Sentences with phrase «close policy gaps»

The database further supports the IEA G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action mandate to «share best practice between participating governments», and the agreement by IEA Energy Ministers in 2009 to promote energy efficiency and close policy gaps.

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The policy patched over any skills gaps until they could be closed through immigration.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Analysts say Beijing is unlikely to cede any ground on policies meant to help close that gap.

And this, of course, has major implications for the policies we pursue to close the gap and reverse the wage stagnation for the majority of the workforce.

For instance, as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points out, Canadian manufacturing productivity still stubbornly trails U.S. levels, despite upbeat predictions at the outset that NAFTA - spurred economic integration would close the gap.

(As an aside, that fiscal spend boost is probably not coming until Q2 2016 at the absolute earliest — though this is still within the BoC's 6 - 8 quarter projection horizon for getting inflation sustainably back on target / setting policy to close the output gap.)

Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.

The ongoing national discussion over how to close those gaps, and whether they even can be closed at all, has not been confined to policy makers and philanthropists.

So we know that policies like paid family leave after a new baby arrives — which the U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world not to have in place — are critical to helping to close that wage gap, as well as fair pay policies, sick day policies and affordable childcare policies.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

And while Powell was subsequently sacked from his post of Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, the political leaders who came after him did not do enough to close the gap between their policies and public opinion.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Cuomo's office says it may be closing the gap on bail reform and other policy issues it has been pushing, including several women's rights issues, because he and other Democrats have moved closer to owning a majority of the state Senate.

Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition's policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students.

In 2010, the Board of Regents released policies designed to prepare students for college and 21st century careers, close the achievement gap and instill a lifelong love of learning in children Regents Reform Agenda, according to a press release issued by Mr. Flanagan's office.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

Established in 1920, The Barrow Cadbury Trust aims to close the gaps in current policy and practice by supporting work in local communities and acting as a bridge to national and international policymakers.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisiGap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisigap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

There would also be an «active industrial policy», «private sector reform» and closing «the class gap in education».

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research policy research group.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

However hard schools work, they will struggle to close the attainment gap unless the Government develops a coherent policy to tackle poverty and deprivation.

«Cuomo's trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing of the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave,» he said

His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.

«The alternative tolling policies of the Move NY plan do not fully close the gap, but make a substantial contribution,» reads the report.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

And while the representation of women in the professoriate increased at all levels between 2002 and 2010,» [t] his positive progress is nevertheless slow and should not mask the fact that, in the absence of proactive policies, it will take decades to close the gender gap and bring about a higher degree of gender equality.»

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.

Meg Hiller, chair of the committee, insists that closing the «attainment gap» for disadvantaged pupils should be «a cornerstone of education policy» and that a failure to close the attainment gap would continue to «pass down through generations».

My ultimate goal is to return to the U.S. and help design and implement policies that can close the academic achievement gap in this country.»

EN: In the past two decades, education policy has emphasized closing the achievement gap between low performers and high performers by raising the achievement of the low performers.

School financing policies should be driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in student achievement, bringing teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.

In Closing America's High - achievement Gap, recently published by the Philanthropy Roundtable, I argue that the «let - them - be» approach is deeply flawed and that public education policy and practice pay far too little attention to helping gifted students reach their full potential.

Conservative scholars and policy makers Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom followed suit soon after, and Bush's first Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, has just coauthored a book called The Black - White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time.

Checked: Charles Murray, «Intelligence in the Classroom,» Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2007; Richard Rothstein, Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap (Economic Policy Institute, 2004)

Achievement gaps remain nearly as large as they were when Coleman and his team put pen to paper, even when better research has suggested ways to close them and even when policies have been promulgated that supposedly are explicitly designed to eliminate them.

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

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He has worked closely with the Ed School in the past both as a former part - time lecturer and as faculty cochair and director of the AGI at Harvard, a university - wide initiative to help close the nation's achievement gaps by supporting new research and connecting research to policy and practice.

While lower class size has a demonstrable cost, it may prove the more cost - effective policy overall in closing the widening gap between the lowest and highest achievers, even in tight budgetary conditions;

Its «studies» were short policy briefs that combined solid research, unimpeachable data, and a powerful and popular ideology («close the achievement gap») in an accessible format.

Perhaps Sawgrass would sneak through under the new policy if it were «closing» achievement gaps.

Any reformer that promises you that any policy will close those gaps is selling you a bill of goods.

Many of the education policies he would pursue as governor were designed to help close the achievement gap between students from low - income families and those from more affluent circumstances, a goal most voters shared.

«The focus right up to what's been the national policy framework — namely Closing The Gap — is orientated on that.

It is time we had an open, honest discussion about education policy in our state and begin to close the achievement gaps.»

She returns to Baltimore schools after serving for three years as vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, DC - based nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap experienced disproportionately by African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low - income families.

The trust staff spends most of its time providing assistance to local, state and national leaders in developing both policies and improvement strategies to raise achievement and close gaps between groups, K — 16.

The effects are more than twice as large for students in the bottom third of test - scorers than for those in the top third, suggesting that later start times may be an especially relevant policy change for districts striving to close achievement gaps.