Sentences with phrase «policy focus on»

Maintain current policy focus on: affordable health / dental insurance and universal developmental screening

I see the climate policy focus on global mean temperature (eg.

With increased policy focus on teacher diversity, equal attention must also be directed towards the lack of diversity within school leadership.

If anything, the half century of research on student achievement has strengthened arguments for a policy focus on teacher quality.

«Since 9/11 the U.S. has had a major policy focus on reducing the danger of nuclear terrorism by increasing the security of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and removing them from as many locations as possible.

While there remains more of a political and policy need to explain how the economic pie will be grown, key themes of the Clinton (Bill) and Blair years, than Miliband often seemed to acknowledge, there is also an enhanced political and policy focus on how the pie will be distributed, which portends much, including an IDS - like rehabilitation for Miliband.

«We want to support this work because 85 percent of the population of Kaduna State consists of young people below the age of 35 and our biggest challenge; and our economic policy focus on creation of jobs.

A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.

Indeed, the Google decision seems harsh to American lawyers in part because, unlike U.S. antitrust law, European competition policy focuses on harm to companies as well as to consumers.

Across the country, enthusiasm for personal fitness — buoyed by government policies focused on health and wellness — is taking hold.

Almost all of the public discussion at the time on the appropriate setting for monetary policy focused on the inflation outcomes excluding the influence of the changes in the tax rate (Graph 4).

gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.

Its investment policy focuses on European high - quality businesses run by one - in - a-kind type of managers with a strong track record for compounding a company's worth over time.

Editor's note: Abby works in policy focused on disability issues.

(While most of these policies focus on high school sports, there is a huge need for similar policies in youth sports, and we'll delve into that more another time.)

Readers may be surprised to learn, as I was, that the AAP really has no formal policy focused on the feeding of flavored milk to children, other than brief mentions in its policy addressing sugar - sweetened beverages in schools, where flavored milk — along with plain milk, fruit and vegetable juices and water — is cited as a «healthful alternative» to sodas, and in the academy's statement on increasing children's bone density and calcium intake.

Their core policies focus on direct democracy, civil rights and access to information.

«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.

Domestic policies focusing on education, employment and health were introduced by the administration.

(Washington, DC)-- Today, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D - NY) announced the launch of the Democratic Caucus National Security Task Force to advance smart, strategic, and strong national security policies focused on protecting the United States, the American people, and our interests abroad.

While current energy policy focuses on preventing greenhouse gas emissions, the results show that freshwater impacts also need to be considered when deciding future national and international energy policies.

Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.

Much of the discussion concerning American education policy focuses on the achievement gap between high - and low - performing students.

Since the benefits of large - scale investments in human talent accrue powerfully to society as a whole, and are not necessarily visible to individual parents, students, local or state officials, it is important for the national government to keep policy focused on this level of aggregation.

Abstract: The Secretariat of Education of Bogotá since 2013 has been implementing an educative policy focused on citizenship and civic coexistence, fostering the formation of critical, empowered and participative citizens, who think globally and act locally.

Indeed, the evidence we report strongly suggests that public policy focused on the content and organization of what is taught is a relatively desirable means of preventing illiteracy and its associated ills.

Very few of those differences had anything to do with teachers» paper credentials, yet that's the only thing that state and local policies focused on.

Much of American education policy focuses on the need for students to develop deeper content knowledge and an ability to apply their knowledge and skills to tasks and situations inside and outside of school.

Because the Promise had a clearer effect on behavior than on grades for KPS students overall, the authors conclude that «policies focused on making higher education more affordable may be usefully supplemented by helping students better understand how their behavior affects their future.»

If this hypothesis is correct, our findings suggest that Promise - style policies, and other policies focused on making higher education more affordable, may be usefully supplemented by helping students better understand how their behavior affects their future.

But the direction of policy has been the encouragement of schools to «opt - in» to become academies rather than policies focused on limiting the ability of local authorities to take part in school services.

Former DC Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee has gained national attention for her tough but controversial reform policies focused on large - scale firing of DC teachers.

Ideas for NYC Principals: A Step - by - Step Approach to Distributed Leadership at Creston Academy for Responsibility and Excellence is one out of five case studies written for the New York City Department of Education's Office of Instructional Policy focusing on the impact of the Citywide Instructional Expectations (CIE) on school leaders, teaching and learning, and student achievement at a group of schools.

I joined A + in 2011 and promote state education policies focused on ensuring all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

Approximately $ 4.35 billion in taxpayer revenues later, we now have educational policies focused on teacher, but no longer student accountability, with similar results (or the lack thereof).

Reform policies focus on improving student achievement.

Current education policy focuses on a failed strategy of school and district «turnarounds;» characterized by staff shake - ups and pedagogical practices that focus narrowly on raising test scores.

It then considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required.

It is time to reconsider that assumption, to embrace true educational pluralism, and to support policies focused on increasing high - quality educational options across all educational sectors — public, private, and charter.

We live in a low - yield environment spawned by a «new normal» of worldwide monetary policy focused on stimulating with ultra-low or even negative interest rates and massive liquidity injections into the financial system.

Some are focused more on the initial death benefit, while other life insurance policies focus on the cash value growth, which may create a larger death benefit when all is said and done.

The best policy focuses on the booms, and seeks to limit excesses.

Most environmental policies focus on prices, consumption and subsidies to solar and wind power, which are not at the cutting edge.

Tom is a policy adviser to indigenous communities on environmental protection and more recently on climate policy focusing on mitigation, adaptation and concerns of false solutions.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-issues-statement-research-paris-agreement-0602 Secondly, regarding «international policy focused on immediate, expensive changes to the global energy infrastructure using inadequate technologies».

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

The past 15 years have seen some good progress, with a steady expansion of mandatory policies focused on improving energy efficiency.

Alongside mitigation, then, we also need policies focused on adaptation, on making sensible adjustments to the unavoidable changes that we now face.

The broader exercise, which has been conducted several times now, consistently ranks as the most effective investments policies focused on addressing disease and malnutrition, which could save the lives of millions of people around the world.

Second, policies focused on putting a price on carbon faired poorly in the exercise.