Sentences with phrase «evidence of a given policy»

The team ranked the strength of the evidence of a given policy's effectiveness as limited (at least one study showed an effect, which wasn't contradicted by other studies), moderate (two or more studies showed the same effect, no contradictory studies) or supported (three or more studies with at least two independent datasets found an effect with no contradictory studies).

Not exact matches

This shift was amplified by the Evangelicals» steady religious market share since 1960 (about one - quarter of the population) and consistent conservatism on social and foreign policy issues — a conservatism that gave evidence of expanding to include traditional Republican economic issues.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

Fiona has given evidence to Government Committees on the subject of elective home education and can provide you with a clear up - to - date analysis of the key areas of elective home education practice and policy in England and Wales.

Our understanding of biology / physiology often starts with animal research, but this doesn't give us evidence of sufficient quality or specificity with which to make public health policy.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

Such evidence indicates that the problem is historically deep - seated, which means that it is highly unlikely that devolution in its present form will give the city region of Manchester the financial resources, administrative capability and policy imagination to manage these genuinely structural problems.

Lords reform, tax reform, and some movement on civil liberties (the National ID card scheme, or the Digital Economy Act) would give visible evidence of their policy impact.

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

The de Blasio administration is hiding details about the racial and ethnic breakdown of the affordable housing lotteries and is trying to keep the deputy mayor from giving evidence about City policies, says an attorney representing New Yorkers suing the City.

Earlier this week Michael Gove, now the Justice Secretary (and Lord Chancellor) recently gave evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee regarding the Government's policy on the future of the Human Rights Act.

Given past evidence that a wider rich - poor gap can be harmful to a population's health, tax policies that widen or narrow this gap may influence the overall health of a society.

Given the importance of East Anglia's data and correspondence in shaping climate policy, including via IPCC reports, some mainstream scientists now say they find the evidence of efforts at data withholding troubling.

Given the weak evidence for the IOC's policy and its potential for fostering gender hysteria, the problem here isn't one of unfair advantage but of bias and discrimination.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

Given how tendentious and hyperbolic her arguments, and how selective and distorted her reading of the evidence, this book is unlikely to influence any policy discussion.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

Given the evidence from Jensen, Johnson and Mercer (2000, 2002) that the return and risk of commodity futures appear to be related to the Federal Reserve's manipulation of policy rates, we extended the investigation by examining a tactical allocation scheme linked to changes in policy rates.

He was ready to give up but then remembered that his current term policy had a conversion option, which meant that he could convert all or part of his existing policy to a permanent plan with no evidence of insurability.

The contestability period lets an insurer investigate deaths within the first two years of a policy, and if they find evidence of fraud (like you didn't tell them something about your mental health history) they can lessen the death benefit given to your beneficiary or outright deny it.

It's no surprise, given the American Bird Conservancy's contribution (president George Fenwick is among the paper's seven co-authors, and Steve Holmer, Bird Conservation Alliance director, is thanked in the acknowledgments for his «review and input during the writing of the manuscript») that the article provides no evidence whatsoever of such policies and practices reducing the risk of rabies posed by free - roaming cats.

I would like to offer a general question to all SWIRLCAREs, like my friend Peter, here, as to what evidence they've «observed» that gives them so much more faith in the economic models that ground their confidence in the «extrem [e] cost» of policies that target ACO2 reduction.

They also give the first on - the - ground evidence of the policies and guidelines that will need to be in place in any post-2012 climate agreement for transport NAMAs to achieve their full potential.

Another one of your disreputable tricks; no matter what evidence you're given, you always claim it's useless for policy, as long as the evidence supports mainstream climate science.

Bob Ward, policy director of The London School of Economics» Grantham Institute, who gave evidence for the report, welcomed its conclusion.

The principal one is that science should be used by democratic societies to enable free & reasoning people to recognize and give proper effect to the best available evidence in deciding * for themselves * what sorts of policies, reflecting whatever balance of interests best fits their own values, will achieve the ends they prefer.

«Given the weakening evidence for severe global warming and the counterproductive consequences of climate policies, surely increased economic growth offers the better bet for adaptation to whatever change in our climate may lie ahead.»

Unfortunately, this seems unlikely — *** given the organization's record of replacing evidence - based policy - making with policy - based evidence - making, as well as the reluctance of academic scientists to accept that what they have been maintaining for many years is wrong.

[55] American Home submits that the trial judge used direct evidence of the parties» subjective intentions to overwhelm the language of the policy, and in effect, granted rectification by giving effect to those subjective intentions.

Peers have invited a range of lawyers and academics to give evidence on UK competition policy post-Brexit this week.

Although no categorical answer can be given here, it seems as though Faskens could have provided evidence to establish a claim that its mandatory retirement policy did not involve any of the aforementioned wrongs.

In relation to cross-border mediation, Art 7 of the Directive adds teeth to that expectation, by requiring member states to ensure that mediators must not be compellable to give evidence in civil proceedings or arbitration regarding information arising out of or in connection with a mediation, except where overriding considerations of public policy otherwise require, or where disclosure of the content of the mediation settlement agreement is necessary in order to implement or enforce it.

Thus the Supreme Court held that the policy of «deport first; appeal later» is a violation of human rights as an appeal against a deportation order by reference to a claim in respect of private and family life under ECHR, art 8 should be effective, and this means there must be an opportunity for appellants to give live evidence to assist the tribunal.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

Given the broad wording of the insurance policy, insurers often take the position that there is insufficient evidence to satisfy the criteria for disability.

The policy owner is given the option to apply for a new 30 - year level premium by submitting evidence of insurability.

He was ready to give up but then remembered that his current term policy had a conversion option, which meant that he could convert all or part of his existing policy to a permanent plan with no evidence of insurability.

Further details of how we will consider your claim, including the full definitions we will use and the evidence we will need, are given in the policy terms and conditions, which will be sent to you when your policy starts.

It gave you the «option to convert all or part of the policy during the life of the policy to a permanent plan at the rate class originally approved without evidence of insurability».

Facebook UK's Head of Public Policy, Rebecca Stimson, in full letter to Damian Collins MP, writes: «Mr Zuckerberg has personally asked one of his deputies to make themselves available to give evidence in person to the Committee.»

«We are aware this is a politically contested subject but believe the Government should take into account the views of the young people who gave evidence to us of the value and importance of good quality mandatory sex and relationship education as policy develops.»

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The role of a nurturing environment on early child development, focused in particular on the specific importance of the quality of parenting and stable care - giving relationships, is well evidenced in the literature and has become central to policies aiming to improve child well - being outcomes (Shonkoff & Phillips 2000; Sonuga - Barke & Kreppner 2012).

Statement of Professional Standards Policy Applicable to Ethics Proceedings Part One, Section 1 — Definitions Relating to Ethics Part One, Section 2 — Qualification for Tribunal Part One, Section 3 — Duty to Give Evidence Part One, Section 4 — Right of Counsel to Appear Part One, Section 5 — Witnesses Part One, Section 6 — Conduct of Hearing Part One, Section 7 — Notices Part One, Section 8 — Interpretation of Bylaws Part One, Section 9 — Waiver Part One, Section 10 — Communication and Clerical Part One, Section 11 — Attempt to Influence Tribunal