Sentences with phrase «policies around the use»

I am not an unreflective advocate of technology — I am in favour of schools setting behaviour policies around uses of mobile devices and, while I believe there are some great learning tools, others are gimmicky or have no impact either on learning or workload.

We recommend this webinar for any legal professional involved in making decisions and policies around use of online technology including (but not limited to):

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They can hide whatever you do over that connection from an ISP — and are often used to get around regional blackout policies for certain streams — but they're usually slower, and setting them up is a process.

The survey, released Tuesday, polled 500 small business owners from around the country and found that half of them are in favor of a policy that would allow employees to use earned sick time when they or an immediate family member falls ill or needs preventative medical care.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL / Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.

Catherine Mann, the OECD's chief economist, urged policymakers around the world to prioritize structural reforms that «enhance market competition, innovation and dynamism,» as monetary policy has been used alone as the main tool for far too long.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

This is only the third time the bank has used this tool since it adopted a «yield - curve - control» policy in September 2016, targeting a 10 - year yield of around zero.

It also said: «The safeguarding policy was not followed as no»cause for concern» was recorded around the pupil's use of alcohol.»

To better understand the factors that facilitate — or obstruct — community use of school kitchens, the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaborative initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, commissioned a legal and policy analysis of such arrangements around the country.

most «policies» don't allow you to move around, use a laboring pool, change positions or eat or drink when needed.

«Is it going to be used to try and manipulate people around domestic policies?

The email asked for feedback from supporters about the president's campaign and signaled the organization may stick around for future use as a policy advocate tool under Obama's second term, or even further down the road as a blueprint for national Democratic candidates.

If Corbyn does lose then I think this will be down to how much people dislike Corbyn's leadership and his public perception rather than the ideas in this manifesto, but do you think that the more right - leaning aspects of the party will use this to attempt to sweep away all the Corbyn policies that are proposed in this manifesto in a bid to be seen as «more electable» when the next election comes around?

The Tories are waiting to announce their policy on this issue until Copenhagen is concluded but speaking on the phone to Andrew Mitchell a few moments ago the Tory aid spokesman accused Brown of «fiscal incontinence» in the way he was spraying around figures from one week to the next without explaining either from where the money would come or for what specifically it would be used.

Labour says the policy would cost the taxpayer around # 1.4 bn per year and that it would stem a decline in bus use by those within the age bracket since the Conservatives came to power.

There's the example I used in my column: the party's drive towards property ownership is based around more and more spending, and implicitly critiques Thatcher - era policies such as the Right to Buy.

«The high use of marijuana is particularly noteworthy, given recent policy changes around state marijuana legalization efforts,» said Jarlenski.

... The policy question around the use and abuse of these grants is a larger issue for the Congress.»

This approach is a quick and accurate method of aggregating the work carried out by thousands of scientists around the world and using it to guide policy at a continent - wide level.»

Those looking for more up - to - date information on the evolution of the Plan B model and progress toward its goals should tune into the website of the Earth Policy Institute, the think tank started by Brown in 2001 and currently used as a central node in the growing network of thousands of entities and individuals around the globe supportive of making Plan B into reality.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

«That means there would be tremendous benefit to patient advocacy groups, health care organizations, providers and policymakers working together to develop clear guidelines and policies around the responsible, positive use of open recordings.»

We support the consensus - based, bipartisan energy code provision contained in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which strengthens national model codes that are already certified, adopted and in - use by 44 states and several localities around the U.S.

Courts have already used science to influence climate policies around the world.

Countries around the world are using these findings to inform their national policies.

Remember, prevention is the best policy, so don't wait around until the pain starts, be proactive and use this list to avoid sciatic nerve pain all together!

Trump advocated the use of stop - and - frisk tactics in Chicago and other crime - ridden cities around the nation, claiming New York City's stop - and - frisk policy worked very well and «brought the crime rate way down.»

An acceptable use policy is a document that is present in every school district around the country.

[v] I found the comment very useful because it was organized around specific policy arguments, using research findings to explain why.

With RTTT, Tennessee is stepping around this problem: they are now developing online instruction in the use of TVAAS, and a new State Board of Education policy has relaxed restrictions on alternative teacher licensure.

We used Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents to explore socio - historical policies around immigration, and used William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to tackle issues around political dissent.

The use of high - stakes achievement tests around the world have created controversy among teachers, parents, students, administrators, policy makers and heads of state.

Beginning in January 2015, Hill, along with the Center for Education Policy Research Senior Project Manager Barb Gilbert and Instructional Specialist Daniel McGinn, will observe teaching using Samsung tablets placed in 460 middle school classrooms around the country.

Third, I want to use my research to inform policy around early childhood and early intervention programs so that schools become more equitable and accessible for students from their first years of education.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

The conference opened with a policy forum which included influential speeches from the most significant representatives of the conference; the second day passed around the theme «Participation for Protection», using panels and round tables as a way to share knowledge and to engage in constructive debates.

Schools around the country use students» opinions to shape their policies and practices.

Results from the Digital Innovation Index, a practical evaluation tool by Michael Fullan and Katelyn Donnelly, will be used as a guide to focus policy making and decision making around digital innovations.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

Authors of the policy brief found that ESAs appear to be an end run around state constitutional prohibitions against using public funds to support religious activities.

The Center on the Developing Child works to achieve breakthrough outcomes for children around the world in partnership with organizations committed to using the science to inform policy and practice and to drive innovation.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

In almost every state in the United States, and in many countries around the world, there is serious policy and political focus on standards - based reform and the use of increasingly «high - stakes» assessments for students and, in turn, for educators responsible for student performance.

In the second go around for California Gov. Jerry Brown, the state's education policy has bucked the national trend toward using standardized testing to evaluate schools and teachers, writes Matt Barnum at The 74, a nonprofit education news site.

Sessions will be themed around educational threads including: giving students voice, using policy knowledge, innovating education and using your voice.