Sentences with phrase «addressing policy gaps»

SACE remains hopeful SPARCC can serve as a pathway towards addressing policy gaps caused by the limitations of current energy efficiency and home weatherization programs.

A recent report form the Texas Teaching Commission addressing policy gaps within key areas of the teacher pipeline in Texas.

This special issue brief from the Center for Great Teachers & Leaders at the American Institutes of Research is a first step in addressing these policy gaps by offering state education leaders an overview of the current policy landscape, its implications for CTE teacher effectiveness, and next steps for creating aligned and coherent human capital management policies.

Not exact matches

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

This policy leaves significant gaps, however, since it does not address certain avenues of spending, including:

In this chapter, we focus on recent research related to home visitation programs» identification and response to maternal depression, identify gaps in this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitation.

Mark Levine, Council Member - elect, Manhattan «This agreement heralds a new era for the City Council and for the city at large — a time of activist progressive policy - making to address the growing gap of inequality here.

It addresses (at least partially) the gap which has opened up between the formal political and policy making system and its publics.

However, these findings do suggest that policy initiatives could alleviate pressure on emergency departments by addressing gaps in the provision of dental and mental health care in order to treat this group of emergency department visitors at a lower cost elsewhere.

To address this care gap, a team of researchers lead by Alison Buttenheim PhD, MBA, an Assistant Professor of Nursing and an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, evaluated the feasibility and impact of different interventions aimed at increasing the number of vaccinated caregivers.

«The findings from the current study not only address a gap in the literature, but also have potentially important policy implications for countries like Ghana that have not implemented iron supplementation or fortification as part of anemia control programs in part due to the joint recommendation from the WHO and UNICEF.

In their Commentary, the authors propose a concerted effort by scientists, food producers, policy makers, and regulatory groups to address the fiber gap.

The grants fund innovative research studies to address key knowledge gaps and emerging research inquiries related to urologic patient care, workforce development and healthcare policy.

But if we are to adopt sound policies to address such a gap, we need to understand its underlying causes.

However, if raising overall test - score performance and addressing the achievement gap are to be the main focus of federal policy, it is foolish to have a panoply of programs that direct state and local officials toward a host of other priorities, distracting them from their core mission.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

Meanwhile, policies that focus on stopping charter schools from «counseling out» student with disabilities are unlikely to be effective because they do not address the factors that are truly underlying the gap.

-- Learning Policy Institute Districts are increasingly tasked with providing options for at - risk and underserved student populations to address persistent achievement gaps.

It will also help to address the persistent achievement gap between Latinos and their white counterparts a gap that threatens our state's future social and economic stability by encouraging policies and programs that lead to increased educational equity.

While a good number of schools / districts have already addressed this issue through a shift in policies and practices, the knowing - doing gap is still alive and well.

Yet, while NACSA's principles and standards document addresses special education, the new report has a notable gap in that it does not include examination of state charter policies related to students with disabilities.

A panel of education experts debated whether a focus on achievement gaps for disadvantaged students has turned attention away from others and explored how changes in policy could address both concerns.

The findings also acknowledged that schools in poorer communities face unique academic challenges that result in an achievement gap and need to be addressed; a desire to learn more about serving special needs students and funding those services; and the necessity for policies to recruit and retain highly effective teachers.

This session will address meaningful practices, policies, and procedures that school boards and school leaders can utilize in eradicating achievement gaps that plagues many low - income, and students of color.

Addressing Practical and Technical Challenges when Measuring Achievement Gaps: Implications for Practice and Policy Chair: Yeow Meng Thum, Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)

Georgia State has done a lot of work to close gaps, and administrators seem to recognize it is incumbent on them to address services and supports, not change their admission policies.

Yet given that achievement gaps are present in schools that are both high - and low - performing overall, a policy that restricts subgroup accountability to an arbitrary number or a percentage of schools — such as only the lowest - performing schools in a state — is not enough to address existing achievement disparities.

