Sentences with phrase «leave policies and research»

The 2008 edition of the International Review of Parental Leave Policies and Research, produced by the International Network on Leave Policies and published for the Network by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), is now available online.

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«If a business eliminates pollution controls in the workplace, you [may] have an increase in industrial accidents,» says Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy Instpolicy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy InstPolicy Institute.

New research published this summer by economists Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in the American Economic Journal found that policies that increased maternity leave did little to increase children's future educational achievement.

The left - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research noted the other day that the share of the prime working - age population with jobs is still below where it was in December 2007.

«This policy would be more macro-economically stimulative because of who the beneficiary is,» says Marshall Steinbaum, research director at the left - leaning Roosevelt Institute, and one of the authors of the report.

LONDON (MNI)- The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee will leave policy on hold at next week's meeting but that this would only mark a brief pause in tightening, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said FPolicy Committee will leave policy on hold at next week's meeting but that this would only mark a brief pause in tightening, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said Fpolicy on hold at next week's meeting but that this would only mark a brief pause in tightening, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said Friday.

C. Provide research and information to citizen advocate groups on the process for obtaining «leave to participate» in governmental proceedings, public policy development and rule - making in the communications arena.

The shift to longer, dedicated, paid father leave, has also been recommended by leading researchers, including Margaret O'Brien, Professor of Child and Family Policy, University College London and Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UK.

International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2013.

Because of the overwhelming research, and our advocacy for infants and toddlers, Attachment Parenting International is in full support of strong parental leave policies, similar to those in many countries around the world.

«Ukip's ideal seats share key characteristics: they have lots of «left behind» voters who we also know from our research are the most receptive to Ukip and its policies.

I have argued this case in a range of contexts from multiple Next Left posts to academic articles in Public Policy Research and British Politics.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Nancy Rankin, the vice president for policy, research, and advocacy at the Community Service Society, a leading advocate for the legislation, said her group estimates that 350,000 workers will be left out of the bill as a result of increasing the threshold from five to 15 workers.

Chris Magee, head of policy at the pressure group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) in London, tells ScienceInsider that withholding information does not help scientists and their work, because it leaves a «vacuum that activists can fill in with misleading information.»

Kass left the council in September and currently is a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, where his office is a few paces from Lynne Cheney's.

People will enter knowing, Freeman proposes, that when their support ends in a few years, the also - rans must leave academic research and move on to other types of work, preferably using their scientific knowledge, in industry, government, patent law, science policy, high - school or community college teaching or other fields.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

'' [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.»

The answer: The relative lack of workplace «packages» of policies such as paid sick time, paid vacation, flexible work hours and paid maternal or parental leave, said co-researcher Matthew Andersson, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University and formerly a researcher at Yale University's Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course.

The three CINAR fellows are: Gareth Lawson (2nd left), an associate scientist in the Biology Department; Porter Hoagland (middle), a senior research specialist in the Marine Policy Center; and Rubao Ji (at right), an associate scientist in the Biology Department.

Left to right: John P. Holdren, Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, and Ernst - Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program and the first Secretary General of the European Research Council.

For example, achieving and sustaining progress toward the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) will require more and better - quality research on the policy and community contexts of reform.

I tried to leave a few times, but I quickly realized that there are a lot of policy and research organizations out there but few that are really doing path - breaking, nonpartisan, and really pragmatic work.

You have immersed yourself in rigorous discussion of policy, and the exhaustive review of the research and evidence that underlies all of the challenges that we face, and points toward all of the work that we have left to do.

The work by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) on the No Child Left Behind Act, high - school exit examinations, and other education policies uses exactly the same research methodologies as those employed by the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures (controlled by both political parties), and other entities.

IEP Director and Professor Fernando Reimers included Wood's book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, as one of the readings for his Education Policy and Research in Comparative Perspective course.

Why Netflix's Parental Leave Policy is Good For Babies TIME, 8/5/15» «We have decades of research that tells us how important it is that a bond is established between parents and young children beginning at birth,» says Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

But supporters of the state's third grade reading policy say other research shows students who leave third grade behind in reading likely won't ever catch up and are much more likely to drop out.

They are «both feeling the pressure and willing to think about doing new things,» said Jane Hannaway, director of education policy at the Urban Institute, a left - leaning research group.

CEPA performs research on teacher labor markets about the factors that lead teachers to join and leave districts as well as the impacts of policies intended to encourage the retention of quality teachers.

Money flowed to policy groups on the right and left, funding research by scholars of varying political persuasions who promoted the idea of common standards.

As debates heat up over Common Core standards, the renewal of the No Child Left Behind Act and state testing policies, we often hear people citing research to buttress their point of view.

NEFW was co-created by AAE and the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) because labor unions like the NEA don't inform their members of their legal rights to opt - out of membership, leaving millions of teachers and other employees completely unaware that they have options.

Four years ago, in a meeting with the CTNewsJunkie editorial board, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made the outrageous, nonsensical claim that teachers leaving the profession had nothing to do with such punitive policies, and when provided with research to the contrary his reply was silence and a determination to stay his clearly detrimental course.

Joda Thongnopnua, center, David Morton, left, and Jackie Homann work at the Metro Ideas project, and independent nonprofit start up that is rethinking the traditional policy research model.

Schools Week reported the release of research by think tank Policy Exchange and the Association of School and College Leaders last week which showed one in four teachers who leave the classroom are women in their 30s.

Based on their research, authors identify 15 high - leverage policies and strategies (see sidebar) for federal, state, and district officials to consider in order to ensure that teachers lead, rather than leave the profession.

From 2006 to 2013, Kate worked at Achieve, beginning as a policy analyst and leaving an associate director, leading a range of policy, research, and communications projects to support states» college - and career - ready agendas.

You will want to do a little research and select the right one that meets your needs as well as compliments any other policies, trusts or other benefits you are leaving behind to your loved ones.

If you decide to leave your pet at a shelter please do your research and find a shelter with a no - kill policy.

Late in 2006 the «Institute for Public Policy Research», a grandly - titled and extravagantly - funded pressure group in the UK, first proposed that the international Left should from then on declare that the science of «global warming» was settled.

Lamont's office of Academic Affairs & Diversity also supports women in science by offering family leave policies for Lamont research professors and paid maternity leave for full - time postdocs at Lamont; promoting a more diverse applicant pool for job openings; enhancing the visibility of women through special events; and increasing awareness by regularly distributing information on social science research to the Lamont staff.

If governments were determined to implement their climate policies, a lot of that carbon would have to be left in the ground, says Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organisation, and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, part of the London School of Economics.

Katrina may or may not have been caused by global worming, but two facts are self evident; one — that taking risks with continued abuse of nature till the abuse is proven guilty may not be a wise policy guaranteed to leave a safe globe for future generations, and, two — intensive research on cause and effects of global worming and on the remedial steps to sustain life harmonious with nature are, today, priority ONE for mankind.

if you went to a cardiologist and there were no engineers, the cardiologist would tell you of an irregular heartbeat and say sorry there is nothing we can do.really an absurd arguement... keep talking about the money and remember: «The US Government has spent more than $ 79 billion of taxpayers» money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, blah blah blah and you know where this came from so i leave out the note peace, rich

Now that the scholarly and ultimately public value of having research and scholarship openly circulating from within a year of publication is being treated as a universal right, it raises a question about whether such a right should not be left up to the patchwork of funding agency and philanthropy policies.

Localism was fast becoming the new fashion in progressive politics, championed by think - tanks such as Policy Exchange on the right and the Institute for Public Policy Research on the left.

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