Sentences with phrase «shaping policy debates»

Nearly two decades later, the Delors report and its four pillars of learning have shaped policy debate and practice across numerous countries of the Asia - Pacific region and beyond, and continue to influence the education policies and practices of national governments and the work of international development partners including UNESCO, the World Bank and other international organizations.

Not exact matches

«We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates,» they said in their letter to their daughter.
Today, these values shape the public debate and policy of most industrialized countries and have been imposed on many others through the structural adjustment required by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The debate is shaping as a NSW election issue and the Australian Beverages Council has threatened to run attack advertising against the government if it supports a container deposit policy.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D - Ill., recently visited her granddaughter's Evanston school to learn about the situation on the ground so she can help shape federal policy when Congress debates the nutrition act.
The three Cs which have encapsulated the common sense of the age since the early - 1980s — Choice, Customer and Competition — still dominate public debate and shape public policy.
This year's conference season will probably have a bigger policy impact than any of the following five, because 2013's discussions and debates can still genuinely shape manifesto and policy development, which will have largely crystallised by the following year.
Eventually those patents were sold to an affiliate of Liberty Media for a hefty sum, allowing Samuels to use his windfall to run for office, flirt with running for office, and help shape the debate from the left by speaking out on issues and challenging candidates to adopt policies he advocates for.
But he and his supporters do also now need to do more to ensure that they frame and shape debates about the direction which the leader wants the policy review to take.
As the largest NOW chapter in the country, they play a key role in shaping the debate on the issues that impact women, creating policies, and holding government and businesses accountable to the women of New York.
But The Shape of Water is more directly applicable to the current debate raging over the White House's hardline immigration policies and the emergence of the alt - right.
«I got to experience a variety of different challenges, participate in nearly every higher education policy debate, and craft new policy that has shaped the conversation in higher education in important ways,» Smith says, citing her work on the college scorecard and the financial aid shopping sheet as among the initiatives she found most interesting.
«David is one of the top young education economists in the country — his work has earned high praise in academic circles and helped to shape national debates on education policy.
The flaw of selection on dependent variable analyses is so obvious that it is shocking that education policy debates continue to be shaped by them.
This group, to which I belonged as well, met twice a year for some 15 years — discussing, debating, developing projects, writing books and articles, crafting policy proposals, consuming lots of wine and food, and doing our best to shape the trajectory of American school reform.
E. D. Hirsch has spent twenty - five tireless years bringing these findings from cognitive science to education policy and practice, but the reaction he has evoked indicates that the curriculum debates Loveless recounts may be shaped by a more fundamental opposition than whole language vs. phonics and multicultural vs. traditionalist.
The dollars and messages that the federal government sends to states and districts transform the education policy debate and shape opportunities for the nation's students.
And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.
It's not a live public forum or debate where we can see the candidates answer questions or exchange views in real time, but it's better than nothing: Educators 4 Excellence, an organization that advocates for teachers to take a more active role in shaping education policies, plans to host a podcast interview with District 6...
It didn't get much media attention, but I believe the kind of debate that I describe below is more illustrative of how education policy is shaping up these days in the Tar Heel state.
Factors Shaping Public Debates and Policy on Farm Animal Welfare.
As the policy debate around western water and climate change intensifies, it'll be ever more important to discriminate spin from science in assessing factors shaping droughts, as Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has been trying to stress.
According to the MIT Energy Initiative website: «MIT's energy studies and reports are making a difference, providing both Congress and the executive branch with detailed recommendations to shape and influence energy policy debates, responses, and outcomes.»
The U.S. Congress begins a summer of important debates on the future of American energy policydebates that the Group of Eight industrialized nations can help shape at their summit in Germany this week by focusing on the devastating impact high energy costs and climate change have on the world's most vulnerable populations.
The goal should not be to defend the science of climate change or to boost climate literacy, since science is not what is at issue in the policy debate, and science is not what shapes public judgment or preferences.
We are now four decades removed from the energy turmoil of the 1970s, events that profoundly shaped energy debates and policies ever since.
The Team, led by Phil Jones and Michael Mann, in attempts to shape the debate and influence public policy:
London, 21 February: A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) shows that both the science and policy of the climate debate are shaped and driven by an almost flawless example of classical GroupPolicy Foundation (GWPF) shows that both the science and policy of the climate debate are shaped and driven by an almost flawless example of classical Grouppolicy of the climate debate are shaped and driven by an almost flawless example of classical Groupthink.
250 of the worlds greatest architects of technology, global captains of industry and leading international policy - makers will debate on how to shape the future in intimate co-creation sessions.
As the largest NOW chapter in the country, they play a key role in shaping the debate on the issues that impact women, creating policies, and holding government and businesses accountable to the women of New York.
In short, Cronk wants to advance members» use of technology, ensure that REALTORS ® help shape the public policy debate in this key election year, and expand members» global business opportunities.
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