Sentences with phrase «policy interventions there»

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There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

There are also some evidence - based policies that could help outside the realm of gun control, including more stringent regulations and taxes on alcohol, changes in policing, and behavioral intervention programs.

The war in the Balkans was justified as «humanitarian intervention» against a policy based on the premise that there are too many Kosovars.

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.

Kleibeuker said that while ongoing reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which are designed to cut government intervention in commodity production, could not be stopped, there may be room for some manoeuvre.

It is being increasingly accepted by disciplines associated with infants, children and adults with tongue tie that there is now no place for «wait and see» policies when the frenum has been identified and diagnosed as abnormal, and early intervention is the optimal form of management.

There is a lot you can do to set yourself up for success in navigating through the policies and procedures of a hospital to have an intervention free birth.

We found that there had not been a review of the literature examining community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding in more than a decade, and we wanted to compile the evidence since then to inform nutrition programs and policies.

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

David Deming: The Achievement Gap: A Preschool Problem Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «There is a strong argument that the roots of inequality are in early childhood and therefore we could use a major shift in social policy toward early intervention.

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.

Along the way, there have been key policy changes to improve equity including an emphasis on early childhood development and child health, a focus on early interventions for special education and strict teacher professionalism.

Schools should have a policy in place to address issues with intervention orders and ensure that they do not inadvertently breach a duty of care owed to students, and, if there is no policy or plan, should consider implementing one.

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.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

And in education, history shows that there are risks associated with an aggressive push for new policies and interventions that reach beyond what is known to be effective.

In nearly three hours, there were just three memorable moments: the opening scene with the intervention team and the student's mother, the impromptu birthday party in the second episode, and the showdown among educators over the social promotion policy.

There, educators from around the world will discuss the most pressing issues in special and gifted education and share information in areas such as common core state standards; administration and supervision; autism spectrum disorders; emotional and behavior disorders and supports; instructional strategies for math, reading, and science; policy; technology; and response to intervention.

There have been reports on the likelihood of policy intervention by different levels of government to address -LSB-...]

When the exchanged rate is fixed, there is typically no intervention from the authorities or over monetary policy resolutions that will influence the exchange rate.

One interesting point relevant to policy about bets focused on global average temperature (GAT)-- it appears from this discussion that there is unanimous agreement among those who disagree on what future GAT will be that there is no need to discount for policy interventions.

If you study the conservative approach to climate change policy long enough, the implication that they are trying to participate in a scientific conversation starts to fade away and you realize the underlying logic they are using actually starts from the conclusion that regulation and government intervention are bad and proceeds to the premise that there is no real problem with climate change, at which point, they pick around for snippets to support their premise.

There are many well - intentioned policy interventions.

«There needs to be a regional conversation around intervention going forward,» said Jane Wilkinson, director of the Climate Policy Initiative's Indonesia programme.

Umm, it seems like the long history of bubbles, long waves, etc. long before there was anything like modern fiscal and monetary policy suggests that Hayek's prima facie case is not a case against intervention per se.

There is also limited knowledge about climate - related policy interventions that might affect future patterns of fossil - fuel production.

The point is that there's a coherent policy that was almost followed in Libya and could be followed in Syria for military intervention - do it defensively in support of forces that are Much Less Bad than the dictator.

HELD While decisions of a Home Secretary under the scheme are susceptible to judicial review, intervention by the courts should be highly guarded and limited to cases where there is an issue about the reach and meaning of a policy where a minister, in his application and / or interpretation of it, strays outside the reasonable range of meaning, or where there is ambiguity.

In particular, there is a significant coalescence between the stated principles of «early intervention and prevention»; [5] «using evidence and integrated data to inform policy»; [6] and using locational approaches.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Recently a number of Australian Government policy initiatives have been directed at addressing access and improving care for Indigenous Australians, including the unprecedented funding of $ A805.5 million for the multifaceted Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP) from 2009 to 2013.8 — 10 However, there is a general lack of research into, and evaluations of, interventions that aim to improve access to healthcare on which such interventions can be based.4, 7, 11

However, I am concerned that there is a limited understanding of what consultation should look like and until this issue is resolved, we will continue to see policies such as the Intervention imposed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a solution to our problems.

There are important lessons that we must learn, and which we can not afford to repeat in new policy approaches, such as the interventions in the NT.

Through a public comment process, it became clear that there was confusion in the field related to Ohio Part C early intervention policies, and policies related to home visiting for vulnerable families.

To this, we would add that there is an urgent need for research evaluating interventions that focus on equalising economic opportunity for families of children with ID including, for example, flexible work and inclusive childcare policies.

Although the facts are alarming, there is increasing evidence that supportive child and family policies, simple interventions, and increased investments can help save lives and protect development.

As regular readers of this blog now, there is an on - going debate about balancing Social Emotional Learning interventions with ensuring that these practices don't act as a replacement for needed economic, social and political policy changes (see The Best Resources Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and, in particular, my Washington Post piece, The Manipulation of Social Emotional Learning, to learn more about this discussion).

This is an important focus of study, because if all stressors are truly random (e.g., natural disasters), then there is little that can be achieved by changes in policy or other forms of intervention [16].