Sentences with phrase «policy improvements at»

«The future forecast for children is repeated stagnation or even a further slide downward without new investments, improved models, and policy improvements at the local, state and federal level,» predicted Roy Miller, president of The Children's Campaign.

This article is intended to illuminate the scientific evidence for I - ECMH policies; examine issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I - ECMH services; and propose a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.

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Second, improvements in rich world living standards may, for the moment at least, come from the capture of policy low - hanging fruit.

NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald chalks up the incredible improvement in optimism to «new policies aimed at providing regulatory relief to the business community.»

The early stages of this improvement were already apparent at the time of the August Statement on Monetary Policy, and subsequent information from most parts of the global economy indicates that conditions have strengthened further.

As Draghi pledged that a decision on policy changes will be announced next month, Jaisal Pastakia, Investment Manager at Heartwood Investment Management comments: «In many ways, the ECB can afford to leave investors «hanging», a situation that would not have been palatable a couple of years ago and an indication of the significant improvement in the fundamental backdrop.

I am not disputing that young players can not help to improve the team, and contribute to succeeding at the highest level, but it is an approach that needs to be used in tandem with a more ambitious transfer policy, where a marked, genuine and immediate improvement is made to the team; similar to the one Bayern Munich use, or how Arsenal in recent windows have bought key and top quality players (Özil, Sanchez, Cech and now Xhaka).

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.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

This laudable policy also makes it possible for government to plug the loopholes in our revenue collection system at the ports as evidenced in the available data which shows for instance that, revenue at the port has increased from GHc130 million in the first week of September 2016, to GHc213 million in the same period for 2017 representing a whopping 56 % revenue improvement for the State.

At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, The Association for a Better New York will host a breakfast with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who will discuss the progress his borough has seen since he first took office in 2009 and offer policy suggestions for the improvement of his borough and the city.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

In a speech read by Director of Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Information, Patricia Dovi Samson, on his behalf, in Bolgatanga at the «training of trainers» Agric Minister, Owusu Afriyie Akoto said the census when completed will provide reliable statistics for planning and monitoring food security and livelihood improvements.

«The need [for infrastructure improvements] is clearly tremendous,» said Adam Forman, a senior researcher at the Manhattan - based public policy think tank Center for an Urban Future.

Josh Wallack, a deputy chancellor for strategy and policy at the city's Education Department, said that these policies and others, taken together, create a comprehensive improvement strategy for the entire system.

Whilst it is very disappointing that, once again, the leader assumes the right to appoint the chair of the national policy forum (although last time there was at least a formal election by the forum), Angela Eagle will probably be an improvement on Peter Hain.

In order to tackle bringing innovation into the legacy sectors, Bonvillian said multiple approaches have to be engaged simultaneously, including improvements to and spending on research and development, policy changes to eliminate pricing advantages and rules that keep the legacy sector afloat at the cost of lost innovation and reimagined governmental innovation programs that carry ideas beyond the research and development stage toward commercialization.

Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.

«U.S. schools show steady improvement in math and science, the U.S. is not at any particular disadvantage compared to most nations, and the supply of S&E [science and engineering] graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally,» continues Eye, which was co-authored by two labor force experts, B. Lindsay Lowell, director of Policy Studies for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Harold Salzman of UI's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

«Disabled people are under - represented in higher education in the U.K.,» says Steve Haines, policy manager for education at the DRC, «but there have been improvements made since the Disability Discrimination Act came into force for post-16 education.

Conveners at NAS's Second Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers were officially charged with evaluating developments since the publication 4 years ago of the landmark book by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) that examined the postdoc situation and recommended improvements.

«While both bills are improvements — and people may argue about that — it doesn't create a system where we're going to be able to efficiently get the answers about risks of all the chemicals out there,» says David Konisky, an associate professor of public policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

«With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement,» said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

In fact, ACOs achieved meaningful improvements for patients in some key areas,» said lead author of the study J. Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy and medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

About the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire The Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) was established in 1987 to provide a coherent university - based focus for the improvement of knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of persons with disabilities and their families.

economic development Policies aimed at improving the lives of people through changes in their income and quality of life (as measured by improvements in their health, safety, education and more).

Vehicle efficiency improvements via effective standards and policies could reduce annual CO2 e emissions from the US, China, and the EU by 1.3 Gt at a savings of about $ 135 billion per year by 2030.

«Keeping a record of accomplishments can be very motivating, especially at times when weight loss or improvements in fitness happens slowly,» says Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.

A conceptual failure lies at the heart of ed reform's underperformance: the mistaken assumption that education policy, not classroom practice, is the most important lever to pull to drive enduring improvement.

I am a professor at the University of Oregon and the director of the Center for Educational Policy Research and the Educational Policy Improvement Center.

In 2004, McCown served as lead author of the commission's bipartisan report, Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action, which recommends policies to overcome existing barriers and make improvement efforts on school issues like low standards.

Despite a lack of any substantial evidence of these policies leading to educational improvement at scale, Trump and DeVos seem to view choice as the transformative strategy to improve educational performance.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.

When President Bush was asked at an April 10 news conference what single domestic policy goal he would most like to achieve if he wins a second term, he chose educational improvement.

Bill is the director of the Center for School Improvement & Policy Studies at Boise State University.

Join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Education Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi Mathias, the director of the QRIS National Learning Network, as they discuss current early - childhood policy, efforts underway to bolster preschool quality, and suggestions for improvements at the local, state, and federal levels.

He has served, inter alia, as a Professor of Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, Counsel to the U.S. ambassador to India, Legislative Director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement.

Last week, BBA and the Learning Policy Institute got a first - hand look at a district embedding quality early childhood education in its comprehensive school improvement plan.

In maths, the 2011 results showed a slight improvement at all levels, which would suggest an upturn in grades in GCSE maths if the policy known as «comparable outcomes» holds.

Given its ability to trample any promising education improvement — or clear the way for its implementation — it was high time to put governance at center stage of the policy conversation.

At the policy design level, he said that schools responded to accountability in unintended and unproductive ways, frequently focusing on proficiency thresholds and «bubble» kids rather than system improvement.

«Districts look at policy initiatives as only attending to instruction and fail to marshal the leadership and organizational resources of schools to support that instructional improvement work,» Cosner said.

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At - Risk (CRESPAR) Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) National Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) National Research and Development Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC / GT) Research Reports from the National Research and Development Centers

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

In order to examine our quantitative findings more thoroughly, we turned to our qualitative data for an in - depth look at district level policies and practices intended to engage parents and community members in school - improvement efforts and, specifically, efforts to increase student learning.

He has also worked as a Program Coordinator for the Hunt Institute — a nonprofit that works at the intersection of politics and education policy, and a Program Officer for EdVestors — a nonprofit that helps advance improvements in urban schools through strategic philanthropy.

He is also the faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and practice.