Sentences with phrase «push by policymakers»

Employers are faced with a determined push by policymakers to make it easier for people with criminal records to find employment.

Recently, there has been a push by policymakers to expand accountability measures to include parenting practices.

• The push by policymakers to boost academic performance, get more kids into and through college — and save some tax dollars by minimizing course duplication and, perhaps, student remediation.

Not exact matches

Policymakers should encourage (or push) districts to create similar options for their students by tying Title I and other federal aid programs to initiatives that promote online learning for the most talented students and that also provide physical locations for these students to do their advanced group work.

So, when things aren't working, policymakers are right to try to stimulate change (usually by creating incentives or rules that push more schools towards the characteristics of existing successful schools).

[1] Each wave of reform has been led by different combinations of leaders and stakeholders: government officials, educators, parents, and activists (focused on equity); business leaders and policymakers (focused on excellence / accountability); and parents (focused on choice and pushing back against assessment).

Policymakers should push their state systems to adopt common course numbering, create small grants for low - cost credits, and link MOOCs to existing credit - by - exam programs.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»

Advocates, parents, and policymakers must push back against these policies to ensure that all children, including those with disabilities, get the education they deserve and is afforded to them by federal law.

Civil rights groups are pushing equity into the spotlight by asking policymakers to better address the needs of historically underserved students through resource distribution and in local, state, and federal accountability systems.

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

This push to demolish large dams on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest, which got 70 percent of its electricity supply from hydropower as of 2009, has been criticized by influential policymakers, such as House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R - Wash.).

99.9 %??? The vast majority of scientists look at the above chart and instantly know that the Antarctica warming scare pushed by Comiso is a fabrication - like much of the IPCC «science» the public and policymakers are now identifying as a fabrication.