Sentences with phrase «if policy progress»

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«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

It's important that supervisors address the behavior with an enforceable policy and progress to discipline if necessary.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

I'll tell you why... because governments make policy based on it, people are murdered DAILY because of it, Science is delayed and marginalized because if it, and all of humanity is held back from progress,..

«It is something that I am quite concerned about in terms of how the government progresses that policy, and if it does, how we transition as a refining business,» he told The Australian Financial Review.

If a woman's labor is not progressing fast enough per hospital policy, then they create intense contractions using synthetic forms of oxytocin.

«If we stick to the policy of ensuring that as far as public finance is concern, there is no impunity and that we hold people to account, I'm absolutely confident that this country has what it really takes to make the kind of progress we deserve to make as a nation.»

«But I want to say that that task has already begun and that task is being done consistently and I believe that going forward in the next few years, no matter how we are criticized, if we stick to policy especially controlling excesses and corruption in public finance, this country will make the kind of progress that it deserves to make with all the resources at our disposal.

It's good that the Regulatory Policy Committee is there to clamp down on this sort of bad regulation, and we welcome the Government's progress so far on this issue, but the RPC needs real powers if it is to drive change and challenge Whitehall culture.

«If we had a national paid leave plan, it would potentially put into the economy $ 21 billion annually,» Gillibrand said at a conference hosted by the Center for American Progress, a progressive public policy and advocacy organization.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

«I want us to cast our minds back since the 1992 Constitution and to ask ourselves sincerely that if we were to take away all the things and the major programmes and policies that the NPP has put in place; that is, if we take away everything since 1992 that the NPP government of President Kufuor and Akufo - Addo have done for our country, you would realise that we're the only government that when we come to power we progress the prosperity of this country.

So Assemblyman James Skoufis created Zachary's Law, a bill that requires schools to develop policies that lets disabled students take part in commencement activities, as long as they meet their certificate requirements: «If a student with disabilities has made progress, that they be able to participate in this life moment with their classmates that they grew up with,» Skoufis said.

One critical question from a policy perspective is whether research progress is as rapid as it could be if data sharing were maximized.

For example, if an employee is interacting with a training module centered around company policies, his / her progress, assessment results, social sharing, and any other data being produced during the eLearning course is «big data».

If educational professionals were allowed more influence on policy we would make better forward progress.

For instance, if an employee is interacting with a training module based around company policies, their progress, social sharing, assessment results, and other relevant date that is being generated throughout the eLearning course is referred to as «big data.»

It is critical to maintain a focus on federal education and related policies, even if federal progress will be an uphill battle over the next four years.

In particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equity.

If grades reflect a student's progress toward learning, what might that mean for the assessment and policy procedures in their own classrooms?

Board members Lottie Beebe and Carolyn Hill have raised eyebrows at the state's policy that even F - graded charters may be renewed at the end of their first term if students have made major progress from a very low starting point.

As the game progresses, choices about strategic building expansions, tax policies, farming, industry, religious institutions, defense and other important decisions will play a role in the city's growth, strength, resident's happiness, and other factors that will determine if their cities thrive or fail.

To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.

If all counties and states and countries and continents adhered to progress like that, then mandated 1 - 2 child policies, we'd see great changes for the veneer of this planet.

Getting this context clearly understood as the premise for policy discussion is important now if progress is to be made in shaping the future in ways that avoid potential political pitfalls as the impacts of climate change accelerate.

Even if the accounting behind D.C.'s climate progress were trustworthy, it is highly unlikely that the rapid decline in emissions will continue without substantive new policy interjections.

It helps establish the AGW policy issues as different and separate from the «bad science» issues, an important first step if our objective is to make progress.

If up to two thirds of fossil fuels can not be burned, investors in these projects risk being left with up to $ 2 trillion in «stranded assets», investments rendered valueless by a combination of rapid technological progress from renewables, more stringent climate policies and shifts in market sentiment.

If the whole policy issues did not exist, the ocean - atmosphere - climate physics realm is pretty good from for the scientific methodological perspective (consistent progress in observation, theory and modeling).

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

«If France really wants to remain the guardian of the Paris Agreement,» added Lucille Dufour, policy adviser for Reseau Action Climate in France, «it must bring forth all of its political weight to drive forward progress on key issues like adaptation and loss - and - damage.»

They also indicate the importance of the US helping China develop mechanisms to measure and monitor the performance of energy policies, help that China could use if it is to make serious progress on emissions.

If we keep electing so called Progressives (they've been blocking true progress for 50 years), we'll keep getting incompetents like the Obama Administration — and we'll keep implementing policies that retard progress.

On an annual basis the insurance company or agent will assess the progress of your whole life insurance policy in reference to cash value equivalency accumulation, financial stock performance, if applicable, and so on.

As you progress you can convert your policies, if you choose, to something like a universal life policy which allows for flexibility in premium payment as well as death benefit amount.

But if you apply for life insurance when you're pregnant (with a multitude of physiological changes in progress), can you expect a life insurance company to approve you for a policy?

If we're going to make any progress in closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, we're going to have to start addressing the gap that currently exists between the policies and procedures institutions put in place around cultural safety, and their practices and the lived experiences of Indigenous people in our hospitals and health services.