Sentences with phrase «based policy measures»

The report also recommends a set of evidence - based policy measures to address this issue.

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Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

One CEO expressed caution about drastic policy measures based on high fuel prices.

«Some of the recent policy measures taken by China's authorities in the markets have been quite puzzling and it hasn't really increased confidence among foreign investors,» said Karine Hirn, Hong Kong - based partner of Swedish group East Capital, a $ US3.5 billion fund management firm.

A rise in crude oil prices and a rebound in base metal prices, both partly related to the announcement of new policy stimulus measures in several countries, account for much of the recent movement.

As a proxy for political uncertainty I used the popular Economic Policy Uncertainty indexes, measures based on real - time news flow.

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

Although interpretation of earnings data remains difficult, due to methodological differences in the construction of the various measures (for details see Box A, Statement on Monetary Policy, February 2002), the rebound is evident in both national accounts and financial reporting - based estimates.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

And in the current educational - policy environment — in which accountability, based on empirical data, is valued so highly — if you can't clearly identify and measure skills, it's hard to convince people to take them seriously.

It showed that 20 countries have enacted laws, decrees or other legal enforceable measures, 27 have enacted many of the Code's provisions as law, 21 countries have implemented the entire Code as a voluntary measure or as a national policy and another 22 are currently drafting regulations based on the International Code and Resolutions.

Such measures indicated a move away from a media policy based on the idea of consensus, as the new government came to consider media policy a zero - sum game in which conflict became the main rule.

The budget would include measures to restore fiscal discipline and good economic governance, transparent and accountable use of public resources in accordance with the new Public Financial Management Law and to provide a credible basis for economic policy clarity going forward, the statement added.

The Board of Regents, which sets education policy, has also asked the Legislature for $ 2.1 million for other anticheating measures, including an analysis of erasures on answer sheets, and steps toward computer - based testing.

Though he's had an at - times difficult relationship with the left of the Democratic base, Cuomo on the convention floor sought to play up areas of commonality on policy, touting the push for the $ 15 minimum wage and 12 weeks of paid family leave — both measures that were approved in New York earlier this year (with, by the way, the Republicans in control of the state Senate).

The Yonkers Democrat vowed to back an increase in education spending and touted her conference's opposition to education policy measures that sought to link teacher evaluations to Common Core - based test results.

«By appropriately measuring how much ill comes with the blessings of a strong agricultural cycle, our work highlights the need for evidence - based policies across the globe,» Rangel said.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

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Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

«We must be well prepared for the future, and national drought policies which are based on realistic vulnerability assessments and that have effective early warning systems and risk mitigation measures will be vital,» Barbut stressed.

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.

The May 23 conference at the Urban Institute, a think tank based here in the nation's capital, examined the policy implications for value - added statistical designs, which typically measure students» learning gains from one year to the next.

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 # 3 million investment will also include funding to further develop the Welsh Government's policy for more able and talented learners, ensuring that any future measures are based on the most reliable evidence.

Think tank 2020health's latest report on obesity has shown that school - based measures must be complimented by other local policies to be most effective.

Dr. Kurt Beron, a UT Dallas professor of economics and public policy, and Dan O'Brien, UT Dallas economics lecturer, worked with comptroller staff to develop new academic outcome measures based on scores from standardized tests.

Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.

Recent policy debate has centered on defining measures of teacher quality, including student outcomes, and structuring incentives for teachers based on performance.

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.

Test - based accountability policies have demonstrated unequivocally that what gets measured matters.

Critics, including many teachers unions and some policy experts, say the method is based on flawed tests that don't measure the more intangible benefits of good teaching and lead to a narrow curriculum.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Education strongly pressured states to adopt controversial policies expanding charter schools and measuring teacher effectiveness on the basis of student test scores.

Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation of educator effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.

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.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

Although measuring outcomes rather than inputs has been the expressed intention of standards - based reforms for at least two decades, policy changes that make that shift real have been slow to come to fruition.

But according to Mathematica, policy assessments based on raw test data is extremely misleading — especially because year - to - year comparisons measure different groups of students.

To complicate matters, over the course of the 20th century, states began using time - based measures — called instructional, clock, or contact hours — in a number of other state policy areas, such as minimum requirements for educational programs, school approval standards, and formulas for distributing state funding.11 Moreover, depending on the specific school design and the particular state context, high school innovators can encounter a wide range of other friction points.

Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student growth measures in teacher evaluation ratings.

The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on measured student achievement.

Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance — has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be measured by subjective assessments?

An official with the Chicago - based National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) told Policy Watch this week that, to the organization's knowledge, no other U.S. state has approved a proposal like House Bill 800, a measure one Democrat likened to creating «de facto, segregated private schools» last week.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

quality is deduced based on these indicators — profitability, profit growth, low risk in terms of return - based measures and stability of earnings, and high payout and / or conservative investment policy, and therefore can be measured and analyzed.

Canceling the policy cancels the debt — and produces income measured by the $ 7,000 difference between the loan balance and Sanders» basis in the policy.