Sentences with phrase «best policy models»

The best policy models can cope with a range of inputs.

But perhaps the biggest need is for a better policy modeling framework that employs a broader systems analysis, incorporates explicitly uncertainty and yields a clear path to a flexible, robust and economical outcome.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

The relationship between monetary policy and financial stability may depend on the specific economic conditions in which we find ourselves.6 Moreover, the processes resulting in financial cycles, with periods of unsustainable debt buildup, occasional crises and periods of deleveraging, are not well captured by standard models.7 We have more work to do before we can be fully confident about our conclusions.

Adaptability however is key to success and, since good governance requires the regular review of policies, ostensibly the OSC and other regulators would periodically assess the effectiveness of the «comply - or - explain» model, once adopted, to determine whether another approach is warranted.

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

By advocating for policy changes, the Council seeks to create an economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

In the consonance of their public policy proposals with the comprehensiveness of the process - relational vision, mutually transformed in its encounter with the natural sciences, Cobb and Birch model a public practical theology at its best.

«The Arizona immigration policy is a good model.»

Maine statute directed the committee to develop this model policy based on the current research and best practice guidelines from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other states» concussion management documents.

Using a world café model, groups discussed four questions: what are the common points of toxic stress within our region, how can we prevent the pile up of chronic and toxic stress on babies, how do we currently build the skills of adults in our region, and how can we work smarter and how can our policies better support our families and communities.

The Better Practices Model resource guide: Informing future researchers, policy makers and organizations.

The Monetary Policy Committee is quite a good model here.

In addition, the existence of marginalized communities in Western democratic societies, which stand as the pinnacle of the liberal democracy model, as well as some contested international policies of some democracies in recent history, have questioned the mythology of the liberal order in its current form as an aspiration of all peoples and the natural course of history.

Governor Cuomo's Regional Councils create a more efficient business model that empowers individual regions to determine what is best for their own communities and incentivizes thoughtful economic policies through competition.

«This translates into practical policies when Boris Johnson ridiculously announces that he will «unite» London against my policies «dividing» the city, when he is in fact attacking the policies that in 25 years in London have created among the best community relations in the world and which indeed may be taken as a model for many cities in the world,» he said.

He wasn't sure his models were good enough for policy decisions to be based on them.

«I sit at the intersection of scientific modeling [and] public policy — looking at how those models are applied in ranking alternative policy solutions — and then philosophy, where I look at questions of how good the models are and when they become good enough to drive public - policy decisions,» he says.

Rosa says she'll continue to pursue the use of their models to support better policy and management decisions.

Changes in mitigation models, he said, are the result of better understanding about how technologies penetrate markets and are spurred by public policy, not political pressure.

Although patients can not control air quality, Liu said, the findings provide evidence for policy makers and public health leaders to develop better models for monitoring and predicting climate changes so that patients can better protect themselves.

The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted driving by teens, exploring developmental states and changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating policy, legislation, and intervention.

However, Elliott Maxwell, author of a recent report from a business group that found the NIH policy is increasing access without harming publishers, said NIH's policy is a good model.

► In a policy forum in this week's STM, four physician scientists expressed concern that a recent «shift toward new models of medical education in which research plays a minimal role... threatens the quality of education received by our future biomedical workforce as well as the pipeline of physician - scientists — important consequences that have received little attention.»

Barthelemy says the model could also come in handy for estimating traffic delays, gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, so that urban planners and policy makers can better understand how those different factors evolve as a city grows.

Such models can also better inform the scoring of tax changes, as well as other models of policy, such as those used by the Federal Reserve to characterize how households respond to movements in interest rates.

«If efficacy of the mSMT pediatric adaptation is substantiated, there is not only the potential to drastically change the lives of children and adolescence with TBI, but clinical practice and policy as well,» remarked Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of neuropsychology, neuroscience and TBI research at Kessler Foundation, and director of the Northern New Jersey TBI Model System.

These hour - long virtual panel discussions are an efficient means to spotlight an emerging issue, a best practice / model, or a new policy.

PRISM can deliver the Government and the NDA's policy objectives at the best value for taxpayers» money through a flexible commercial model and in a highly competitive timeframe.

Having better economic models should increase confidence in projections of the effects of various policies, and greatly improve communication with climate modelers.

This suggests the climate models need to be retooled to better reflect conditions in the actual climate, while policies based on previous climate model output and predictions might need to be reconsidered.»

Drawing on her lifetime of love for fashion and a professional career in social services and policy work, Jacquie and her good, good friend of 18 years, Franklin Gutierrez, started Moesel Clothing with the goal to provide high quality and stylish clothing for kids through a model that would help support production and economic opportunity for skilled artisans in Peru.

When districts come to me to talk about developing the policies, I point to the work done at Kimmel Farm Elementary and the development of the Best Practices for Social Media Use as a model that can be replicated anywhere, at any level.

Difficulties arise when there is lack of consistency in the way that policies and procedures are viewed, and it is therefore essential for leaders and managers to take the lead and model good practice with the full backing of governing bodies who, in maintained schools, have a legal responsibility for the conduct of the school.

The models and providers receiving funds aren't always the ones that are best for students, because a policy framework that would distinguish on the basis of quality is not in place.

The Model School Nutrition Policy, created by the state Department of Agriculture, sets a deadline of September 2007 for all K - 12 schools to stop selling all types of candies, as well as unhealthy snacks and drinks that list sugar in any form as the primary ingredient, before the end of the school day.

Our role will be to advise on the game's scientific accuracy, the alignment of its messages with the Center's model of connecting well - framed science to policy and practice, its overall quality, and to ensure that use of the Harvard and Center brands conforms to standards.

Where teachers and headteachers have a different vision — including more music, more outdoor activity, bilingual lessons, a longer school day, all - through education or using different models of teaching — the policy allows them to realise their ambitions and change children's lives for the better.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

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[20] As Andrew J. Coulson concluded in his review of the global research literature on the effectiveness of different models of education systems: «Education markets work best when families pay directly for their own children's education, and so the ideal education policy is one that makes it easier for parents to assume that financial responsibility themselves.»

Adrianna Kezar, Ph.D. (University of Southern California) will engage in strategies aimed at change efforts in support of all faculty; explore policies and practices that better support contingent faculty; as well as offer ideas for reconfiguring today's adjunct and tenure - track roles into new faculty models.

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

Having surveyed the available evidence about community schools» outcomes — as well as evidence on component parts of the model, such as integrated student supports, expanded learning time, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership — the authors argue that community schools are an evidence - based strategy that education leaders and policy makers should support.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

Field leaders in other states — including the Compassionate Schools Initiative in Washington state and the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative, as well as North Carolina pioneer Buncombe County Schools — can serve as sources of model programs and materials, as well as thought partners in new program design.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.