Sentences with phrase «other policy interventions»

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

Comparing costs of expanding instructional days with the costs of other policy interventions will be an analytic and policy exercise of real importance if the call for expanded instructional time is to result in real change.

We could find plenty of examples of disconnect from other policy interventions, such as pre-school programs, but I am focusing on school choice because I know this literature best.

With this in mind, a research team including academics and practitioners inside and outside of government examined existing studies to evaluate the relative cost effectiveness of nudges and other policy interventions.

Without significant other policy intervention, it would simply be cost - effective to import other oil, via our existing pipeline network, to satisfy our demand at the higher prices.

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It concluded that others would be better solved through administrative intervention on all new foreign investment, case by case, and it rejected a major policy shift, such as a «buy - back» strategy, towards increased Canadian ownership.

Working in the other direction, the investment of the US dollar proceeds of foreign exchange intervention by Asian central banks was supportive of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed funds rate, particularly in light of the Fed's reaffirmation of its intention to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

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Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

As it is likely that some types of social support are more important for postpartum depression compared to others, and that this may vary according to circumstance and culture, knowing more about these finer details can help to better inform health policy and guide interventions from health professionals.

Among many other interventions, the Ministry of Education introduced a historic BECE Private Candidates Policy and a policy of zero tolerance for teacher absenteeism, which saw a decline in absenteeism from 27 % to a low oPolicy and a policy of zero tolerance for teacher absenteeism, which saw a decline in absenteeism from 27 % to a low opolicy of zero tolerance for teacher absenteeism, which saw a decline in absenteeism from 27 % to a low of 7 %.

While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus about austerity economics, and the development of economic policies by John McDonnell and his team which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.

Upper East Regional Director of Food and Agriculture Francis Ennor, said the exercise will provide data on community facilities such as roads, hospitals and schools, among other things for proper policy interventions to propel the development of farmers in the rural areas.

They should mention one specific policy intervention that would have brought about an improvement in the economy other than John Mahama's investment in the oil sector and improvement in the prices of gold on the international market,» he said.

In his first major intervention in the election campaign, Brown said May's policies would reverse the progress made in tackling poverty under Labour and leave the country more «economically divided and socially polarised than any other prime minister in living memory».

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

«While Massachusetts safety - net hospitals (many of which are minority - serving) received large cuts in payments with the idea that other hospitals would assume the care of previously uninsured patients, this study demonstrates the importance of securing the future of safety - net and minority - serving hospitals through policy - based interventions to assure the continued care of vulnerable and underserved patient populations.»

«Having better data on prevalence will allow policymakers and others to have informed ways of measuring interventions and figuring out how effective policy can be made,» she said.

Author Bio: Deming's work is broadly in the economics of education, with a focus on the impact of policies and interventions on outcomes other than test scores.

Leaving that aside and assuming that their analyses are superior to all others and free from major flaws, we still need prospective controlled studies of the interventions they champion, e.g., reducing undermatch, before it would be prudent to jump on a policy bandwagon.

The research showing the important variation in teacher quality within schools and its connection not only to test scores but also to other important outcomes ought to strengthen arguments for teacher - oriented policy interventions.

The gains are large when compared to other possible policy interventions, such as the effects of attending a school with higher average achievement levels or enrolling in a charter school.

Government policies exclude inadequate instruction, cultural and social factors, and emotional disturbance, because there are other categories in special education or other services for these children, not because their academic difficulties are different or because these excluded children need different types of interventions.

Complicated and generous loan - forgiveness programs might be worth it if there were some evidence that loan forgiveness, rather than other interventions, is the best policy approach.

Increasingly popular interventions like forced backfilling, the «mystery - shopper» program, and other equity - informed policies could alter the school's culture and staffing.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

Indeed, as Fuller and others have noted, if the policy goal is to narrow gaps between haves and have - nots, why would the same programmatic intervention be administered to everybody?

The other recommendations below provide options for state policy and programmatic interventions that can help teachers and other school - based professionals recognize and respond to the behavioral manifestations of trauma and other impacts of ACEs on learning.

The Task Force should also recommend sources of funding for this work, including state funding but also appropriate private foundations in education, health care, and other sectors who might support programmatic and policy interventions on this subject.

We recommend the creation of a Task Force to examine these state laws and other, similar policies, and to consult with appropriate national experts, to determine an appropriate suite of state policy interventions for consideration by the General Assembly, the State Board of Education, DPI, and local boards of education and district officials.

What does not work might be a surprise: harsh, zero - tolerance policies, added security equipment and patrolmen — in the absence of the other interventions like changing the school climate and getting kids to practice positive interventions — do little or nothing, and sometimes actually increase rates of bullying.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Such remedies could consist of one or more of the following: (1) providing clear definitions and examples of threatening actions for which students may be suspended (including specifying the conduct that does not warrant a suspension); (2) requiring the administrator (s) to make specific findings prior to imposing the sanction of suspension, e.g., determining that the behavior in question falls within the scope of the prohibited conduct, and / or determining that other means of addressing student behavior are not feasible or repeatedly failed to bring about appropriate conduct; (3) providing teachers and administrators with training on how to administer the policy fairly and equitably; and / or (4) providing teachers with training in classroom management techniques and effective behavioral interventions that give them appropriate and culturally responsive tools to interpret and address the underlying behaviors.

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I disagree that at the very least VAMs might be useful when conducting large - scale research, because the other methods often used to measure gains or the impacts of large - scale interventions and policies over time seem to fare well as well.

We focus our research on investigations of animal agriculture, 2 but this intervention is also used to document animal abuse in other areas, such as laboratory research that involves live animals3 and the breeding of companion animals.4 We believe that undercover investigations have had significant direct effects in reducing farm animal suffering through corporate policy change.

And, in the long term, access to more complete information concerning the broadest number of a community's animals can inform other strategies — including those related to spay / neuter, housing policies, safety - net and intervention programs — that may also make euthanasia less likely.

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.

Finally, even if Ausubel is right and decarbonization magically jumps from 1 to 5 % / yr with no policy intervention other than R&D, that might not affect the marginal product of avoided carbon emissions much because the logarithmic concentration - forcing relationship offsets the ~ exponential forcing - damage relationship.

The Bill allows the Ministry of Education to establish policies and guidelines with respect to prevention strategies, training for all teachers and other staff, early and ongoing intervention strategies, procedures that allow pupils to report incidents of bullying safely and in a way that minimizes the possibility of reprisal, disciplining pupils, including policies and guidelines respecting the use of disciplinary measures and appropriate consequences for pupils who engage in inappropriate behaviour.

Canada's small and open economy, with its history of government intervention and foreign involvement, as well as Canada's other national attributes — its vast geography, sparse demography and high industry concentration — all have played key roles in shaping merger policy and law.

This 22 - page report examines ethical, legal, policy, technical, and other concerns with robotic weapon systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator.

Communicates trends and makes recommendation to HR Director for training, policies update, or other interventions.

Legislative, educational, policy and other interventions targeting physicians» interaction with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review

As it is a recommended treatment in health guidelines and national health policies, 27 28 group therapy has various applications in inpatient and outpatient clinics.29 For example, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence30 recommends group cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT) for people with mild to moderate depression who decline other low - intensity psychosocial interventions, such as computerised CBT.

Lynn A. Karoly and others, Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know about the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 1998); Steve Aos and others, Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth (Olympia, Wash.: Washington State Institute for Public Policy, 2004).

Tyler and others, Child Neglect: Developmental Consequences, Intervention, and Policy Implications (see note 9).