Sentences with phrase «based policy choices»

It calls for support for access to justice research in order to promote evidence - based policy choices.

Though home visiting programs have rapidly expanded across the country as an evidence - based policy choice for supporting families with young children, selecting an evidence - based model is not a guarantee of effectiveness.

A new report released yesterday by the Alliance for Early Success and Child Trends highlights home visiting programs as an important evidence - based policy choice for supporting families with young children.

Home visiting programs have rapidly expanded across the country as an evidence - based policy choice for supporting families with young children.

Not exact matches

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

Founded in 1908, GMA has a primary focus on product safety, science - based public policies and industry initiatives that seek to empower people with the tools and information they need to make informed choices and lead healthier lives.

It is abundantly clear from every other country that has developed policy in this area, that the proposed transferability of leave entitlements [4.5] will not result in significant opening up of choices for families, without leave for fathers being available on the same use - it - or - lose it basis that leave is available to mothers.

Good quality, evidence based information on the risks and benefits associated with infant feeding methods should inform government policy and enable parents to make an informed choice.

And far from wellbeing - based policy removing choice in people's lives, research has established that exercising autonomy is a fundamental factor in people's wellbeing.

Political fights will always break out, but now most policy choices are more likely to emerge based on the party with the majority than the power of the idea.»

It will, however, exclude you from interest - based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

In the national data represented in Table 2, this would include American Indians / Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians / Pacific Islanders, but each state should inform its policy choice based on the demographic composition of its own districts.

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

The authors use case studies of schools involved in such structural reforms as site - based management and choice to buttress their policy recommendations for achieving greater efficiency with limited school funding.

A pivotal issue for early - education policy is whether there is enough evidence to make a choice among the various child - centered and content - centered approaches, based on the long - term effects on children.

The school district had no choice but to let her go as a result of a policy dictating that teachers be laid off based on seniority, not according to performance.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

Such concerns have taken a backseat to the choice - based policies now in vogue, a paradigm shift best illustrated in the birth and demise of the once - promising Global Village Zone project.

Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and prachoice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and praChoice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice.

At a time of growing national recognition of the need for a policy shift to more successful approaches to school reform, this collection of mini-briefs identifies affirmative, research - based approaches to reform in areas including school choice, portfolio district reform, and teacher deprofessionalization.

Kirp notes that «politicians have made market sovereignty and parental choice the policy bywords,» and as a result, in Florida, for - profit and faith - based preschools enroll 88 percent of the state's four - year - olds.

The measure was based on the share of students attending schools of choice, the strength of charter laws in each state (including, of course, the strength of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge of parent influence on policy.

Whether your preferred policy solution is based on standards and accountability, parental choice, instructional reform, or something else, the better approach to reform is gradual and decentralized so that everyone can learn and adapt.

Choice policies are likely to produce more differentiated responses if accountability is mainly based on schools» ability to attract students.

For all of the authors» talk of creating efficiency, effectiveness, and equity in schools through market - based reforms, they ignore the issues that have been found with school choice policies.

In this movement, some researchers saw democracy in action as power devolved from the state to local schools, sometimes culminating in outside stakeholder involvement.147 Many contentions about site - based management, community control of schools, community schools, and school choice were based on democratic and communitarian theory.148 Some researchers and policy makers influenced by economic theory have begun to view the relationship between schools and communities differently.

Based on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentaBased on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentabased school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentality.

Our article based on this research was recently published in the American Journal of Education, «School Choice Policies and Racial Segregation: Where White Parents» Good Intentions, Anxiety, and Privilege Collide.

This collection of briefs from the National Education Policy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified proPolicy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified propolicy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified propolicy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified problems.

Walker's support for expanding choice and charter options is based on the view that competition creates a better product and that an education marketplace will improve all public schools, according to Walker policy director Ryan Murray.

It's appropriate to think about how we can maybe modernize existing programs, the education programs for military families to transition them into choice - based policies at the end of the day, no matter what population it is, but it's critical for military families who move so much.

As Lindsey described, a really good opportunity to rethink how the federal government supports the education of active - duty military families and to try to consider more choice - based, choice - friendly policies, so that these families do have that flexibility.

For example, low - and high - income parents both select schools based on school quality - but they use different measures of quality, according to a new study of school choice in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

However, where choice and competition are accompanied by other policies such as test - based accountability, the ability of schools to stand out from the pack may be lessened.

Based on my read of the research, school choice is a promising policy worth growing.

Through more than a decade of policy changes and course corrections, New Orleans has discovered a lot of the ways that a system based on giving parents choice can go wrong.

While choice policies have significantly grown in recent years, the vast majority of districts continue to assign students to a public school based on where they live.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

The Pennsylvania - based Commonwealth Foundation asked Jonathan Butcher, education director for the Goldwater Institute in Arizona and nationally - known expert on ESAs, for his expertise on this cutting edge school choice policy.

We both support expanding the range of educational options for families of modest means to include private and faith - based schools, but we do so because we believe parental choice is good education policy.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science - based nonprofit group working for a healthy environment and a safer world and combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

Yet, to purchase the best policy and get the most benefit, you should always talk to your Trusted Choice agent to help you decide whether gap insurance is worthwhile, based on your circumstances.

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-- Acknowledge that people with different values would have different policy choices even if the science was exactly the same and everybody accepted the science basis.

First, the policy goal should be to provide clean - energy choices that are no more expensive than today's carbon - based fuels.