Institute was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be «naked,» and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.

Any conversation about personal responsibility or public policy that fails to acknowledge this reality is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

Interfaith dialogue is at the core of the Centre's work and involves actively promoting conversations among Nigeria's faith communities, as well as between leaders in faith and public policy.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

The remarkable opportunities created by scientific advancements are accompanied by ethical and policy challenges that demand a broader public conversation.

Our approach is to drive content, primarily through social media, that steers public conversation and enables greater participation against ivory consumption that in turn supports and promotes pro-conservation government policy and enforcement.

It is time for a sustained public conversation about media policy, akin to the ones we have about health care, the economy, defense and the budget.

After a discussion of opposition to Betsy DeVos, EdNext's Paul Peterson joined the conversation about school finance along with Linda Darling - Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute and Susan Ferriss of the Center for Public Integrity.

The goal of the EL Summit was to elevate the conversation around equity for English learners by bringing together diverse stakeholders practice and policy — from universities, public schools, charter networks, community organizations, and nonprofits.

My hope is that this exercise helps spur conversation about which university - based academics are contributing most substantially to public debates over education and ed policy, and how they do so.

In a conversation that included representatives from KIPP, YES Prep, Cesar Chavez High School for Public Policy, UNO, High Tech High, Basis, National Heritage Academies, Basis, and Democracy Prep, among others, participants talked bluntly about the need to do far better when it comes to developing character, cultivating citizenship, and monitoring their performance in these areas.

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.

Those conversations ignore the systematic policies that disadvantage public schools.

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Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

So we hope that the public, school district folks and policy makers will use the data in this report to have a robust conversation.»

A conversation on Facebook about reading became touchy yesterday, reminding me that you only need to scratch the surface to find serious differences when it comes to education and public policy.

The Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raleigh, reported last month that House and Senate legislators differed on when they would renew conversations about class size, but Horn, who did not offer any specifics on a proposed deal, indicated this week that the two chambers may soon find some common ground.

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.

March 22, 2013: For those who missed NC Policy Watch's Crucial Conversation with Diane Ravitch on the threats facing public education today, the full program is now available online: Click here to view

Give teachers the support and resources they need to lead collaborations with their peers and hold public conversations about changes to existing policy and practice grounded in their experiences with blended learning initiatives.

Their conversation will be moderated by Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

By studying the Twitter conversation surrounding the Common Core, we shed light on the ways that social media - enabled social networks are influencing the political discourse that, in turn, produces public policy.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.

A former public school educator of 22 years, Will is a co-founder of Modern Learner Media and co-publisher of ModernLearners.com which is a site dedicated to helping educational leaders and policy makers develop new contexts for new conversations around education.

NYC Urban Field Station artist - in - residence Mary Mattingly has created a floating food forest that invites the public to cultivate fresh food as the barge travels through NYC harbors and acts as a setting for conversations about food and public policy.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

For these buildings, the policies require an annual benchmarking of energy and water use with public disclosure; an energy audit and retro - commissioning every ten years; for non residential spaces, upgrades for lighting to meet the energy code, the installation of electrical meters or sub meters for large tenant spaces; and an Energy Conversation Construction Code that applies to all new building and renovations.

With the public conversation hijacked, meaningful progress on climate policy is blunted and the vested interests seeking to maintain our current addition to fossil fuels prevail.

The «violation of public policy» language is what drops off in everyday conversations.

Finally, it can be a kind of conscience and forum for the profession, speaking with a strong editorial voice about social and public - policy issues and enabling conversations about those issues within the profession.

But I am also convinced that further conversation between these wings of Anglo - American public law is important, for we are all struggling with the tension between the supremacy of law and the need for sound, politically responsive policy in a complex world.

[12] With respect to the taped conversations, the trial judge relied on solid principles that took into account not only the sound public policy of trying to discourage the use of secretly recorded conversations in family proceedings but also his assessment of the probative value of the tapes in relation to the issues before him.

This analysis at The Conversation by Australian National University Public Policy Professor Peter Whiteford says it is worrying that the budget papers do not identify the costs of the drug testing proposal nor the expected savings, concluding that the proposal is symbolic, rather than designed to have a positive impact.

However, up until this point, the community is absent from the conversation to design, develop and implement good public policy — they generally are involved only when government have finished their work and present what is coming in the near future.

Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

The topic of conversation at most of these congressional meetings was NAR's spring public policy agenda, including raising limits on loans insured by the FHA, supporting private property rights, and granting surviving spouses the full capital gains exclusion when they sell their home.