Sentences with phrase «incentive policies designed»

This paper considers targeted incentive policies designed to retain experienced high - need teachers, of retirement age, as instruments to extend current teachers» careers.

Encourage local policymakers to «right - size» leave privileges and initiate incentive policies designed to reduce levels of teacher absence.

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That's led to a slew of calls for government intervention and new policies designed to juice startup activity: savings accounts to finance new companies; immigrant entrepreneurial visas; programs to facilitate startups» access to capital; and expanded tax incentives for new businesses.

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The authors noted that original SAI guidelines gave community colleges incentive to expand short - term certificate programs, which are designed to be completed in less than one year, even though it was not one of the primary goals of the state's policy.

The framing of policy in the NRC report is simple: «The small or nonexistent benefits that have been demonstrated to date suggest that incentives need to be carefully designed and combined with other elements of the educational system to be effective.»

How best to design incentives for public organizations such as schools is a fundamental public policy challenge.

Such policies include instituting external, curriculum - based exams linked to real - world consequences for kids; maintaining high standards for earning good grades; and experimenting with well - designed cash - incentive programs.

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.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

Such academics as Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton say that policies designed to help districts cope with the effects of shifting student enrollments «weaken the incentives that should drive change and adaptation.»

Today, in almost every corner of the education world, you'll find an economist studying the impact of government policies and helping to design programs that provide incentives — and disincentives — for students and school districts.

The paper also tests the effects on marginal returns of a variety of potential Social Security policy changes designed to improve incentives to work.

In addition to destroying the moral incentive for households to «do their bit» to reduce emissions, this design feature renders all other policies aimed at reducing emissions pointless.

Simply opening up electricity markets to competition would be far better than these hobbled - together policies of regulation, tax incentives, and renewable - friendly rate structures, but at least these standard - issue policies are designed around incentives rather than edicts.

a) Carefully designed public meetings that provide social spaces and incentives for a wider net of citizens to come together to learn, discuss, plan and provide meaningful input on policy measures, government initiatives, and private and non-profit sector planning.

We advise public policy makers at all levels with respect to the design of suitable instruments for emissions trading, incentives and funding mechanisms as well as the evaluation of their impacts.

And the ecosystem includes deployment policies that should be explicitly designed to ensure that every dollar invested provides the best incentives for further innovation and cost declines.

This adds an incentive for polluting parties to form lobby groups in order to influence policy design to avail themselves of such gains.»

These policies are designed with discounted premiums as an incentive for people to insure all of their vehicles with the same company.

Differentiated Lawrence County's incentives package from competing communities by strategically developing a «Menu» of incentives designed to allow companies to choose a package which makes the most sense to them rather than offering rigid incentives policy with no flexibility.

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The critical role of parenting in the lives of children provides a strong incentive to policy - makers and researchers to design programs that take advantage of these intimate and powerful familiar processes.

Licensees asked to compare their firm's commission split policies with those of other firms should explain that the amount of cooperative compensation is designed to maximize the incentive of cooperating offices to sell the listing.