Sentences with phrase «comprehensive policy approach»

Although companies aren't required to purchase both types of insurance, it's a more comprehensive policy approach.

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● The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis By Ben Clift Summary via publisher (Oxford University Press) This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path - breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis.

The policy sets out a comprehensive agenda for national co-ordinated action on waste across six areas, and marks a fundamental shift in the approach to waste management and resource recovery.

This finding underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach is supportive of the approach called for by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, and by the United States Agency for International Development in its breastfeeding policy.

Both policies call for comprehensive intervention approaches, which include the government, health systems, workplaces, and communities in protecting, promoting, and supporting women to choose and succeed in optimal breastfeeding.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrats have tabled an amendment to today's Plaid Cymru debate, and we are calling for a more holistic, comprehensive approach to Welsh Government policies so that their impact on the Welsh language can be formally assessed.

«The paired approach creates a more comprehensive picture of the nature of climate change and the effects of various policies to stem its consequences.»

The researchers recommend that those working to address poverty and hunger in children should include emotional health of parents and caregivers in a more comprehensive approach to policy and services.

I believe that Harvard's comprehensive approach toward educational leadership affords a unique opportunity to integrate the most current scholarship and practices from education, business, and policy in order to develop as both an educational and an organizational leader.

The core strength of the L&L Program is our comprehensive approach to literacy from the combined perspectives of research, policy, and practice.

This guide provides a comprehensive approach to Internet use in the school, as well as information on Internet use policies and legal issues related to student and teacher use of the Internet.

Education Commission of the States has researched school leader certification and preparation policies in all 50 states to provide this comprehensive resource that shows how all states approach specific policies.

Because few states have adopted comprehensive approaches to reform, state policy provides agencies and school districts with general directions for improving teaching and learning, but guidance for more specific means of achieving the goals in question is limited.

Through the Teaching, Leading, & Learning Collaborative (TLLC), CCSSO will support states as they work to identify and take action on policies aimed at comprehensive approaches to improving teachers and leaders» instructional practices with a focus on the implementation of college - and career - ready (CCR) standards.

Also, development of a strategy to communicate, disseminate, and revisit evaluation of the effectiveness of in - service teacher training and mentoring models would significantly benefit the field and result in an increasingly comprehensive approach to preparing social studies teachers to use technology effectively in the classroom, while also providing a model for influencing policy and continually improving practice.

Through the Teaching, Leading, & Learning Collaborative (TLLC), CCSSO will supports states as they work to identify and take action on policies aimed at comprehensive approaches to improving teachers and leaders» instructional practices with a focus on the implementation of college - and career - ready (CCR) standards.

Dr. Laura Goe, Dr. Courtney Bell, and Ms. Olivia Little note in Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness, «Given that teachers» roles involve much more than simply providing subject - matter instruction, it is appropriate to consider a broader and more comprehensive definition of effective teachers consisting of five points and formulated by evaluating discussions of teacher effectiveness in the research literature as well as in policy documents, standards and reports» (2008).

Threat assessment represents an important component of a comprehensive approach to school safety that gives schools an alternative to zero tolerance discipline policies that have proven to be ineffective and counterproductive.

Despite the apparent single - minded emphasis on teacher evaluation from some policy quarters, the importance of a more comprehensive approach is gaining currency.

We need a comprehensive approach to addressing the teacher pipeline because we have seen that piecemeal policy changes do not work.

The resolution is the result of ASCD's ongoing work with Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that our nation's education policy supports a comprehensive and coordinated approach to education that promotes the development of children who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Information and Resources on Developing State Policy on Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA): UPDATE - This Fast Fact is an update of the February 2014 Fast Fact which provides information on how other states are approaching the development and implementation of KEA as part of a comprehensive assessment system.

I then offer a comprehensive profile of Massachusetts» approach to charter schools, including an analysis of Massachusetts» charter cap system alongside an examination of various data trends accompanying the policy, including the conclusion that the cap seems to have produced charter schools which appear to be serving Boston's and other urban areas» low - income and minority communities particularly well, although this pattern is not necessarily replicated in non-urban schools.

«One looks in vain,» he wrote Johnson, «for a point of responsibility below the President capable of taking an evenhanded, comprehensive, authoritarian approach to the development of transportation policies or even able to assure reasonable coordination and balance among the various transportation programs of the government.»

Given the inability of Congress, after seven years of struggling, to pass «comprehensive» climate legislation, it's good to see a shift to the approach pushed by, among others, Stephen H. Schneider, the veteran climate science and policy expert at Stanford University who long stressed the need for a sequence of steps to build public support before the heavier lifting comes.

After three years of intense scrutiny, climate and economic experts have determined that a carbon fee - and - rebate policy would be the strongest and most comprehensive approach to addressing climate change in the District in an equitable manner.

«In recent years, there's been a view in Washington that we should simply «let the market work» by taking a hands - off approach, rather than adopt a proactive and comprehensive set of energy policies.

The most effective policies in the face of tropical cyclones have been and will continue to be adaptive in nature, and thus should play a prominent role in any comprehensive approach to climate policy.

