Sentence examples for prescriptive mandates from inspiring English sources

That law had become unpopular because of its emphasis on testing and prescriptive mandates, though it is still widely praised for unmasking the nation's achievement gaps, particularly for black, poor and special education students.

The plan will require less carbon in our fuels, more efficient technologies across a broad swath of businesses and a carefully designed cap and trade system that uses market incentives instead of prescriptive mandates.

CTA called it a move "toward rigid, prescriptive technology mandates" and wants the proposed guidelines withdrawn.

Those are things that must be driven by industry because prescriptive policy mandates would quite likely have the unintended consequence of fossilizing cloud technologies while they are still in their early stages of development.

Although Romney opposes "overly prescriptive federal policy mandates," his proposal would apparently require Congress to mandate that states accept loss of direct Title I and IDEA grants as a condition of receiving federal education funds indirectly, even though the indirect funds would be reduced to the extent students went to privately managed schools.

As Oxford English Dictionary is a descriptive dictionary (as opposed to a prescriptive one), its mandate is to accurately reflect existing language patterns rather than advocating some usages over others.

The Department of Education said: "We recognize that it is challenging to revert from flexibility back to the requirements of the prescriptive, one-size-fits-all mandates of the No Child Left Behind law".

In one way, though, Kline's bill is more prescriptive in its language explicitly mandating that teacher evaluations rely, in part, on students' test scores.

The programme guidelines are illustrative not prescriptive in that they do not mandate which resources should be used nor how and where the information should be accessed (computer hard drive, CD-ROM or direct link to the Internet).

Andrew Pollard, an academic who was one of a team of four involved in the review, said the published proposals – which include officially mandated spelling lists – were so prescriptive they denied teachers the scope to exercise their professional judgment.

The Amendments replace the risk-based approach mandated in the 1977 Amendments with a prescriptive, technology-based approach requiring that maximum achievable control technology (MACT) be applied to all major industrial sources of 189 hazardous air pollutants.