Sentences with phrase «describes policy gaps»

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Earlier this year, Jones launched a public initiative asking commercial insurance companies to write policies to cover what he described as «coverage gaps» in the industry.

Rachel, there is also a gap between what face to face policy describes as effective assessment and how it may be defined for online / blended.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

This brief, in partnership with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), describes why and how California's local education leaders are mobilizing expanded learning to close the opportunity gap, and recommends some key steps for districts.

The authors [1] look at the skills that help to drive children's future outcomes, [2] describe how policy - makers, schools and families acknowledge the importance of fostering social and emotional skills development and the gap with the available teaching practices, [3] present an approach to the study of social and emotional skills and the underlying conceptual framework, and [4] highlight future work in this area.

State leaders from Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington will describe their strategies for integrating the following key policy areas that research shows help reduce achievement gaps for young children:

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

A new report by the Learning Policy Institute, The Road to High - Quality Early Learning: Lessons from the States, fills the information gap by describing and analyzing how four states — Michigan, North Carolina, Washington, and West Virginia — have built high - quality early education systems at scale.