«Academies, reading, teachers «progress, IT underused and evidence ignored» Professor Robert Cassen, expert in social policy and social exclusion at the LSE, on some policy challenges emerging from Ofsted «s annual report Academies Addressing the social achievement gap needs many initiatives, including some for school improvement.

More - importantly, the movement must address its own divides, especially between centrist Democrat, civil rights - oriented, and conservative reformers who disagree over such basic fundamentals as whether the achievement gaps that trap half of our children into poverty and prison should be addressed in policy and practice.

To make substantial progress on closing overall achievement gaps, policies to address disparities in outcomes within school districts are still needed.

We can even review a policy that you acquired elsewhere and see if there might be gaps in your coverage that should be addressed, or if you're paying too much.

The personal property insurance section of homeowners and renters policies has two very distinct coverage gaps that every policyholder should understand and address to make certain their property is covered sufficiently:

The wider investigative goal I proposed to ProPublica is to expose «reality gaps» in descriptions of clean - energy technologies and policies (not to mention policies of those saying the fossil - fuel status quo is just fine) and point to under - addressed opportunities to cut vulnerability to climate - related hazards right now.

«We appreciate NYPSC addressing near term uncertainty in the market by passing this stop - gap measure, and we urge the Commission to move quickly in establishing a more permanent solution until the new system [VDER Phase Two] is set,» said Brandon Smithwood, Policy Director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access.

In this notion, you break down the gap between the emissions level you want at some point in the future and the emissions level you will have at current rates of growth, and break it down into manageable fractions - wedges - that can each be addressed with specific policies.

They have, in some areas, left a policy gap which urgently needs to be addressed,» Deben argues.

The public policy forums provided an overview of ways health risk - based standards would address gaps in current rules for industrial facilities.

Canada's federal and provincial governments have failed to adequately address the gaps in immigration and labour policy that systematically discriminate and exploit migrant workers in Canada.

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Ultimately, they recommend addressing the gap through collection and dissemination of quality data that forms the evidentiary base for development of «responsive and effective policies.»

The personal property insurance section of homeowners and renters policies has two very distinct coverage gaps that every policyholder should understand and address to make certain their property is covered sufficiently:

If you notice that certain situations are not covered in your current policy, then you may have a gap that must be addressed.

Revised technology plans and policies to address technology gaps regarding security hardening methodology and virtualization leading to an «excellent» IT rating from the Federal Bank IT examiner for IT systems, processes, and compliance.

«As a health professional it beggars belief that COAG can meet on this, yet the Referendum Council work and Uluru outcome «Voice Treaty Truth» is not raised... It highlights that politicians and policy makers do not understand Closing the Gap is inextricably linked to Voice Treaty Truth... Structural reform is the missing ingredient in addressing disadvantage and the fact that no one at COAG acknowledged that shows they have no idea what they are doing.»

Importantly, the work being undertaken by scholars including Elissa Elvidge, Dr Mark Lock, Henrietta and Adrian Marrie and others is identifying critical gaps in institutional governance, policy and decision making processes, and proposing ways to address these gaps.

And this article in The Conversation argues that federal and state government policy directions are jeopardising Indigenous peoples» access to affordable and nutritious food, which is critical in addressing the health outcomes gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

If we're going to make any progress in closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, we're going to have to start addressing the gap that currently exists between the policies and procedures institutions put in place around cultural safety, and their practices and the lived experiences of Indigenous people in our hospitals and health services.

In this chapter, we focus on recent research related to home visitation programs» identification and response to maternal depression, identify gaps in this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitation.

Subsequent speeches will address issues ranging from the very serious problem of a lack of engagement with Indigenous peoples in policy making and significant failures in the whole of government machinery currently in operation federally; to the Northern Territory intervention and child abuse issues; to a positive vision for our communities such as by closing the gap in life expectancy, and creating an equal life chance for Indigenous children.