Sentences with phrase «based around the policy»

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The Ethics Resource Center is an Arlington, Virginia - based non-profit that provides among other things, updates on federal policy connected to business ethics, surveys on topics such as how the recession is impacting ethics, and links to other resources around the web.

Basing middle class economics around demand is going to lead to a raft of bad policies.

With more retirees around the world responsible for their own financial security, the countries that ranked the best had policies in place to ensure access to individual or work - based savings programs, according to David Goodsell, who directs investor research for Natixis.

After a number of years of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP), the increase in rates stopped for around 11 months until December 2016 when the Federal Reserve promised to increase interest rates by 25 basis points.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

I'm sure there's a lot of ink on these in today's papers, mainly around proposals to raise the retirement age (which we actually did two years ago, except the Trudeau government reversed it, but now evidence - based policy FTW, as the kids say).

In our March statement we indicated that our current monetary policy stance remained appropriate to achieve our 2 per cent inflation target on a sustainable basis by around the middle of 2018, whereas US authorities have now begun to tighten.

And while Canadians may take pride in more engagement in crisis issues affecting people around the world, when it comes to immigration, they take a practical view, overwhelmingly titling towards policy based that puts Canada's economic needs before humanitarian considerations:

Yields on 90 - day bank bills had risen by around 25 basis points ahead of the change in the target and rose further after, indicating expectations of some further tightening of policy in the months ahead (Graph 51).

This was assumed by most people until quite recent times, but around 1980 a series of policies were put in place on a global basis, the purpose of which was to reduce the capacity of political bodies to control economic actors.

Publically state it, tell others around you to follow suit, vote on policies based upon your tomato belief, etc.... then expect to be rightfully challenged on it.

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

Just like the moneysupermarket website, the moneysupermarket app is effortless to navigate around and offers a clear breakdown of what the different policies offer and the difference in price between making a single payment and opting to pay on a monthly basis.

All around the world, political office holders are judged, celebrated or crucified based on their capacity to drive their own policy.

Labour's focus on campaigning on rail fares, then, is essentially a policy offer based around political popularity which would benefit better - off voters, possibly in marginal constituencies.

Far too often it seems like the phrase «evidence - based policy» is thrown around but then politicians sometimes disregard academic studies that disagree with their own opinions.

It was on the basis of this illusion that his aspiration was supported in 2015 and his policies, silence, actions and inactions were supported and blames passed on aides all with the hope that eventually he will come around.

We need a government next time which bases its policy - making around people and normal everyday lives, and also a government that treats the electorate with respect and not with the utter contempt which the present government and its most vocal ministers appear to have towards fellow human beings.

Reactions are already rolling in from around various corners of New York, but most groups for now say that at least on a policy basis, state residents won't be impacted.

Labour would design our immigration policy around the needs of the economy based on fair rules and the reasonable management of migration.

There's the example I used in my column: the party's drive towards property ownership is based around more and more spending, and implicitly critiques Thatcher - era policies such as the Right to Buy.

Her vision is of an America that works for everyone with no one left out, a government that restores trust and builds peace at home and around the world, a government with a foreign policy based not on warfare, an America with a trusted and respected government that delivers outstanding services to us all and our government is a trusted and respected partner throughout the world.

Plaid's approach is based around a rejection of the austerity policies, which the coalition government has followed for the past five years.

The previous contract, for $ 32 million, was held by Pearson, an international education company based in London that has become a lightning rod in education policy around the country.

The Conservatives do, of course, have an economic policy - based around creating the room for sustainable interest rate cuts - and yesterday we called for it to be articulated.

While policy - level discussions about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

Lead researcher Aylin Ulman, recently based at the Sea Around Us, and her team call for urgent action from policy - makers to ensure the future sustainability of the fishing industry in this archipelago nation.

Policymakers around the world have become increasingly open to shaping policies based on ecological findings, and ecologists have been pressing to make their work even more relevant and useful to decision - makers.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

We support the consensus - based, bipartisan energy code provision contained in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which strengthens national model codes that are already certified, adopted and in - use by 44 states and several localities around the U.S.

Other movies based around historical figures or events are Thirteen Days (about the Cuban Missile Crisis), Malcolm X (depicting the assassination of an African - American religious figure and activist) and Gandhi (the man whose non-violent protest policies eventually liberated India from the British Empire).

Districts» and schools» organizational structures and long standing policies built around traditional seat - time metrics may be inhibiting their ability to move toward competency - based models.

Our study provides what we hope is just the beginning of a strong evidence base for understanding realistic budget and policy planning around personalized learning.

As evidenced by recent politics around the federal budget, those in Washington, DC, are stuck in debates that involve math that is not well understood even by those who need to vote on policies based on it.

Based around a website www.less-en.org, LessEn showcases best practice through events, campaigns and a current knowledge bank of case studies, policy summaries, energy efficiency products and building efficiency news.

Think tank 2020health's latest report on obesity, which looks at prevention measures around the world, has shown that school - based measures must be complimented by other local policies to be most effective.

«Stephanie Jones is a gifted researcher whose work on the effects of poverty and violence on social and emotional development has already influenced policy and practice around bullying prevention and comprehensive school - based interventions,» Dean Kathleen McCartney said.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

(May 6, 2013)-- Today, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, announced the selection of 20 new partners from around the country who will host the fifth cohort of the SDP Fellowship.

On some occasions, schools have devised an online safety policy based on assumptions around what the threats are, rather than seeking this information from their pupils.

It's still possible at a fairly high level of abstraction to join moderate liberals and moderate conservatives around some key principles of education reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitments.»

It draws from the research base in educational leadership preparation to propose a series of recommendations to improve current state policy and school leadership preparation program (SLPP) practices around the recruitment and selection of aspirant principal candidates.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

Tuck, who supported the lawsuit and was heavily opposed by the teachers» unions, said he still believes the state needs «more rational policies around tenure and seniority - based layoffs,» but those would not be his first priorities were he to win.

The Center on the Developing Child's diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science - based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change.

For instance, if an employee is interacting with a training module based around company policies, their progress, social sharing, assessment results, and other relevant date that is being generated throughout the eLearning course is referred to as «big data.»

«The bad news is we're not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,» said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida - based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

The group gave each state an A through F rating based on the number and success of policies that match StudentsFirst's priorities around topics such as charter schools and teacher evaluations.

In almost every state in the United States, and in many countries around the world, there is serious policy and political focus on standards - based reform and the use of increasingly «high - stakes» assessments for students and, in turn, for educators responsible for student performance.

Presenters at this forum will share evidence - based strategies for aligning systems and policies around student and workforce needs, as well as opportunities within policy at various levels to promote structured and supportive pathways to postsecondary and workforce credential attainment.