Sentences with phrase «difficult policy questions»

With such a long and varied list of potentially serious obstacles and an increasingly tight fiscal environment, we're faced with a difficult policy question: what cost - effective levers can colleges employ for boosting graduation rates?

Not exact matches

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Damian Collins, a British lawmaker, said Sunday that Zuckerberg or another senior executive should appear in front of his committee because previous witnesses have avoided difficult questions, creating «a false reassurance that Facebook's stated policies are always robust and effectively policed.»

Presidents are often tasked with posing difficult questions about foreign or domestic policy.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Politicians talking about society and invading Iraq and the healthcare as a thing where it's all just the question of doing the right policy, actually it's very, very difficult.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

While noting that it's difficult to comment without knowing details of Pruitt's plans, Carney said that the association «would question policies that would exclude qualified experts from review panels based on criteria that are extraneous.»

Personnel Policy Services editors have analyzed the FMLA statute, the DOL regulations, and recent court cases to provide some practical answers to your difficult questions.

Holt, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years, brought his dual experience as a scientist and lawmaker to a number of discussions focused on the difficult question of how scientists can best help to inform policy.

How hybridization affects fitness and what level of hybridization is permissible pose difficult conservation questions with little empirical information to guide policy and management decisions.

A good resource to include in the gifted and talented policy and something that allows the children to access mathematics with real - life problem solving and takes them away from the more difficult abstract questions in mathematics.

The Guidance Counselor also has a central location and open door policy in the school, so students always feel welcome to stop in and ask a question or get support, anything from getting a safety pin for their clothes to talking about something difficult that happened to them.

Charter Schools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public policies affect regular public schools.

Scientific management also seems to promise that the answer can be found without confronting difficult questions of distributive justice; we persist in the illusion that science combined with policy can fix our problems without requiring any difficult choices or tradeoffs.

It gets even more difficult if you have specific questions about the policy's coverage details.

The policy question is what if the first of these is just dead set wrong (difficult as is for space cadets to imagine — and remembering that models can't help us here) and the planet resolutely refuses to warm for a decade or three more at least?

By looking at these different areas he will dig into the difficult questions of how to deal with uncertainty in science, the communication of this uncertainty, and the difficulties when science meets policy and the media.

Difficult questions for uninformed Joe Public, I know, but should Joe Public get to decide policy if he can't answer?

It is difficult to make important public policy, when the scientists won't answer questions.

Pointing out and questioning this attitude can only be good for science, but it may make it more difficult for radical emissions reduction policies to be implemented.

While it is difficult to quantify the impact of having proper policies and procedures to prevent incidents, there are examples of courts and tribunals deciding that, even though a breach had occurred, the corporation in question had sufficiently robust checks in place to absolve the company.

Some examples are: difficult legal reference questions, interlibrary loan requests, job announcements, information vendor problems, and policy discussions.

Buying the right policy now, one that includes a Guaranteed Insurability Option (GIO) to increase coverage later with no health questions, will guarantee your child the ability to buy the coverage they need, even if their health would otherwise make it difficult or unavailable.

It gets even more difficult if you have specific questions about the policy's coverage details.

«Getting divorced is a very difficult question the couple needs to resolve before they purchase the (joint life insurance) policy,» Brostoff adds.

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Now it's not all that difficult to see who being able to purchase a life insurance policy without having to take a medical exam or answer any health related questions would have its benefits.

These are all questions designed by the insurance companies to learn more about you and how «well» you are functioning in normal daily activities which will make it difficult (but not necessarily impossible) for someone to qualify for a traditional term or whole life insurance policy.

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