Sentences with phrase «see policy points»

See Policy Points (PDF) today to find out which member of Congress was in high school when No Child Left Behind passed and which member served as a helicopter pilot, earning the responsibility to fly Marine One, the President's personal helicopter.

See Policy Points today (PDF).

To learn how much time students currently spend taking tests and which students take the most tests, see this Policy Points infographic (PDF).

And if you want to put this data to work, see this Policy Points resource (PDF) for ways to use your state's Whole Child Snapshot.

Not exact matches

«We do not see an imminent turning point in commodity prices and thus forecast further negative repercussions on the Canadian economy next year,» Sebastien Lavoie, assistant chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, said in an analysis of the Bank of Canada's latest policy statement.

Trump said he used to invest in U.S. stocks but got out because «I don't like what I'm seeing at all,» pointing to U.S. immigration policies, Syrian refugees, and what he said were «artificially low» interest rates.

CBA is seen as a stable part of life in the country of 24 million where most people have had a mortgage, insurance policy or regular savings account with CBA at some point - often starting with its famed «Dollarmites» deposit account for school children.

The unravelling of the German talks came as a surprise since the main sticking points - immigration and climate policy - were not seen as FDP signature issues.

«Unless the policy rate differential between South Korea and the U.S. is as wide as 100 basis points, it will be OK and we won't see major capital outflows,» Yoon said.

«At this point, I don't see this market adjustment spilling over into financial conditions - but Ill be watching carefully,» Kaplan, a non-voting member of the Fed's policy committee, told reporters in Frankfurt.

To this point, the ECB and other policy makers have been all about promises and inviting others to take the first step and it appears that we are seeing much of the same thing this morning.

«I'd argue it's more on the psychological side of things, whereby people see a new major policy pointed at the housing market and take a bit of a step back, temporarily reassess where they are in the marketplace before perhaps moving back into the market.»

December 2012 was seen as a key turning point for gold prices with the commodity losing its close correlation to Fed policy announcements.

Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Director of Policy and Economics Mike Holden's Manufacturing Sales report for September 2015 saw lower figures in September as sales slumped to their lowest point since May 2015.

«Deregulation» and other changes have seen these controls abandoned to the point where short term interest rates are now virtually the only monetary policy instrument.

We see an inflection point in growth, inflation, and monetary policy, and markets are catching up to these fast - changing dynamics.

It is instructive to see what happened in a range of countries during this second period, that is between the turning point in US policy in 1965 and the OPEC shock at the end of 1973.

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

SoberingThought Do you see the irony in Kansas State's dismissing point guard Mario Taybron forviolating its substance - abuse policy when it just hired coach Bob Huggins (Inside College Basketball, June 5), 19 of whose Cincinnati players or recruitswere charged with crimes as he led the Bearcats onto NCAA probation for lack ofinstitutional control?

One point I haven't seen discussed, Wenger has finally chosen to break the over 30, long - term contract policy to secure genuine class and experience.

I was just tying to point out to one of many desires a true fan has with his club.What lack of brains are you talking, when you yourself need some in seeing the big picture about the lack of trophies we had and I was just trying to prove that «Galacticos» idea can help wenger in his youth driven policies.

My point is: Until we have overall policies that will ensure every mom is able to take plenty of maternity leave, pump as needed, etc., etc., I don't think I really want to see free formula taken away entirely.

The conspiracy theorist living inside my brain says we can expect to see more of this type of «journalism», followed by calls on the school officials to DO SOMETHING because IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN»S SAFETY and IF WE LET THE PARENTS SEND LUNCHES TO SCHOOL THEN CHILDREN WILL DIE!!!!!!!! (note the many, many exclamation points — that means this is a REALLY IMPORTANT POINT Y ’ ALL), followed by local school officials implementing policies to BAN CHILDREN FROM EATING FOOD BROUGHT IN FROM «OUTSIDE» and mandate that they eat, instead, the lunch provided by the school.

