Sentences with phrase «offer policy recommendations»

Smith and Weemhoff offer policy recommendations to guide state policymakers, and stakeholders.
A purely scientific assessment, the Surgeon General's Report did not even offer policy recommendations.
Penner, Perun, and Steuerle (2002) discuss some of the legal complexities that firms face with regard to phased retirement and offer policy recommendations that would encourage employers and employees to use phased retirement.
Furthermore, it will offer policy recommendations through which federal and state education agencies and local school districts can address this critical problem.
An amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch (R - UT) passed unanimously, creating a commission that would study privacy issues and then offer policy recommendations to Congress.
To express concern regarding the difficulty of school leaders to staff teaching positions in certain subject areas and geographic regions, and to offer policy recommendations that will help ensure each student is taught by highly prepared and effective teachers.
The short statement highlights biblical principles, describes current problems, and offers policy recommendations.
This publication by the UNCCD CSO Panel aims to analyze and highlight the linkages between land rights and land degradation with the objective of offering policy recommendations to enhance land rights for both the prevention of land degradation and the recovery of degraded lands.
This report details findings from LPI's 2017 Update on California's teacher shortage and offers policy recommendations to address this pressing problem.
The assurance with which Kirp offers his policy recommendations, going so far as to say that they'd look familiar to «any educator with a pulse,» stands in stark contrast to the approach of the teachers and school leaders who adapt to the needs of their students.
We begin by examining school technology needs and then estimate the cost of making upgrades; we conclude by offering policy recommendations to improve school technology infrastructure.
The report offers policy recommendations on how the POUs can comply with the 33 percent RPS in a way that boosts environmental and economic benefits for the state.
This is done by assessing their ability to identify existing or emerging risks and offering policy recommendations where appropriate.
Seeing is Believing offers policy recommendations that would further reduce emissions and bring additional economic benefits.
The 2014 Race for Results report offered policy recommendations that included making use of racial and ethnic data to create policies and programs and increased economic inclusion for vulnerable groups.
This research sheds light on young people's needs for sexual and reproductive health information and services, provides policymakers with evidence to inform effective programs and offers policy recommendations to address unmet needs.

Not exact matches

It offered a list of policy recommendations to reverse the trend, including providing power pricing advantages for baseload plants to continue operating, and speeding up and reducing costs for permitting for baseload power and transmission projects.
It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.
In the article attached, The Honourable John Manley, the Council's President and CEO, and Brian Kingston, vice president of policy for international and fiscal issues, offer a series of specific recommendations for Canadian trade policy.
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long - term partner in Berkshire - Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), usually offers a counter to Buffett's social democrat policy recommendations, such as higher progressive taxes.
Likewise, from time to time Hard Assets Alliance may engage in affiliate programs offered by other companies, though corporate policy firmly dictates that such agreements will have no influence on any product or service recommendations, nor alter the pricing that would otherwise be available in absence of such an agreement.
It offers an array of policy recommendations, including an expansion of SNAP (the federal food stamp program), creating more and better youth job opportunities, and creating teen - led food distribution programs.
At 3 months, there were no differences in breastfeeding rates between the 2 groups; 85.8 % of infants in the offer - pacifier group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 86.2 % in the not - offered group.282 The AAP policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk includes a recommendation that pacifiers can be used during breastfeeding, but implementation should be delayed until breastfeeding is well established.283
The Commission offers recommendations on PPD policy to the Massachusetts Departments of Public Health and Mental Health (MDPH and DMH), which in turn funds MCPAP for Moms.
In this blog post we offer a series of policy recommendations that arose from the seminar's deliberations.
The report offers 10 recommendations for reducing alcohol - related harms through existing licensing policy frameworks.
The New York City Bar Association released a report urging federal and state leaders to «make the reduction of mass incarceration a top priority» and offering several recommendations for changing sentencing laws and other policies.
The document offers a number of recommendations for policy changes that would help this thriving sector achieve even more success.
The authors conclude by offering eight recommendations for employers, ranging from suggestions for effective drug - testing and employee - education programs to policies regarding off - work use of marijuana.
A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.
A call for more research, less coal and a carbon price The report offers 10 policy recommendations to curb the morbidity and mortality stemming from climate change.
The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.
The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.
The National Broadband Plan released recently by the Federal Communications Commission outlines a number of recommendations that could directly affect K - 12 schools: revamping the federal E-rate program to offer more flexible use of the aid and streamline the application process; removing technological and policy barriers to online coursetaking; and improving the collection and transparency of educational data.
In her policy memo, outlined at a June 2014 conference called Addressing America's Poverty Crisis, Long offers three recommendations for addressing the academic preparation problem and thinking «much more deliberately about how to help students.»
Collaborative proposals between research departments offering expertise in control science, geography, operational research, plant science, computing / machine vision, co-operative systems and environmental planning law have great potential in that they unify subjects to provide strong recommendations of policy formation with socio - economic connotations.
Also in this issue: six recommendations to fix Detroit's broken school system, three expert opinions on whether high schools should offer two - tiered diplomas, and a piece on the Vergara v. California case that considers whether litigation is the best approach to reforming teacher tenure policies.
But as a guide for policy (offered in the last section of the toolkit), the book falls short: Boser's recommendations are rather thin, oversimplified, and lacking in analysis of tradeoffs and politics; thus, they are likely to be misinterpreted or over-applied.
My new policy for undergraduates will be to spend 10 minutes on the first day of class reviewing recent research on the negative effects of devices on student learning (research that I find quite compelling) and then offer students my recommendation that they put away their devices to the maximum extent possible.
Based upon this analysis and prior research, the authors offer the following policy recommendations for consideration:
CAE offers a comprehensive platform that includes model programs in all arts disciplines, professional research, and policy recommendations that inform the conversation about arts education at every level from the classroom to the Capitol.
Policy recommendations as well as state exemplar programs are offered.
First, we've taken a support position on the Call for Action to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States of America by the Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence, a group convening experts from all over the country to offer policy guidance and recommendations that we so urgently need.
For more information about teacher leadership, see ASCD's latest Policy Points (PDF), which features recent data on the primary characteristics of teacher leaders, identifies states that offer formal teacher leader certifications, and offers recommendations on how to best support teachers in leadership roles.
The task force offers three overarching policy recommendations for tackling this problem:
Through these efforts, the consortium will share, validate, and refine its RADD II recommendations to improve postsecondary data in support of broader financial aid reform goals and to offer additional policy opportunities.
An iNACOL Issue Brief by Dale Frost and Maria Worthen provides an overview of competency - based education and offers state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to enable and support competency - based education.
The paper encourages state policymakers and their partners to critically review professional development and accountability policies, offers guidance on policy implementation, and makes recommendations for the «powerful and few» core state policies that can improve teaching and learning for all young children.
This newest publication analyzes the latest research on the ways that early experiences, both beneficial and stressful, can have strong impacts on the health of the developing child, and offers research, policy and practice recommendations for supporting children's lifelong health through high - quality early childhood education.
The book highlights successes and struggles of the charter movement after 25 years, backs it up with mountains of data, and offers a number of policy recommendations going forward.
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