Sentence examples for top mandates from inspiring English sources

He wrote about his continuing commitment to a "spirit of flexibility," flexibility that is completely lacking in Race to the Top mandates.

Some of the states that were unlucky enough to win Race to the Top mandates made little or no gains or lost ground [Emphasis added].

All this, of course, is being done in the name of achieving Common Core Standards and satisfying Race to the Top mandates.

And the tests, moreover, have become, overnight, absurdly harder, guaranteeing the kids' failure and that of their teachers, whose job ratings, thanks to Race to the Top mandates, are tied to them.

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Mr. Obama has repeatedly said that he would much prefer a market-based cap-and-trade system to top-down mandates from the E.P.A.

"Making 'No Child' Better" (editorial, Feb. 5) misses the point that the No Child Left Behind law is founded on faulty assumptions of top-down mandates, zero tolerance, narrow forms of assessment, and privatization.

Now Mr. Romney is taking his party back to its ideological roots by emphasizing a lesser role for Washington, replacing top-down mandates with a belief in market mechanisms.

Indeed, the authors of this meta-analysis concluded that narrow approaches (e.g., dissemination; top-down mandates), which were nearly 60% of efforts reviewed, were "clearly not effective" (Henderson et al. 2011).

But, why endorse Idaho's grandiose top-down mandates for virtual instruction?

Through our top-down mandates and ubiquitous talk of "accountability," we are discouraging teachers from fostering creativity and innovation in their own classrooms.