Sentences with phrase «state policy institution»

Opposition diminished only after Keppel agreed to house the program in a state policy institution, the Education Commission of the States, and to report results in no smaller unit than «region.»

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The announcement follows up the recent announcement of the Blockchain Alliance, when a wide variety of leading bitcoin start - ups have formed a partnership, meant to create the Alliance, which aims to help bitcoin start - ups, but also discuss regulatory policies alongside with legal matters that concern digital currencies with state institutions and banks.

This state of things should discipline our zeal: all policies will one day face repeal, all present institutions cede their powers eventually to circumstance and hours.

This problem today is engendered and sustained by virtually every institution responsible for the creation of the built environment: the real estate development industry; the construction industry; federal, state and local regulatory agencies; the rule - of - thumb manuals of transportation engineers; the lending policies of banks; the professions of architecture and planning; the patrons of architecture; and above all the zoning ordinances that regulate where and how buildings get built.

(d) The development of the technology of communications — which simultaneously provides the mainstay of power of the national state and its symbiotic institutions, and an example of the highest stage of development presently visible in world - ecological organization and policy.

Where the Church is identified with these national state institutions, as is largely the case, its influence at the grass roots level reinforces the reign of these obsolete institutions and policies.

In the words of James Petras, globalization is «the product of state policies linked to international economic institutions» 2.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion at Florida State University and President of the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a Washington - based research institution.

In some regions, municipal or state - level institutions have adopted research and extension policies to directly benefit small family farms (e.g. in Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil).

One day in July 1962 he sold 110 three - dollar policies to the staff of the state mental institution in Warm Springs, Mont. — a company record.

The NASBE Center for Safe and Healthy Schools encourages state and local government agencies, national associations, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions interested in school health policy to link to the State School Health Policy Datastate and local government agencies, national associations, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions interested in school health policy to link to the State School Health Policy Datpolicy to link to the State School Health Policy DataState School Health Policy DatPolicy Database.

Indeed, many right - wing and extreme right political currents display a nationalist ideology valuing the nation - State and its identity against any sort of supranational institutions and policies.

The core policies and institutions of the postwar welfare state... were all products of wartime planning».

The NCSL goes on to make it clear that this award is not handed out based on policy, but rather awarded to lawmakers who have strengthened the «institution of state legislature.»

If the EU is to survive, its policy and institutions will need to reflect what it has become: a continent - wide ensemble of heterogeneous states and economies which show little sign of convergence.

Already prior to the financial crisis, since the early / mid - 2000 s, the Commission had attempted to coordinate European aid policies more closely for the sake of reducing fragmentation and enhancing their effectiveness by committing the EU institutions and member states to one common policy.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Vitally, during her talk, she was able to link this imbalance in the dynamics of power between state institutions to the implementation of a security - focussed and, ultimately, retrogressive foreign policy towards Pakistan's neighbours and in the state's linkages with the global imperium.

And the very institution in which the high policy will play out and in which the needed legislation shaped — Parliament — could well be in a state of reconstruction.

At the book's heart is criticism of the incoherence of coalition strategy: the understandable dominance of US policy and resources, a policy driven by the Pentagon rather than the State Department; an Afghan government that lacked institutions or the ability to govern the provinces directly; Afghanistan's part in Pakistan's strategic conflict with India; and criticisms of the UK deployment to Helmand.

, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

ALBANY (AP) Several New York state lawmakers raised concerns Tuesday about federal and state policies to move more disabled people from institutions to community residences and managed care for medical treatment.

He said: «It is an open fact that the successive democratically elected governments in the State since 1999 have been totally committed to democratic principles, rule of law, strengthening of democratic institutions as well as implementation of programmes and policies that would enhance the wellbeing of all Lagosians, without bias for tribe, religion, political belief or gender.

During these period under Mills / Mahama administration, Ghanaians experienced massive government corruption, Bad governance and substandard economic policies leading to the near collapse of almost all state institutions and social intervention programs.

«If the bill before the Ugandan parliament becomes law, it must be the policy of the United States government to oppose any aid to Uganda from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, or any other international financial institution of which we are a member.»

He was real glad that we got the health insurance for all of the children in the state, and he was very happy that we had the change in the reimbursement policy for heath - care institutions, a process known as rebasing, and he told me about that and, uh, he didn't say too much about what he was going to be doing and oh, what was that — it was a nice conversation — I also talked to Silda.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, for example, recently counted more than 220 companies, government laboratories, research institutions, universities, and policy centers involved in synthetic biology in the United States, with California, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas hosting the majority of these.

In the United States, it's not hard to find formal training in science policy; many institutions offer programs that directly open doors to science - policy careers.

And, also as in the United States, specific policies vary on an institution - by - institution basis with the norm for assistant professors being 4 to 7 years before tenure review (see sidebar).

In 2010, Clark took a position as a program manager in global health at San Diego State University, where he plans to further this policy career and use the lessons he learned at NPA to improve working conditions for postdocs at his institution.

According to the study, postsecondary institutions, STEM departments, accrediting entities, and state and federal education policies — grounded on the STEM pipeline metaphor that there is only one linear route to a bachelor's STEM degree — have largely ignored the various pathways taken by students today to earn a STEM degree.

In its appropriation directions for higher education institutions for the 2016 fiscal year, the government states that all higher education institutions must produce a plan showing how they intend to move their work on Gender Mainstreaming forward, so as to contribute towards achieving the goals of gender equality policy.

APLU is a research, policy, and advocacy organization representing 219 public research universities, land - grant institutions, state university systems, and related organizations.

Other sponsoring institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Other sponsoring institutions are the Harvard Program on Education Policy of Governance, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Other collaborating institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Other collaborating institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Other sponsoring institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

Other collaborating institutions are the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.

As a student representative on the Council on Postsecondary Education in Kentucky, Quarles helped developed policy to cap tuition increases in state public universities - where public institutions had raised tuition as much as 23 percent in one year.

FERPA states that no federal funds shall be made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice of permitting the release of students» educational records (or personally identifiable information contained therein) to any individual, agency, or organization, without the written consent of the students» parents.

Other sponsoring institutions are the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, part of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

While Vance may see personal behavior rather than policy as exerting a greater influence on life outcomes, public institutions — the Marine Corps and Ohio State University most particularly — played a prominent role in arresting his otherwise inevitable march down the road to nowhere.

Unfortunately, we lack a robust system of school choice and instead have to rely on democratic institutions, like school boards and state legislatures, to determine most school policies and practices.