Sentences with phrase «effective incentives for»

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The most conventional interpretation of such performance differences would be that the program provided effective incentives for teachers and that the evaluations carefully discriminated among teachers of high and low quality.

To build adequate, equitable, and sustainable financing with effective incentives for quality additional resources will need to come from a combination of public and private resources, with the largest portion of funding coming from public investments, the report says.

An evaluation of A-Plus can reveal whether the prospect of competition, in the form of vouchers offered to students at chronically failing schools, represents an effective incentive for improvement.

Combining carbon capture technology in coal plants with the specific usage of CO2 in the oil sector means that capturing CO2 turns into a profitable business in itself while providing an effective incentive for reducing emissions.

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And because people can sell stock at any sign of trouble, this «weakens incentives for effective corporate governance.»

Chiefly, for profit sharing to be effective, it has to be used in conjunction with other incentives, they say.

Providing incentives to private firms to exceed baselines — such as improved recidivism rates — is an effective carrot, versus creating penalties for basic contract breaches like failing to receive basic accreditation or meet minimum standards.

Tailor and test email campaigns using Campaigner's static segmentation tools for more highly targeted and effective promotions, coupons and other incentive programs.

CATA proposes that an expert industry - government panel be created to research and propose the most appropriate direct and indirect incentives for enhancing effective collaborations among Canadian companies to promote commercialization results and speedier industrial developments.

The Fund aims to capitalize on the combination of emerging cost - effective commercial technologies, the economic and regulatory incentives associated with renewable energy and environmental projects, and the demand for ancillary infrastructure to support increasing penetration of renewable energy in the U.S. energy mix.

The HRC also believes that the risks to management of forfeiting all or a significant portion of the Performance Share awards is an effective performance incentive and the ability for management to earn additional Performance Shares for superior Company performance during the performance period provides a significant retention and motivation incentive to the named executives.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

The US's own experience in introducing diversity targets illustrates the time lag that many times characterizes policy implentations from time of inception, underscoring the need for effective incentives from the start.

You argue that the securities industry would provide more effective regulation of certain insurance products, ignoring the financial incentive that industry has for limiting access to competing products.

Although Greater Vancouver also earns an «A» grade on KPMG's Total Tax Index, as local businesses enjoy relatively low statutory labour costs, the region is much less competitive when it comes to the marginal effective tax rate on capital, an indicator specifically designed to measure incentives for business investment.

It would be possible that a better - targeted incentive for homebuyers would be more effective, but it would have to take a different form than the current deduction.

In 1993, a pilot project, the Karst Programme, was developed by the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Environmental Protection with the aim of developing an appropriate and cost - effective incentive scheme for groundwater protection in one of Lithuania's most sensitive areas.

By building a more detailed profile of claimants» underlying problems, using information available to other government departments, segmentation tools developed in the private sector and testing new incentives and flexibilities for Jobcentre Plus staff, we can begin to develop a more effective approach.

«To be fully effective, it is important that government gives people confidence that environmental tax incentives will be in place for a long period.

I may be wrong in assuming that a whistle - blower would have emerged if someone at Ford or GM tried to pull off a cheat like this, but I think there is enough to discuss about legislative incentives for or against whistle - blowing and whether legislation would even be effective, given cultural norms.

«Currently, for homeowners that are interested in accessing solar energy, there are a number of different tax credits and incentives available to make that a really cost - effective choice,» she said.

There are a lot of built - in incentives for both providers and patients to opt for more expensive treatments instead of cheaper but equally effective ones, because after all «my insurance will cover it».

Effective competition for larger works is deemed to be lacking, which service providers can sometimes have «different incentives» to the authority requesting the change which can prove damaging.

In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the City and the teachers» union on a new teacher evaluation system.

Last week in his 2014 State of the State speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched a teacher incentive plan, which could total more than $ 6 million for «highly effective» teachers from Riverhead to Oysterponds.

In the case of retirement savings, for example, a nudge that prompted new employees to indicate their preferred contribution rate to a workplace retirement - savings plan yielded a $ 100 increase in employee contributions per $ 1 spent on implementing the program; the next most cost - effective strategy, offering monetary incentives for employees who attended a benefits fair, yielded only a $ 14.58 increase in employee contributions per $ 1 spent on the program.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

Vermont Center on Behavior and Health Director Stephen Higgins, Ph.D., and colleagues, have developed an effective behavioral economic approach that offers women financial incentives for quitting.

Five years ago, Lamont rejected tax incentives for R&D because they were not cost effective, the economy was booming, and the government was against intervention on principle.

Their primary recommendation is that the Chinese government should consider scaling up «effective targeting of financial support and subsidies, while improving the financial incentive system for NEVs.»

«Calorie labeling appears to be effective in an online environment where consumers have fewer distractions, and the simpler traffic - light labeling seems as effective as standard calorie numbers,» said lead author Eric M. VanEpps, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

And they create an incentive for teachers with scores just below the «highly effective» threshold, because scoring above it makes them eligible for a significant increase in pay.

We look at teacher retention during the second year of IMPACT, when the threat of dismissal for «minimally effective» teachers became newly credible and financial incentives for «highly effective» teachers could be made permanent.

These design features create sharp incentive contrasts for teachers with scores on either side of the «effective» threshold, because scoring above it removes the threat of dismissal.

When state law essentially guarantees public employment for ineffective teachers in California, low - income families pay one way or another — either in the form of salary incentives to retain and redistribute effective teachers, reductions in other services required to pay for those salary incentives, or because such policies usually fail to completely offset the burden, in terms of the lowered achievement of their children.

For example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systeFor example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systefor the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systefor the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systefor initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systefor the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systems.

For - profit schools also give their principals more decision - making powers and provide more incentives for making effective decisions, particularly with regard to personnel practicFor - profit schools also give their principals more decision - making powers and provide more incentives for making effective decisions, particularly with regard to personnel practicfor making effective decisions, particularly with regard to personnel practices.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

The next round must get to measuring teacher effectiveness based on student achievement, promoting professional development that is based on research and effective practice and improves performance, providing incentives for teachers who are effective, and requiring removal of teachers who, even with solid professional development, can't or don't improve.

His work examines the promise of distributed leadership, the potential for improved incentive systems to promote effective practices and bring them to scale, and the necessity to maintain a tight focus on instruction within an internalized accountability system.

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Moe, for reasons I'll explain in a moment, thinks «reform unionism» is a pipe dream and that the only effective way to drive school improvement is by getting the system incentives to emphasize performance — which requires measures of student learning.

«Instead, as district leaders are discovering for themselves,» Haycock writes, «a better solution lies in a creative combination of targeted incentives for teachers and policies that empower administrators and school leaders to recruit and retain effective educators.»

The high standards, external exams, and incentives baked into the AP program provide effective mechanisms for holding students accountable for working hard and making progress.

Thoughtful and effective policies for developing a professional workforce will have to include a mix of incentives for pre-K teachers that may be different from those designed for teachers in K — 12; provide training that is focused on classroom practices and the specific challenges of teaching young children; and improve the alignment of early childhood education with K — 12.

Such systems, if organized around direct assessments of teacher and classroom quality, based on strong and valid metrics and tied to new or existing incentive systems, could be a cost - effective means of producing real change for teachers and children.

Nobel Prize — winning economist Milton Friedman theorized that for - profit firms are more effective because they have clear economic incentives to lift student performance.