Sentences with phrase «new policy instruments»

New technology developments as well as new policy instruments, such as emissions trading, joint implementation, and clean development mechanisms, can promote a cleaner environment, while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency and enhancing security.

These new policy instruments are commonly thought to include: new content standards or instructional frameworks; assessments that focus students» and teachers» work on intellectually authentic tasks that are «aligned» with new content standards; more ambitious curricula that are consistent with new standards and assessments; and changes in teacher education that would improve enactment of the new standards (Cohen, 1995).

Included among the new policy instruments are the standards and assessments that are the subject of the research we examine here.

Systemic reformers have tended to focus on creating new policy instruments such as content standards or curricular frameworks, assessments that are aligned with new content standards, and changes in both preservice and inservice teacher education (Cohen, 1995).

Not exact matches

The LUF called for the development of a set of new policy tools for land and resource stewardship, including market - based instruments.

The new measure calls as well for the FOMC to announce a particular monetary policy «strategy» each year, specifying, not mathematically but «in plain English,» its policy targets and the instrument or instruments it plans to employ to achieve them.

Even the partial democracy used in New York and D.C. is itself an exception, as judges — not the people or their elected legislators — have been the primary instruments of policy change in this social revolution which now has touched nineteen states.

As a human rights instrument, the International Code provides governments with a very specific set of policies to benefit a particular target population; in this case pregnant women and new mothers.

Third, the committee recommends «an impact assessment applied to every government policy, statutory instrument, and new bill, which asks the simple question: «what substantively will this do to build social capital, people power, and social entrepreneurs?»»

SEDL's work on charters, a unique policy instrument for increasing school - site control over education reform, examined the establishment and design of charter schools in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Ten authors with a background as negotiators representing developing countries, business and researchers cover three inter-related issues; 1) policy perspectives globally, from EU, China, US and Canada and the role of UN, 2) existing instruments including CDM and voluntary markets and 3) new instruments such as sector approaches and new market mechanisms.

Carbon pricing instruments are a policy option that a growing number of countries and regions are utilizing to implement new and complement existing national climate and energy policies and to achieve emission reductions.

And we should not forget that cap - and - trade continues to emerge as the preferred policy instrument to address climate change emissions throughout the industrialized world — in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan (as I wrote about in a recent post).

Beyond pricing instruments, the other approaches include regulation under the Clean Air Act, energy policies not targeted exclusively at climate change, public nuisance litigation, and NIMBY and other public interventions to block permits for new fossil - fuel related investments.

The project assessed how the companies in passenger and freight transport comply with the European users rights protection legislation shielding theses parties against travel delays, cancellations and / or disruptions, and in case of gaps in conformity, propose new guidelines for cross-modal alignment of decision - making, capacity planning and reserve - building models at transport service and infrastructure providers in addition to incentive structures and policy instruments for more effective legislation enforcement.

The report anticipated «radical changes» from the «revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization,» an allusion to using taxation as a tool to influence social and industrial policy.

Can something be said about steps the EU legislator and / or EU or national policy makers can take to ensure swift implementation of new EU instruments such as the Brussels I recast.

Consider jewelry, musical instruments, electronic equipment, athletic gear, furnishings, and even your clothing when shopping for a New York City renters insurance policy.

A technical assistant is someone who helps in carrying out policy studies, implementation of new instruments and supporting project preparation and implementation.

Family Voices: Piloting a New Qualitative Measure of Family Engagement for Head Start and Early Head Start Staff and Families (PDF - 2,468 KB) Aikens, Bandel, Akers, Lyskawa, & Jerald (2014) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation & Mathematica Policy Research Focuses on the development of qualitative instruments designed to better understand family engagement in Head Start and Early Head Start; draws on pilot data collected during the 2012 - 2013 program year; and provides information about the performance of the piloted interview protocols, revisions made to instruments based on their performance, and the best methods for gathering qualitative information about family engagement experiences from families and staff in future studies.