Sentences with phrase «policy focused almost»

In the 1980s and before, however, education research and policy focused almost exclusively on pedagogy while ignoring the content of instruction.

According to Dr Gasparrini, «Current public - health policies focus almost exclusively on minimizing the health consequences of heat waves.

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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).

Almost six - in - ten (57 %) say that Canada should emphasize environmental protection over economic growth, while the other 43 per cent say that economic growth should be the key focus of Canada's policies.

By following this approach we would broaden innovation policy from a longstanding, almost singular, focus on R&D to a more challenging, but more rewarding, multi-faceted micro-economic agenda.

«Until now, the debate has focused almost exclusively on who will pay what, when they will pay it and whether they will be better or worse off as a result of the Scottish Government's new income tax policy.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

There are striking parallels between Buhari's first stint in power as military dictator and his current democratic presidency - oil prices have crashed; appointments have favoured the North; important political allies have been displaced; governance is focused almost exclusively on a war against corruption; concerns over rule of law and human rights are re-surfacing; and economic policy is floundering!

Co-author Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «For five years, policies to address the financial crisis have focussed almost entirely on economic indicators.

But policymakers, pundits, and others suffering from PLDD who control our increasingly centralized education system focus almost exclusively on economic utility as the criteria for making education policy decisions.

For example, I started writing about: the implementation of educational policy, when research at the time focused almost exclusively on the development of policy; the importance of qualitative methods, as a complement to quantitative methods that at the time ruled at the Ed School; the unheroic dimensions of leadership, when the focus was on the bigger - than - life hero who, like the Lone Ranger, rode into town with silver bullets.

Policy initiatives in this area are almost all focused on increasing need - based financial aid, and that is the direction taken by the authors.

Question: Do you think that the evolving focus on policies aimed at improving the quality of our teaching force will continue, and move from almost a sole concentration on professional development (in - service) to more stringent quality controls for preservice education (admission and exit requirements), together with...

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.

Says WILL's Education Policy Director, Will Flanders, Ph.D., author of the study, «The debate over school choice is almost always focused on the so - called costs.

This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school quality issues.

The disclosures came in documents released December 22, 2010 — but most of the documents requested (which focused on how the White House «integrity» policy was arrived at) were almost completely blacked out or not supplied at all.

With very few exceptions, the US press has utterly failed to cover climate change as an ethical and moral issue while focusing on the scientific and economic arguments against taking action that have been made by opponents of US climate change policies for almost 30 years.

In the first 20 years of carbon policy, as noted above, policymakers» almost exclusive focus on «market - based» policy rather than the combined political - economy as a whole including direct public investment and utilizing the policy space available to monetarily sovereign government in the area of fiscal policy more generally.

Understandably, adaptation has long played the role of the ugly headed step - child of climate policy, as decision makers focused almost entirely on ways to significantly cut emissions.

In the meantime, during the debates about US domestic policy on climate change that have been taking place for almost thirty years, the US media has reported on climate issues almost exclusively by focusing on issues of scientific certainty about climate change impacts and economic cost to the US economy.

North Carolina has almost 10 years of policy and regulatory experience with the utility - scale solar industry, with NCSEA's work focused on data and analysis of these installations on the ground.

Climate policy - makers, both at the domestic and international levels, have focused almost exclusively on curtailing demand for fossil fuels energy, with scant attention, until recently, to the supply side.

The granddaddy of all cited blogs, Ohio State law Professor Douglas Berman's «Sentencing Law and Policy,» focuses almost exclusively on development of case law in the circuits since the Booker and Blakely decisions.

Standard Life actually exited the individual life insurance business in Canada almost three years ago, capping sales of new life insurance policies in order to focus on investments, group savings and group benefits.

All you have to do is stay focused on finding the right policy for you and your almost free car coverage is just going to be a click away.

Policy debates about child poverty and welfare reform, which once focused almost exclusively on single mothers and their children, have in recent years begun to train the spotlight on fathers.