Sentences with phrase «greater policy attention»

Noting the large emissions reductions that would be needed to control global warming, Dr. Dietz and his colleagues concluded that «the potential for household action deserves greater policy attention.»

The authors state: «Great policy attention in recent years has been focused on the high average performance of adolescents in Finland.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration's drone policy has drawn a great deal of attention in the last few months.

The country's immigration policies deserve equal if not greater attention.

This is evident in the policy of the government, which pays greater attention to trivial educational inputs, such as common uniforms for pupils at the expense of regular payment of teachers salaries.

«Policy makers must focus greater attention on zoning resource use over entire river basins and include local communities in landscape - scale conservation planning, to ensure their continued success.»

«Health policies would benefit from greater attention to what is known about effective messaging and behavior change.

In view of the increasing activity and attention to the role of science in foreign policy at the highest political levels, we believe the time is right to catalyze greater thought and discussion about issues at the interface of science and diplomacy.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

Schools must still conduct an evaluation of the «content and effectiveness» of a parent and family engagement policy and still identify «barriers to greater participation by parents in activities authorized by this section (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background).»

This so - called «achievement gap» has of course drawn a great deal of attention in education - policy circles.

Most significant, the state of knowledge in the field is constantly changing as policy attention is fueling a great deal of new research on value - added.

So given equal scientific weight to their arguments, the argument of the alarmist is rationally of greater policy consequence and should be given more attention, without it being cast as part of the mainstream.

The possibilities for disaster far greater than the expected result deserve at least as much attention in policy formation as the possibilities for damage much smaller than expected, but they never seem to get that attention.

We have gone back and forth on when Hansen knew that CFCs would probably decrease over time, but if one recalls that Hansen is a political animal and seemingly interested first and foremost in policy and further that these scenarios were revealed to a Congressional hearing on climate, it takes no great imagination to assume that he put a scenario out there that might just scare and attract attention and particularly if he can see that that scenario may be called «business as usual».

A great irony is that the Scientizers have different political views but share the expectation that science is the appropriate battleground for this debate, and have together thus far successfully kept the focus of attention on the climate science rather than policy and politics.

«The greater global attention to climate policy also means that fossil fuel companies are becoming increasingly risky for investors in terms of the delivery of long - term returns.

The claimed problem was so great that it caught the attention of diverse groups including policy - makers, Nobel committees and even Hollywood.

These findings suggest that policy - makers should give greater attention to measures that slow the expansion of fossil fuel supplies.

To overcome this tragedy, greater attention must be given to the generation of path - dependent policy interventions that can «constrain our future collective selves.»

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Owing to my great attention to detail, strong marketing skills and ability to convince people, I excelled in selling insurance policies to both individuals and companies.

Those of us in positions of situational authority need to pay serious attention to how our agencies can generate greater policy innovation at the start of the policy cycle while, at the other end, pursuing administrative innovation to improve our delivery capabilities.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.

Workforce housing is a topic that is receiving much greater attention today among officials at all levels of government and the real estate community, as well as those concerned with housing policy and affordability.