Sentences with phrase «reforms take hold»

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

Sara McClain, who has been principal at Thompson for eight years, says that despite some teacher turnover in the early years, as the district's instructional reforms took hold the remaining teachers came to embrace the new, more rigorous approach.

About 10 years ago, there was talk of revamping the senior year, but no national reform took hold.

The study highlights two years of employment records to show how pre-Katrina teachers fared as the reforms took hold.

CHICAGO — As education reform takes hold, we find ourselves traveling through another dimension — one not only of hysterics but also of childish behavior.

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In the letter, Dimon described Congress's reform as a «historic» step that «shows that we can take on tough issues that have been holding us back.»

Prince Mohammed, the 32 - year - old architect of Saudi economic reforms, took part in a panel discussion and held up an old - fashioned Nokia phone next to an iPhone to show the size of the change he planned.

However, Lake took pains to remind analysts that the operative word when it came to the «deemed repatriation of foreign earnings» - a measure in the reforms that sees liquid assets held overseas by US companies subject to a one - off charge of 15.5 % - was «deemed».

For a stronger recovery to take hold across the whole of Europe, greater political stability, allowing the promotion of significant growth - enhancing structural reforms, is probably required.

In those cases, land reform will take the direction of consolidating holdings to make them large enough to be viable subsistence farms.

For reform to take hold, a faculty needs to understand, participate in and identify with new aims, paradigms and structures.

It proved too much for Melancthon, who was taken seriously ill on his way to yet another round of negotiations on the future of the reforms that the Elector and the Emperor's representatives were holding in Hagenau.

Therefore, we know that school food reform is has taken hold in California.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

The defence secretary said he expected an «adult conversation» would take place after it emerged the Treasury is reforming its committee of Cabinet ministers as a «deterrent» to those still holding out.

We urge governments to hold their nerve and make sure these agreed reforms work and have a wide take up before attempting further fixes that risk upsetting attempts at global solutions.

Leading up to the November 7 vote on whether to hold a convention, the debate is shaping up around fear of what could be taken away versus hope that the public can take a shot at democratic reform.

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

Researchers looked at 67 schools where Mr. Hornbeck's education - reform plan was piloted last year and found that, in general, changes were taking hold and were viewed favorably by those involved.

Twenty years, while encompassing the schooling lifetime of one entire generation, has not been long enough for significant education reforms to take hold in the past.

The publicity efforts surrounding XQ «reflect a view that has been disproved over time — that the reason these reforms haven't taken hold is that people are not aware of them,» said Annenberg Institute senior fellow Simmons.

We want to see UDL as a reform initiative, one that we hope will really take hold nationwide and worldwide.»

«I can recall taking [her course on school reform] and really learning how to defend my positions because Kay always had some question about why I was taking a certain position... she taught me that challenging students to face the values they hold closest to their heart is important in developing their potential as leaders.»

Let's start with a big picture question... Briefly, Michael: Why haven't efforts to reform the senior year taken hold?

Some liberal members of Congress, like Sens. Paul Wellstone, D - Minn., and James M. Jeffords, I - Vt., even voted against the bill because they view the funding level as insufficient to help the reforms really take hold.

Superintendent Cami Anderson's recent letter goes a long way toward countering the narrative of failure that has taken hold about the Newark school reform effort.

Later, as the reform effort took hold, New Orleans also became the nation's epicenter of school reform, an ideal place for aspiring reform - minded educators.

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

The nation's capital is perhaps an unlikely place for education reform to take such firm hold.

Low - performing schools tend to get stuck in what Noguera calls «reform churn,» where nothing stays in place long enough to take hold.

As the «reforms» took hold, the leadership began to micromanage teachers» classrooms and professional lives:

Also, the seniority system will be exposed as the dinosaur that it is, meaningful school reform just might begin to take hold and the union will become much less powerful, and perhaps even irrelevant.

This leads to another problem with Petrilli's argument: The belief that somehow demanding states to hold districts and schools to high expectations (and expecting the adults who work within them to take on the kind of reforms needed to achieve those goals) is a bad thing.

If this were a matter of common sense, school reform would never have taken hold.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Calling themselves the «Connecticut Council for Education Reform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reform dReform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reform dreform debate.

«As charters take hold in our communities, questions will be raised about the quality issue,» said Harrison Blackmond, who heads Michigan's arm of Democrats for Education Reform.

And in an on - air interview on WBEZ promoting the series, both reporters conclude school reform «isn't working» because the correlation between poverty and outcomes hasn't changed from 2004 to 2014, the decade when No Child Left Behind took hold in schools nationwide.

Apparently threatened by the education reform movement taking hold across the country, the National Education Association has decided to join the party.

Barra and «new GM» can not be held legally liable for any accidents or injuries that took place before July 10, 2009, when the company was reformed after bankruptcy.

The following section outlines the predominant theories on what the future holds for access to justice reform, and what it will take to rebuild a healthy relationship between the justice system and the community.