Sentences with phrase «science national priorities»

Among its recommendations: expand early education, improve teacher quality, support school innovation, make math and science national priorities, address the dropout crisis, and improve college access and affordability.

This book is compiled by Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.

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So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Congress has not only rejected the president's proposal to cut the National Institutes of Health as part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending; lawmakers from both parties have joined forces to increase spending on biomedical research — and have bragged about it.

AAAS CEO Alan Leshner testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space, discussing the proposed budget and priorities for the National Science Foundation (May 2, 2006)

This event addressed that question from different perspectives — what science tells us about the aging process and its impact on cognition, what effective, or not so effective, strategies there are for maintaining or enhancing cognition as we age, and what the funding priorities are as reflected in the portfolio of the National Institute on Aging.

Instead, it contains a long list of priorities, from building national science centers and space programs to expansion of major infrastructure with thousands of kilometers of new high - speed rail and roadways.

The rise of antibiotic resistance is a «top national security and public health priority,» says John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

She considers it a national priority to keep them enfranchised, as otherwise the notorious lack of a science work force in this country will become a self - fulfilling prophecy.

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

Could such spacecraft address high - priority science of the type identified in decadal science reviews from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine?

Its funding priorities are determined every year based on the Science and Technology Basic Plan, which is a midterm national S&T policy revised every five years, explains Takashi Ohama, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), one of the major research funding agencies.

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Approved in 2007, the original COMPETES legislation committed the government to providing healthy funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, while also setting government - wide spending priorities to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

«Scientific research and education are both national priorities and are incorporated into all of China's development strategies,» wrote Jiang Zemin, president of the People's Republic of China, in a recent Science editorial.

«In the absence of details, I wonder how the parliament will be able to discuss the science budget and articulate national science priorities,» he says.

That will make it easier for Trump to push through his policy priorities and nominees for key positions — including the leaders of science agencies such as NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for a current vacancy on the Supreme Court.

National security is rightly a top priority for the U.S. and other Western countries, but we will need to fine - tune the balance of principles more carefully if we are to participate fully in a world science community.

I decided that I wanted to understand, firsthand, how science - funding priorities are established on a national level.

Funding for USGS's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers would shrink in half, while «climate research and development» funding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, Feb. 8).

Scientific collaboration offers significant opportunities to advance biological science to address these and other national priorities and discuss shared principles and standards of practice to minimize risks associated with the research.

In a 2015 report of the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, a U.S. - led ton - scale experiment to detect neutrinoless double - beta decay was deemed a top priority of the nuclear physics community.

He emphasizes that NIH's plan applies only to its own portion of the BRAIN project — neither the National Science Foundation, which has committed $ 20 million to the project, nor the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has pledged $ 50 million, has released a road map for their research, or explained how they are setting priorities.

House of Representatives spending panel adds language that limits the National Science Foundation's ability to set priorities

Some standard Obama Administration priorities like clean energy and climate were again prominent, but some agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) received only limited discretionary increases, while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA faced billion - dollar cuts.

The Democratic National Convention elevated climate change on the party's list of electoral priorities, a move that's meant to energize progressive voters while casting shadows on Trump's judgment related to science and the environment.

Q: Does collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NIH mean overlapping funding priorities?

The President's budget offers hope that the nation will continue to make science and education investments a top national priority while taking serious steps to reduce budget deficits.

The current chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, Cruz says NASA's human space exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional support.

The scientific opportunities provide a compelling case for optimizing and advancing the country's system of observatories, even if the National Science Foundation's Astronomical Sciences Division (NSF / AST) does not yet have the resources to implement all of the report's key recommendations without severely impacting program balance — the long - standing priority of the NRC's decadal surveys.

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See https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/15/nanotechnology-inspired-grand-challenge-future-computing The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) states that, after considering over 100 responses to its June 17, 2015, request for information, it «is excited to announce the following grand challenge that addresses three Administration priorities — the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), and the BRAIN initiative.»

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education is a national priority, aimed at making U.S. students more proficient in these key fields.

In commenting on hopes for the future for science education in primary schools, we must hope that science is given priority, not just on an individual school agenda but also on a national agenda.

The comprehensive research synthesis report will provide information to the National Science Foundation on characteristics of effective and ineffective professional development and curricular investments, which could inform funding priorities.

In the words of Hasan Bakhshi, executive director of creative economy and data analytics within the leading think tank NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), «this makes it all the more important that we set learning priorities for young people today that are grounded in a rigorous assessment of what skills will be required of them when they enter the workforce».

In 2008, president - elect Barack Obama declared that preparing the nation for the «21st - century economy» required making «math and science education a national priority.»

Because of the priority given to federal requirements in reading and math, «we're getting a lot of teachers saying that their principals have come in and literally said, «Stop teaching science,»» said Gerald F. Wheeler, the executive director of the National Science Teachers Assocscience,»» said Gerald F. Wheeler, the executive director of the National Science Teachers AssocScience Teachers Association.

As such, it is critical that we have a platform for sharing opportunities and information with one another for advancing prevention science in the national priorities for policy and research.

Within a month, President Eisenhower was telling the American people: «According to my scientific friends, one of our greatest, and most glaring, deficiencies is the failure of us in this country to give high enough priority to scientific education and to the place of science in our national life.»

We offer professional learning in the national priority areas of mathematics, science, digital fluency, reading and writing.

I'm pleased to announce that Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania will lead an effort with the National Governors Association to increase the number of states that are making science, technology, engineering and mathematics education a top priority.

This report, which was carried out at the request of the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifies priorities and strategic steps forward for atmospheric chemistry research for the next decade.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

The Budget accelerates the development of new satellites the National Research Council recommended as Earth Science priorities.

Parties report on their national and cooperative research activities and their contributions to climate science, as well as emerging research needs and priorities, in their national communications.

A report [PDF] by the National Climate Adaptation Summit Committee, with findings, conclusions, and recommended near - term priorities following the National Climate Adaptation Summit held in Washington, DC, in May, was transmitted to the President's Science and Technology Adviser John Holdren and released publicly on September 29.

The SEARCH Implementation Workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences Section, was held to establish priorities for the next steps of the implementation of SEARCH.

The political priority if you are skeptical is to redirect the national science investment into higher priority areas that will help inform the decisions we will have to make.

An article in the edition highlighted important milestones in the history of health and medical research in Australia, covering the establishment of the National Health and Medical Research Council, the broadening of Australian research to include biomedical science, clinical medicine, public health and health services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our country.