Sentences with phrase «needed public policy changes»

I've also written a lot about the danger of those who push the use of Social Emotional Learning Skills as a replacement for, instead of an addition to, the needed public policy changes to impact many of the challenges facing students, families and communities (see The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning and The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough).

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Like other countries, Canadian public policy will need to adapt to this new global competitive environment arising from demographic changes.

The group of bishops addresses many needs of the church, from how to handle changes in the liturgy to acting as the public policy arm of the church.

TSA changes their policies and procedures regularly to meet the security needs of the flying public.

No Kid Hungry aims to build partnerships that enlist influential individuals to act as catalysts to advocate the policy changes needed to achieve its end goal of engaging the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.

Nevertheless, as the authors point out, a national food policy would shine a brighter spotlight on these conflicts and would also likely raise public awareness about and support for meaningful improvements to our food system — a much needed first step toward change.

He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.

Then you base all your policies on what the public want.MN: But the public don't know half of what is going on in the world.JA: But you need to ask them about what grieves them and how they'd change things.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Sustainable Developments: The Need for Open Process (p 39) The Obama administration has missed key opportunities to both shape public policy and to convey the importance of these changes in a clear form.

«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

Politics is a numbers game, and you need politicians to actually change how the public square interacts with the policies we hold close.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

He plans and monitors both ATI responses to changes in governmental policies and public needs related to education and ATI projects with K - 12 and Pre-K policy implications.

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

Policy changes to establish a student assessment and public school accountability system that meets state goals, is community based, promotes parent and community involvement, and reflects the unique needs of each community.

Give teachers the support and resources they need to lead collaborations with their peers and hold public conversations about changes to existing policy and practice grounded in their experiences with blended learning initiatives.

As changes to state tax policy are considered, it needs to be acknowledged how those changes affect the public entities that receive the revenue.

To ensure our activities are having an impact towards our overall 2020 mission goals we track the following key measures: # researchers funded, breakthrough achievements of funded research, policies changed and / or significant progress made on healthy public policies, # Canadians reached to learn about and establish healthy lifestyle choices and, # survivors and care partners reached to receive needed information and supports.

The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

There is a huge need to do «applied» climate change ethics as most ethical analysis in the academy on environmental issues has not engaged policy - makers or the general public.

A new policy framework is needed — one that articulates overarching purpose and strategy; buttresses the supporting public - private partnerships; expands the collaborations to bring in social scientists, service providers, and end users, both domestically and internationally; commits the resources necessary for the long haul; and builds in the flexibility and responsiveness needed to keep pace with social change and evolving needs.

It's been obvious to some of us for a long time that bicycle infrastructure policy needs to change in order to give bicycle ridership a big boost, and public health would of course improve from that, as well.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

«Because of these proposed backward - looking changes and new development plans for public lands in the region, the grouse is once again at risk of extinction and in need of stronger protection,» said Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy's Vice President of Policy.

Please reevaluate and update us on the accuracy and significance of global warming models in light of this evidence and the need for very high significance in climate science to justify major changes in public policy.

If climate change scientists want policies enacted based on climate change science, they need public support.

I commit to working actively with other businesses, as well as investors and policy makers, to bring about the businessworthy changes needed, and to use my leadership voice to advocate the public policy required to make this a reality.

As you note, it has failed to make fighting climate change a high priority of most Americans (i.e., ranked vs. the many other national public policy needs).

«Governments and policy makers need to know what the health effects from climate change are and who is most at risk,» said John Balbus, M.D., NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate change.

We need to find more ways to transfer scientific findings to the public so that we can positively impact public policy and conservation management — especially now, when the natural world is changing so rapidly.»

«The importance of experiential learning creates several challenges to a public consensus needed to implement meaningful climate change policy,» the researchers write.

«Most recent polls... have indicated a clear drop in the public support for climate change and therefore, if Government wishes to retain its mandate for action it needs to improve public understanding of the scientific basis [sic] for climate change policy,» it reads.

Responses to the consultation demonstrated two over-arching perspectives: those who believe that change is happening in the legal profession, and those who doubt that transformative change is occurring or that there are compelling reasons to meet that change... respondents who cautioned against the need for change often expressed strong support for the public policy reasons underlying lawyers» existing regulatory regimes.

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It proposes to meet this challenge by using a partnership of the community, social partners, statutory and public representative sectors to provide services, influence structures and change policies so that all local people are included in a self - sustaining community that integrates work and economic activity with personal, social and economic needs.

At the very least, a change in public policy of this magnitude needs serious, scientific research.