Brown says «the IPCC's comprehensive approach to evaluating climate science makes sense, with experts providing an overview of the science for policy markers.

Foreign policy experts say the Keystone could have been used to forge a grand, cross-border bargain to jointly address climate change — a bargaining chip toward agreements on carbon taxes, cap - and - trade regimes, or other comprehensive approaches.

This speech in fact serves as a preview of an upcoming report by my colleagues and I that takes this three pillar approach to analyze the clean energy policies of Germany, Spain and China, and makes the case that these countries are taking a comprehensive approach towards developing their clean energy industries, whereas all the United States has is a series of patchy and heterogeneous state action (e.g. state renewable energy standards) or federal action that is limited in duration (e.g. short - term renewable energy tax credits, or one - time green stimulus spending).

Germany, Spain and China have comprehensive and coherent and long - term approaches to developing their clean energy industries, while all the United States has for the most part are state - by - state and temporary policies.

They are the conservative politicians who have either been bought off by those corporations or somehow otherwise genuinely fear government policies and regulations, when we know that for a truly global problem, a comprehensive government approach is needed.

Coptic Solidarity applauds Mr. Trump's declared intentions to combat terrorism and provides some recommendations, summarized below, for the new US administration, urging it to formulate a comprehensive foreign policy approach towards Egypt, which incorporates US values and priorities without sacrificing human rights to trade or national security:

«Minnesota's comprehensive approach to tobacco prevention and treatment — including strong policies — has contributed to significantly less smoking in recent years,» said Boyle.

Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence), the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1, introduced on November 7, 2017, by the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Patty Hajdu, seeks to amend both the Canada Labour Code and the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act to, according to the federal government, replace the patchwork of laws and policies that address violence and harassment within the federal jurisdiction, putting into place one comprehensive approach that takes the full spectrum of harassment and violence into consideration.

Bill C - 65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence), the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1, introduced on November 7, 2017, by the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Patty Hajdu, seeks to amend both the Canada Labour Code and the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act to, according to the federal government, replace the patchwork of laws and policies that address violence and harassment within the federal jurisdiction, putting into place one comprehensive approach that takes the full spectrum of harassment and violence into consideration... [more]

Making whole of government approaches work better for ministers and government is now a key priority for the APS... Ministers and government expect the APS to work across organisational boundaries to develop well - informed, comprehensive policy advice and implement government policy in a coordinated way.

The Blueprint also calls for the establishment of an independent central agency with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oversight, to co-ordinate a comprehensive, current and consistent national approach to related data collection and policy development.

This approach is comprehensive and could be further applied to ensure that the government's policy direction in all native title agreements is towards the economic and social development of Indigenous people.

This model promotes a comprehensive approach to sexual and reproductive health in Burkina Faso, while focusing on areas with the greatest need and focusing on a national policy on youth friendly services that directs funding to the local level to support these services.

They should establish, or task, an independent agency with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oversight to co-ordinate a comprehensive, current and consistent approach to data collection and policy development relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment and violence rates.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) created a children's cabinet by executive order in 2016.10 The cabinet serves as an advisory body on issues that the state's children face — formulating policy solutions and encouraging innovation.11 The cabinet focuses on developing a comprehensive strategy to early learning through a uniform approach to data collection, quality assurance, and outcomes measurement.12 The governor chairs the cabinet, which also includes the state superintendent for education, the commissioner for mental health, and the executive director for youth services.

1995 — Building Relationships: Families and Professionals as Partners 1996 — A Promising Future 1997 — Fostering the Well Being of Families 1998 — Trauma: A Multi-Dimensional View 1999 — Coming Together for Children and Families: Developing Comprehensive Systems of Care 2000 — The Neurobiology of Child Development: Bridging the Gap Between Theory Research and Practice 2001 — Processing Trauma and Terrorism 2002 — The Road Less Traveled: Adoptive Families in the New Millennium 2003 — A Better Beginning: Parents with Mental Illness and their Young Children 2004 — Approaches That Work: Multi-Stressed Families and their Young Children 2005 — The Screening and Assessing of the Social Emotional Concerns 2006 — Supporting Young Children through Separation and Loss 2007 — Social Emotional Development: Promising Practices, Research and Policy 2008 — Attachment: Connecting for Life 2009 — Evidenced - based Practices for Working with Young Children and Families 2010 - Eat Sleep and Be Merry: Regulation Concerns in Young Children 2011 - Climbing the Ladder Toward Competency in Young Children's Mental Health 2012 - Focusing on Fatherhood 2013 - Trauma in Early Childhood: Assessment, Intervention and Supporting Families

Tuesday's vote was a triumph for Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and self - described policy wonk who put aside his vision for a more comprehensive, cutting - edge — and controversial — approach to overhauling corporate taxes earlier this year.

NAR has and will continue to advocate comprehensive housing finance policies that will ensure qualified borrows can obtain safe and sound mortgage finance products rather than piecemeal approaches that would introduce uncertainty into the housing finance market and slow the fragile housing recovery.