Sentences with phrase «systems policy project»

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In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

Intended to influence the two - party system constructively, the Disinterested Party would serve «as the organized and effective agency of progressive policies conceived and projected only for the well - being of the whole body politic,» and it would be «protected against decadence by its renunciation of officeholding and patronage.»

Mr Djibril Drame, a Resource Person at the launch of the project said it was aimed at providing guidance to food chain actors, government and private sector on appropriate food packaging systems including food packaging, materials, equipment and an enabling policy and regulatory framework.

Williams also plans to take key roles in the LIRR's Third Track project, implementing the county's ethics policies and fixing what she called Nassau's «broken» property tax assessment system.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

So, yes, dictatorships, in some circumstances, are unique in increasing the efficiency of governance by reducing delays in the formulation and implementation of policies due to the absence of the need for consensus and endless debates to implement projects or policy and the unique ability to calibrate complete legal systems by decree and even an ability to stay focused over long periods, accelerating economic development.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

For the first time in a major government project, officials set up systems and processes while details of the policy were still being worked out.

The knowledge system in schools is ultimately a normative standard that can only be understood in a social and historical context,» explains Lucien Criblez, the overall manager of the SNSF project and since 2008 Professor of Education at the University of Zurich with a focus on historical education research and analysis of education policies.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

As with the one - child policy, though, the systems scientists entrusted with studying the Three Gorges Dam devoted little time to consulting people whom the project would affect most.

About Site - The Marijuana Policy Project is working to end marijuana prohibition and replace it with a system in which marijuana is regulated similarly to alcohol.

The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) and the World Data System partnered on a project to inform policies to promote open data for science

About Blog The Marijuana Policy Project is working to end marijuana prohibition and replace it with a system in which marijuana is regulated similarly to alcohol.

He is currently working on two projects: In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction; and The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress.

Allan Odden, principle investigator of the teacher compensation project for the Consortium on Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, studied the system and the teacher response.

A 1999 study by the Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis and University of Tennessee at Knoxville found that students using the Co-nect program, which emphasizes project - based learning and technology, improved test scores in all subject areas over a two - year period on the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System.

Currently, he is working on two projects: The Chastened Dream, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress; and In Search of Deeper Learning, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Cambridge, MA (October 5, 2015)-- On October 5, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will release findings from the Best Foot Forward project, an initiative testing whether video technology can help address the challenges faced by teachers and school leaders in implementing classroom observations that are part of teacher evaluation systems.

«If you have choice without civil rights policies, it stratifies the system,» said Gary Orfield, the co-director of the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A., a research organization that recently published a study hailing the benefits of integrated schools.

Partnering in Education Research Summit Fellows will participate in an annual conference hosted by the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR), which brings together system leaders and leading researchers to brainstorm new research projects.

A policy report from The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability, The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and The National Center for Public Policyand Higher Education

His work with parents to establish online student accounts now serves as the model for Apple's U13 policy and his latest project will utilize the 3D virtual and augmented reality system, zSpace, in STEM labs.

Since 2001, Crowe has worked on projects related to teacher quality policy for the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), and with the public higher education systems of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) on teacher preparation projects, and on research on the cost of teacher turnover; as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and to the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality; has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership.

He has extensive experience in state higher education policy, with the Office of the President of the University of North Carolina system, as senior staff to the state higher education coordinating board in Arkansas, and as senior manager of a statewide math and science education reform project funded by the National Science Foundation.

She is currently Director of the Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Malaysia and is leading a major research project focusing on leadership policy and leadership practice in seven systems in Asia

Dr. Lachlan has more than a decade of experience conducting policy, practice and systems change projects in education at the federal, state and district levels.

The school - to - prison pipeline phenomenon that has been a major topic of discussion in education circles in recent years is defined as a result of policies that encourage a police presence at schools, harsh tactics such as extreme physical restraint, zero - tolerance policies and other automatic punishments that result in suspensions and out - of - class time, and other actions that could increase a student's chances of landing in the criminal justice system, according to Teaching Tolerance magazine, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Prior to the nonprofit organization, Anissa was a project coordinator at the University of Texas System Institute for Public School Initiatives working specifically with low - performing schools around the state of Texas providing training, coaching, instructional supports, grant coordination, school reviews, and policy guidance.

The project also includes links to dozens of resources from the 10 sites such as system overviews, detailed policies and guides for teachers.

Rodger, John Jackson, «'' New capitalism», colonisation and the neo-philanthropic turn in social policy: Applying Luhmann's systems theory to the Big Society project.»

Conducts policy research on the economic impact of transportation investments and disruptions to the transportation system for significant freight and highway projects, in coordination with the OST - P40 office.

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

Jack has more than 24 years of experience in information technology, including strategic planning, policy, alignment of technology with business, Capital Planning, Enterprise Architecture, application and systems development, mobile computing, project management, cybersecurity, IT and data center operations, and cloud services.

A Complete Streets policy incorporates safe and convenient walking and bicycling facilities into transportation projects; improves conditions and opportunities for walking, and bicycling; integrates walking and bicycling into transportation systems; and provide safe and convenient facilities for these modes.

an analysis of emerging and long - term projected trends, including economic and national trade policies, that will impact the performance, needs, and uses of the national surface transportation system, including the system to move freight;

Case studies are a study of persons, decisions, periods, events, projects, institutions, policies, or further systems that are studied holistically by one or more ways.

This type of informed legislation, along with programs like the Community Cats Projects, which are operating in four cities, not only facilitate the establishment of no - kill sheltering policies, they directly address the long - term objective of creating sustainable no - kill communities, where the community as a whole is an extension of a lifesaving shelter system, and the public is a partner in ensuring the safety of all animals.

RUAF organises staff training courses on this topics around the world, including modules on the analysis of urban food systems, multi-stakeholder policy design and action planning, gender mainstreaming, participatory project planning, and monitoring and evaluation.

The Week That Was: 2017-12-02 (December 2, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President 38.5 Years of Data: Using atmospheric data collected by satellites from January 1979 to June 2017, John Christy and Richard McNider of the Earth System Science Center at the...

We acknowledge the ESF IMCOAST project (Impact of climate induced glacial melting on marine coastal systems in the Western Antarctic Peninsula region, www.imcoast.org) and the SDD - BIANZO (Biodiversity of three representative groups of the Antarctic Zoobenthos: coping with change) project (Belgian science policy) for financial support.

Under a FIT policy — and to support grid operators in balancing renewable energy generation with system demand — project developers can be required to provide project forecasts.

Speakers: Robert Stavins, Professor and Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Harvard University; Kelly Gallagher, Professor and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University; Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Timmons Roberts, Professor and Director, Climate and Development Lab, Brown University Moderator: Nathan Hultman, Director, Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland

Robert Stavins, Professor and Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Harvard University; Kelly Gallagher, Professor and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University; Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Timmons Roberts, Professor and Director, Climate and Development Lab, Brown University

The Botswana policy paper on urban agriculture assigns a critical role to farmer education through the production of books, brochures, posters, and community level demonstration projects and advocates for the integration of urban agriculture into the formal training and education system (e.g. agricultural colleges, technical schools).

This publication documents thirteen case studies from city regions around the world which are developing City Region Food System (CRFS) projects, programmes, and policies, including those related to the prevention, reduction and management of food waste.