Sentences with phrase «policy paper stating»

As their policy paper states, «Studies have shown that excessive media can lead to attention problems, school difficulties, sleep and eating disorders, and obesity.»

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But while the world's second - largest economy, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State» in its new white paper, may have it's own economic and foreign policy interests in mind, experts cautioned that doesn't mean a geopolitical standoff is coming.

Internet development in Singapore, states the paper, has been very fast even though the government has implemented less - than - ideal policies.

He stated that, although digital currency as a 21st century analog to paper currency is a «fascinating idea,» there are a number of policy issues that need to be analyzed first.

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this paper on midwifery policy the United States.1 It represents several years of work by a large group of researchers to identify and measure the ways that state midwifery policies affect the overall performance

Through research papers, policy briefings, commentaries and conferences, the think tank seeks to educate and inform New York State policymakers, news media and the general public.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new paper, Budget Cuts vs. Tax Increases at the State Level: Is One More Counter-Productive than the Other During a Recession?

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

Governor Cuomo announced that green policies at state agencies saved New York taxpayers $ 19.6 million in the first five years, while also reducing paper use and waste and increasing recycling.

The Employment Policies Institute has placed a full - page ad in today's New York Post, calling out Cuomo for his «uninformed views» on the $ 15 minimum wage, while the labor - backed «Fight for $ 15» campaign has pro-increase front - page ads in numerous papers across the state (including a commemorative Daily News wrap).

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

But it is quite clear from the numbers chosen that they come from Avik Roy, a conservative policy analyst whose paper on the NY Health Act concludes that the state should defer to Congress on health care policy.

Governor Cuomo announced that implementation of green policies at state agencies have saved New York taxpayers $ 13 million while substantially reducing paper use and waste, and increasing recycling.

Greg Clark, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and David Cameron have just launched the Conservative Party's policy paper on energy.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

The continued marketing and use of experimental stem cell - based interventions inside and outside the United States is problematic and unsustainable, according to a new paper by science policy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest Univepolicy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest UnivePolicy and Wake Forest University.

In so doing, the paper states, the new method could help «improve policy targeting relative to conventional VAMs.»

Within the year a European Commission policy paper will suggest how member states can enhance the science education they provide and so enrich European scientific culture.

A paper on the findings showed, among other things, that the restrictive policies regulating gun shows in California resulted in fewer illegal «straw» purchases — in which someone buys a gun on behalf of a person legally barred from doing so — than in other states.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

Although there is no new money, paragraph 1.17 of the White Paper states that: «The government will continue to allocate public resources to science and engineering on the scale necessary to finance the policies in this White Paper.»

Their paper takes a look at the diverging trajectories of cannabis and tobacco policies in the United States and attempts to explain some of the reasoning behind the different paths, while discussing possible implications.

«Efforts to mitigate emissions take a variety of forms at the state and local level and may have substantial impact even in the absence of a unified national policy,» the paper notes.

The paper was co-authored by Joseph Simons - Rudolph, a teaching assistant professor of psychology at NC State; Christine Brugh and Eileen Schilling, graduate students at NC State; and Chad Hoggan, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and human development at NC State.

In a new paper, education policy expert Martin West and advanced doctoral student Beth Schueler, both of Harvard Graduate School of Education, reveal that Americans tend to vastly underestimate the average salary of a public school teacher in their state.

Last November, CALDER released a paper exploiting a similar policy change in Washington state.

The plan, modeled on a policy paper issued earlier this year by the Progressive Policy Institute, would provide states and districts increased flexibility, demand stricter accountability for results, and tarpolicy paper issued earlier this year by the Progressive Policy Institute, would provide states and districts increased flexibility, demand stricter accountability for results, and tarPolicy Institute, would provide states and districts increased flexibility, demand stricter accountability for results, and target...

As the Digital Learning Now and EducationCounsel paper points out, Louisiana districts are not alone in taking advantage of state Course Access policies to meet the needs of their students.

Misjudging Budgets In a new paper, education policy expert Martin West and advanced doctoral student Beth Schueler, both of Harvard Graduate School of Education, reveal that Americans tend to vastly underestimate the average salary of a public school teacher in their state.

Coincidentally, that places the United States in 32nd place among the 65 nations of the world that participated in PISA, the math test administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), my colleagues and I report today in a research paper available at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance.

A set of seven papers was commissioned to examine experiences with and lessons from large - scale performance assessment in the United States and abroad, including technical advances, feasibility issues, policy implications, usage with English - language learners, and costs.

But some worthy repairs can be made around the periphery of current policy — and the three set forth in our new paper are well worth undertaking by states and districts across the land.

Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions: The Innovation Lab Network State Framework for College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness, and Implications for State Policy (PDF)(CCSSO White Paper).

In a recent policy paper, we argued that private schools participating in voucher programs should have to administer their state's tests to their scholarship students.

Together, we created a series of recommendations outlined in a new policy paper, «None of the Above: A New Approach to Testing and Assessment,» focused on four key areas for schools, districts, and state policymakers.

Second, as Patrick McGuinn pointed out in a 2010 American Enterprise Institute paper, Race to the Top «shifted the focus of federal education policy from the [state] laggards to the leaders.»

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.

In Section 2331 of Chapter 113 (A), defines terrorism as activities that: involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (B) ``... activities that involve violent... or life - threatening acts... that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and... appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and... (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States...» (10) Subsequently paper will go deeper in counter-terrorism legislation of US.

The Federal Government has given a strong indication that education policy and delivery will remain the responsibility of the states and territories in its issues paper titled Roles and Responsibilities in Education.

This paper offers guidelines around the states» roles in promoting these information systems, and in refining policies that should treat different teachers differently.

The paper makes a number of recommendations for federal and state policy that would reform state tenure laws and district tenure processes:

Innovation Amid Financial Scarcity: The Opportunity in Rural Schools In this paper, published by the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, Marguerite Roza explores spending and outcomes data of rural schools and highlights policy implications for states seeking improved outcomes for all their districts in the context of limited resources.

The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation In this paper, part of the Productivity for Results Series published by George W. Bush Institute, authors Jon Fullerton and Marguerite Roza examine the curious practice of states funding school districts for...

Last week we released the first in a series of papers looking at important progress afoot in the state of New Hampshire: «From policy to practice: How competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire.»

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

High - stakes testing is a «failed policy initiative» that does not produce gains on other measures of student learning, researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe argue in a recent paper.

This paper describes how our partnership with a state policy research alliance in the Northwest illustrates these four partnership tenets in practice.

Out of School and Unprepared: The Need to Improve Support for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood In March 2011, the ARISE Coalition, a group of parents, educators, advocates and other supporters of students with disabilities coordinated by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), released this policy paper calling on New York City and New York State to follow the law with respect to transition planning and to give post-secondary transition for students with special education needs the same high priority they are beginning to give college and career readiness for other students.