Sentences with phrase «seen by policymakers»

The FHFA is the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the new platform is being seen by policymakers as a key step in the eventual unwinding of the two companies.

Not exact matches

Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery.

We concur with recent comments by Fed policymakers that US economic weakness seen in first - quarter data is likely to be transitory, and that activity should pick up over the rest of the year.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

Professor Gallent explained: «Planning and Local Government reforms are seen by community groups as serving the interests of policymakers rather than local people.

The authors would also like to see European and national policymakers offer young researchers the possibility of pursuing nontraditional academic careers — by becoming permanent staff researchers or moving between academia and industry, for example.

But you can give policymakers an opportunity to see science behind the scenes and offer a powerful story for them to tell by setting up lab tours.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

When tuition goes up, policymakers increase federal aid to bring out - of - pocket costs down again, only to see those resources gobbled up by future tuition increases.

«If we want to see improvement in the next 20 years, we need a real commitment by our policymakers to implement coordinated, sustained and interconnected strategies to improve student performances, including by reducing disparities between schools and by making teaching more attractive to highly able school leavers.»

When I suggest that talkers and doers need to listen to those who see things differently, that policymakers are well - served by humility, or that reform needs to work for teachers as well as students, it's not because I want everyone to get along.

Second, policymakers and reformers should understand that the role of schools is seen differently by experienced practitioners.

Such binary thinking sees policymakers swayed by specious claims that licensing is necessary to protect public health and safety or to promote...

We look forward to seeing Texas join 25 other states and Washington, D.C. whose policymakers have put the needs of parents and students first by expanding educational choice.»

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

With nearly 20,000 candidates pursuing certification and new innovative approaches for integrating National Board Standards, National Board Certification, and ATLAS into professional learning systems, the National Board is seeing significant interest and engagement by teaching professionals and policymakers alike.

If these distinctly human overproduction, over-consumption and overpopulation activities we see overspreading the surface of Earth are unsustainable, then I am going to suppose we will insist upon some changes in our behavioral repertoire so that sustainable ways of living in the world are proposed by policymakers and adopted by our leaders.

I hope you can grasp the distinction and also see how «CAGW» is not a «concept invented by skeptics», but rather a premise being sold to the public and policymakers by IPCC.

Rick Pilz, who worked for the US Climate Change Science Program, and whose job it was to oversee the writing of reports for policymakers, claimed that he saw the science watered down and censored by a White House aide.

If scientists can demonstrate to policymakers that we would see significantly fewer and less intense extreme weather events by putting the brakes on our emissions then it might lead to the necessary action to protect society and the environment from the worst outcomes of climate change.»

At long last the «Summary For Policymakers» is published without the ipcc's Press Release Propaganda preceding it by weeks and promising us that «smoking guns» will magically appear when we do finally see the SPM.

Richard Betts has an interesting comment re 2 degrees, excerpt: I see the «2 degree limit» as rather like a speed limit on a road — both are set by policymakers on the basis of a number of considerations.

Several times the report mentioned the stress on the system caused by increased penetration of wind and solar energy, a controversial topic, which has seen fingers pointed at all number of technologies, policymakers and freak weather events.

By the time one gets to policymakers, climate models are seen at best as black boxes, and at worst as simply irrelevant to their detailed concerns.

Well, the IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers says that they have «very high confidence,» 90 % or more (see the image to the right for how the IPCC AR4 defines all the various confidence levels), that human beings have heated up the planet since 1750 (Box TS.1 on page 22 - 23 of the describes the percent confidence / likelihood indicated by the language).

The clean energy sector, backed by innovative entrepreneurs, investors, and government policymakers, has seen enormous growth over the past 6 years.

For policymakers the goal should not be deregulation for its own sake, but rather increasing access to legal services that the public can trust delivered by legal service providers who are part of a larger legal community that sees furthering the public good as a fundamental commitment.

Reinforcing Seoul's intent to tighten the screws on a market widely seen as opaque and risky by global policymakers, the country's customs earlier on Wednesday announced it had uncovered illegal cryptocurrency foreign exchange trading worth nearly $ 600 million.

«Indeed, the credibility of researchers for policymakers, stakeholders, and the public alike was contingent on their being seen as independent representatives of science and, by implication, nonpartisan, dispassionate, and thus antithetical to politics.»

His presentation is followed by testimonials from business leaders and policymakers who talk about the value they see in early childhood education.