Sentences with phrase «change public practice»

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The Declaration affirms: «Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance» (Article 18).

Meanwhile, in South Korea, so far the only country to have reversed the trend in sex ratios at birth, normative changes related to public policies apparently worked after banning the practice made matters even worse.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

«My bias has not changed, but in the interests of patients, I need to see past my own opinions and look at the whole picture of the appropriate blend of science, good practice, and the viewpoints of the general public that will inevitably steer their rehabilitation in a good or bad direction.»

The suit seeks unspecified damages as well as changes in hiring practices to include reference checks and public searches.

An outstanding policy briefing paper Understanding Fatherhood in the 21st Century A Policy Briefing Paper for Northern Ireland written by Colin Shaw and Maria Lohan summarises the research evidence to support father involvement and makes a series of recommendations for changes in public policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers today.

• We help employers and public services to change, by providing them with information, advice and training; by assessing and evaluating their policies and practice; and by piloting new practice.

A Peaceful Revolution is a blog about innovative ideas to strengthen America's families through public policies, business practices, and cultural change.

* Issue 40, Mar - May 2006 Insert 1 - WABA Annual Summary Report for 2005 Insert 2 - Attitudes Can Change: Supporting Mothers and Their Babies in Public Nursing Insert 3 - Announcement: Breastfeeding Advocacy and Practice Course Insert 4 - From the desk of Ted Greiner, WABA Research Task Force Coordinator

Work together towards systemic change by educating public officials, institutions and the community about policies and practices that promote, protect and support breastfeeding.

In a review of U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, interventions to change hospital or WIC policies, including enhanced practices and services, were among the public health approaches found to successfully improve breastfeeding outcomes among minority women (9).

They say parts of the law «are out of step with best practices and fall short of the expectations for ourselves as public servants,» and changes should be made part of a continuing resolution or omnibus bill, along with adequate funding.

The changes to be made will be a revision of the code of practice, revising which public bodies can use Ripa and making sure that authorisation comes from the most upper echelons of government.

At 10 a.m., members of New York Communities for Change, Alliance for Quality Education, Public School Parents «call out Families for Excellent Schools» reports and ads that promote racist discipline practices, and criminalize Black and Latino children by playing fast and loose with facts,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The talking points attack the Democratic platform of public financing for elections, changes to state abortion law that opponents say would open the door to regulations that could greatly expand the practice's surgical parameters, as well as the Dream Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to utilize state tuition assistance programs.

He urged the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to embark on an extensive public education to aid behavioural change towards waste management practices.

It added, «Public scrutiny is a prerequisite for changing harmful, entrenched practices.

During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication, public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.

In one sign of the change, the Center for Global Development, an influential Washington, D.C. - based think tank, has convened a panel of economists, consultants and representatives from industry and public health to make recommendations for forecasting practices.

Hess, J. J., J. Z. McDowell, and G. Luber, 2012: Integrating climate change adaptation into public health practice: Using adaptive management to increase adaptive capacity and build resilience.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to raising public awareness about nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, a vital element of today's medical practice that adds an additional dimension to diagnosis, changing the way common and devastating diseases are understood and treated and helping provide patients with the best health care possible.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

He said he believes such journalism is important because it holds tech companies up to high standards, who in the process of believing, and often genuinely implementing, positive change in the world, can be blinded to the fact that some of their practices are disagreeable to the public.

Remember, part of what helps companies change practices is public interest in an issue, so blog posts and public discussion can help push companies to adopt better practices.

Despite these large numbers — which indicate a huge systemic change — and despite the long - standing practice of social promotion in public schools, the rationale for holding students back seemed readily apparent to many parents.

As a result, these future change - makers miss an opportunity to influence public opinion and shape practice at a significantly larger scale.

For all the True Believer energy and aggressive efforts to push an agenda, it remains difficult to discern the impact of Edutopia, either in winning converts to its vision for public education or changing the classroom practice of individual teachers.

In fact, Moe concludes that incremental change in school governance and practice is the best option both because of the clear preferences of the American public and the low risk attached to staging change over time.

In sum, clear majorities of uninformed respondents want their districts to spend more, but when respondents are told current expenditure levels, they take those amounts into account — an indication that public thinking on expenditures would change if residents were better informed about actual fiscal practices in their schools.

In a terrific white paper for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Kingsland makes a compelling case that NOLA's system of chartering, thanks to conscientious changes in policy and practice, is far fairer than the previous model.

Still, in an era when educators and parents alike question the testing practices that exist in the nation's public schools, the law has the potential to drive change.

When so many thousands of complex institutions are spread across thousands of jurisdictions, the challenges of politics, resources, talent, and implementation are profound, and all the more so when what's being changed contains as many ingrained practices, hidebound regulatory regimes, and vested interests as public schooling.

The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).

When the Charter Schools Act of New York State was passed in 1998, one of the key components called for these schools to be innovators of both practice and school culture in order to create change to help fix the larger, broken public school system.

He goes on to say, «This is all a public space, we all should be sharing our best practices and being willing to change or make alterations as needed.

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I ask not that public school special educators and administrators circumvent special education guidelines and laws but that they approach the process with their brains and put their hearts in their practices to allow for positive changes in special education.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.

good practice would be to have a comparability study to forecast the apparent decreases and help explain the changes to students and parents and the public when the results are released.

Using Data For Meaningful Change online course is available at Public Consulting Group - Education and contains updated content and fresh perspectives on best practices related to teachers» use of classroom use of data and continuous improvement.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Claire has developed innovative programs and practices for diverse populations of new learners of English in various New York City public schools and as Executive Director of Internationals Network, works to create appropriate educational opportunities for new and changing immigrant populations.

The proposed charter school funding change would no longer allow for the practice of some districts keeping supplemental property taxes or sales tax revenue that's distributed using the ad valorem method for traditional public schools within their own taxing jurisdiction.

Give teachers the support and resources they need to lead collaborations with their peers and hold public conversations about changes to existing policy and practice grounded in their experiences with blended learning initiatives.

Articles like this one do not reflect the reality of our compliance practices and they completely ignore the larger mission of CCSA Advocates, which is to build political will for positive changes in the public education system that will help all students succeed.

The program provides access to sound educational research and practice in the context of the changing demographics of our public schools.

Jim Gavelek and I adapted Rom Harré's (1984) work to detail the conversational spaces in which the curriculum is appropriated and transformed, made public; and sometimes changes to that curriculum become new conventional practices (Gavelek & Raphael, 1996, see Figure 3).

The report found that «widespread public awareness of the damage caused by the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, coupled with effective grass - roots organizing by parents, teachers, students and their allies, is increasingly producing positive changes in state and district testing practices.»

In the future, GO Public Schools Oakland will continue working to ensure OUSD adopts fiscally responsible policies and best practices, develops one strategic financial plan, and engages school leaders to partner in systems changes to benefit students.