Sentences with phrase «practical impact of policies»

They're attuned to the challenges that kids can face, the easy - to - overlook value of a choral group or an arts project, and when the practical impact of policies seems arbitrary or unfair.

Not exact matches

Written for policy makers and activists as well as school leaders and educators, The Working Class is both a timely survey of the impact of current policies and an invaluable source of practical advice on what can be done to better support disadvantaged children in the school system.

For other policy or practical purposes, however, it may be sufficient to know only the combined impact of selection and training.

With support from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we have drafted and continue to produce white papers and guidance documents addressing key policy and practical concerns that impact the success of students with disabilities in charter schools.

On October 11, 2016, Dr. Mwangi Githuri, the Director of Biodiversity and Social Monitoring at Wildlife Works, leading teams assessing environmental and social impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national levels.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

In practical terms, some odd coalitions can form for specific policies between people who are worried about energy supply or the impact of energy imports on the U.S. economy and people who are worried about climate.

Attempts to significantly influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human - caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all other environmental and social threats.

As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at that.

The Staying Put policy should set out the practical, financial, tax and benefit issues (for both the foster carer and the child) which impact on the decision to extend foster care as Staying Put care when a looked after child reaches the age of 18 years.

But since I'm speaking chiefly to an audience of real estate professionals and not policy analysts, I thought I'd share a more practical section of the book (though I'd love to hear your thoughts on universal basic housing and how it might impact the industry, for good or bad).