Sentences with phrase «while policymakers and the public»

Researchers typically use the scale scores because they offer more precise results, while policymakers and the public usually report scores according to the achievement levels.

Not exact matches

Litan adds that while the public and policymakers are right to worry about the startup decline, aspiring entrepreneurs needn't sweat it.

«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

While we find fault with the methodology employed by the CRP authors, and with their conclusions, we recognize that the questions addressed by the CRP, in this report and in scores of earlier ones, concern issues of importance for policymakers and the public alike.

During the two - day conference on June 18 and 19, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, and policymakers focused on research findings that provide further insight into raising achievement levels while working to close the achievement gap.

While policymakers and pundits hotly debate the merits of vouchers, national tests, and limiting class sizes, the American public is more interested in the qualifications of the people who work most closely with students, a survey shows.

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

While many policymakers, education administrators and even the organizations responsible for protecting and promoting public education have turned a blind eye or engaged in the politics of appeasement, Wendy Lecker has continued to speak the truth and promote the notion that a just society strengthens not undermines its commitment to a comprehensive public education system.

Viewpoints of charters are equally varied among policymakers and education leaders, while the American public mostly supports charters but is simultaneously confused about how they operate.

SFER is a model of how the Pro-Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry works to control the narrative surrounding public education while seeking to «win the hearts and minds of federal, state and local policymakers.

While each of the states featured in the report have pursued a unique combination of approaches to reduce suspensions, three common strategies were at the core of their success: each state collected and analyzed comprehensive school discipline data from their systems; they regularly shared school discipline metrics with policymakers, educational leaders, and the public; and they used that data to drive and shape legislative and administrative improvements.

While high - quality teaching matters most for student achievement, high - quality teaching is much more complex than the general public and policymakers realize.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

This is a critical element of the draft environmental review because while State determined that tar sands is dirtier than conventional oil, it concludes that Keystone XL would have little impact on the expansion of tar sands and therefore policymakers and the public needn't consider the impacts of that expansion.

Do you really think you can still preserve the theme of panic by mainstream press and coastal elites to be foisted on the public and policymakers as «consensus» science, if the earth continues to cool while emissions increase?

Now, policymakers, businesses, and a broader segment of the general public are showing an increased interest in ZNE as a means to reduce building operating costs and environmental impact while addressing energy supply challenges.

It's students — and churchgoers, concertgoers, and other victims of gun violence — who suffer while policymakers stumble in the dark, beholden to the money the gun industry uses to influence public opinion.