Sentences with phrase «recent policy interventions»

Recent policy interventions have tended to focus on enabling students to select alternatives to their assigned schools, most prominently private schools (through vouchers) and charter schools.

While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).

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Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Felipe Barrera - Osorio's A822 course, The Consequences of Educational Policy Interventions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Recent Impact Evaluations, was not only a mouthful to say, but a challenging one to keep up with as well.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

As noted in the recent policy brief published by the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, many of the highest - need elementary schools in the district lack important supports such as a nurse, a psychologist, a counselor or instructional coach, or intervention programs for struggling students.

Collectively, these articles illustrate recent efforts to promote policies, develop intervention strategies, and create professional development opportunities that reflect the advances in the science of early childhood development.