Syria is not an isolated case and we need to see two examples about the US behavior in the foreign policy to understand this point of view:

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

Undeterred Davies pointed out that violence against women and girls could never be entirely eradicated, said he doesn't understand the difference between a goal and a target and demanded a list of concrete policies that the panel would like to see implemented that would help achieve the goal of equality.

They are natural bedfellows, and as I pointed out on my blog, I see very few areas of policy on which a Tory - Lib coalition would work.

In his campaign literature, Lasher says, «We have seen a disturbing rise in school discipline policies that rely on fear and shame; are used to push students out of schools, either directly or indirectly; are too often implemented in racially disparate ways; and which can be the starting point for the school - to - prison pipeline that has contributed to the mass incarceration of young men of color.»

The rightwing, free - market and anti-EU Independence party, whose policies are seen to have led to the collapse, are in disgrace under new leadership, embroiled in a party funding scandal amid allegations of sleaze, and have slumped 17 points in the polls to 22 %.

«The only plus I have seen so far is that effort of moving the prime rate to 2 % below to what we used to have and that is a step in a right direction» the Policy Analyst pointed out.

And as David Cameron pointed out this morning, we should not see this policy in isolation.

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

More often I found that we made points or issued challenges, or tried to spark controversy in one policy area or another, and it has fallen on deaf ears among the broadcasters in a way I've never seen in a previous election.

Moralising about how easy it is to see sexually explicit images online might score political points, but there is a better route to policy

The researchers point out that despite its low status and variable content and quality, school based SRE is seen as vital by policy makers for protecting young people from ill health, unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and exploitation.

This is not the first time that Wintemute has attacked papers he perceives to be weak, even if they point toward policies he would like to see adopted.

«The whole point of the seminar was to see if we can learn from best policies and practices in other countries and inject these ideas into our policy discussions at home,» Schwartz said.

We are weary of educational policy experts who are so distant from interactions with children that they see human beings as data points.

Here's the best stuff I've seen: This Gerson column smartly points out the federal government's successes and failures (and though this superb Brooks column on evolving conservative policy thinking isn't about The War on Poverty per se, it should be read in conjunction with Gerson's).

These case studies were seen as leading the way toward a new generation of policy analysis that recognized «the importance of understanding the transformation of policy into teacher actions from the vantage point of the teachers, themselves, as well as from that of the policy system» (p. 175).

For more information about poverty's influence on education, see the latest issue of Policy Points (PDF).

See the latest Policy Points (PDF) for ways to use ASCD's Whole Child Snapshots to maximize your students» academic achievement and personal fulfillment.

For more information about teacher leadership, see ASCD's latest Policy Points (PDF), which features recent data on the primary characteristics of teacher leaders, identifies states that offer formal teacher leader certifications, and offers recommendations on how to best support teachers in leadership roles.

See how your state's evaluation system stacks up in ASCD's newest Policy Points (PDF).

See this previous issue of Policy Points (PDF) for background information about sequestration and how the budget caps affect education funding.

And for more ideas about how schools can mitigate the effects of poverty, see the latest Policy Points — Poverty and Education (PDF)-- which includes recommendations aligned with the whole child tenets: healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

To address these and other questions, it is helpful to understand historic turning points in U.S. k - 12 school policy and governance, and to see how the evolution of a local control system resulted in today's more centralized policies and reforms.

Massachusetts, often seen as an education leader nationally, used Phase 2 RTTT money as one rationale to roll out new standards, tests, and evaluations, aligning its policy environment with the 500 - point federal rubric.

For more comparisons of the candidates» education views, see ASCD's inaugural edition of Policy Points, a new policy publication that spotlights timely education policy issues important to educPolicy Points, a new policy publication that spotlights timely education policy issues important to educpolicy publication that spotlights timely education policy issues important to educpolicy issues important to educators.

Pressed for answers this week, Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph), a supporter of the A-F school grades, told N.C. Policy Watch that in terms of how the A-F school grading formula works, — 80 percent of a grade is based on students» achievement at one point in time, and 20 percent is based on students» growth over time — he's taking a wait - and - see approach, speculating that it will take some time to see if the formula needs tweaking to present a better picture of which schools are helping their students grow and which are not.