Sentences with phrase «recent policy paper»

In a recent policy paper, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended school water fountains have less than 1 ppb of lead.
Schleifer praised the plan as a «critical first step» and said it included much of what Educators 4 Excellence recommended in a recent policy 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.

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«Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy rates and longer - term rates in the most affected countries (like the U.S.) were never reduced to such low levels,» wrote William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD in Paris, in a recent paper.
While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
As I have trawled through the extensive recent press reports and academic and policy papers about trade, I've come up with a list of statements in favor and against the protectionist policies suggested by Peter Navarro, and by the Trump administration more generally.
«One important policy question on which most economists appear to agree, however, is that there is very little to be said in favour of taxing corporations.1 Many would agree, for example, that the title of a recent paper — «The Corporate Income Tax and How to Get Rid of It» (Vickrey, 1991)-- adequately conveys the main message of the extensive economic literature on this subject.
Very much aware of these movements within the National Academy, Bishop Ting told us of a recent academy document that was even more broad - minded than the «Basic Viewpoint and Policy» paper — one that goes even further in acknowledging religion's potential creativity for the good of society.
I agree wholeheartedly with the policy summed up by one mission agency in a recent working paper:
As the recent Monash Business Policy Forum paper noted, the law on unconscionable conduct has been difficult to interpret.
As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.
The DTI says it is «all for» a prototype project, but that a decision on funding is being delayed by changes in government policy, announced in the recent White Paper on science and technology.
In a recent paper published in the journal Space Policy, my co-authors Dimitra Atri and Julia DeMarines and I propose the development of a METI protocol in order to guide the construction and transmission of messages to extraterrestrials.
With the recent release of new policy papers, some flesh is being added to these bones.
With a steady background in writing and articulating public opinion; the author has been a frequent national and international representative to events of human rights and policy significance and contributed academic papers and ideas to many a seminar, conference and workshop in recent years.
We provide the first recent, comprehensive look at Arizona's charter schools in a new paper released last week, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the peer - reviewed journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
I published a blog post late last month questioning the numbers in a recent paper on teacher shortages from the Learning Policy Institute (LPI).
In my recent paper, I argue that enhancing high school policies could be one lever for policymakers.
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 briefing paper provides more information on school sport policies and more recent developments in the provision of PE and sport in schools.
This paper by Dr. Tim Hudson helps you understand how to successfully review educational research and know how to thoroughly investigate the study, ask probing questions, and access the fine print about how a program «improves scores» or «doubles growth» using a clear rubric and three educational research examples, including a recent Center for Educational Policy Research at Harvard University study of DreamBox Learning Math.
Some said it may even by dropped completely, along with other major reform policies unveiled in the recent white paper.
A 2012 Mackinac Center for Public Policy survey found that many districts ignored the law, and a recent paper out of Western Michigan University also found that «substantial policy evasion occurred, with most superintendents not implementing merit pay» in part because thePolicy survey found that many districts ignored the law, and a recent paper out of Western Michigan University also found that «substantial policy evasion occurred, with most superintendents not implementing merit pay» in part because thepolicy evasion occurred, with most superintendents not implementing merit pay» in part because they can.
Another recent paper, by Susan Dynarski, Joshua Human, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, compared the cost - effectiveness of various policies, including policies at various ages, in increasing college enrollment.
I sent a host of climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate policy.
The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.
Justin Gillis has written a news article putting the paper in context with other recent research on Antarctic dynamics and sea level, as well as with policy debates about the current value of fossil fuels against the momentous costs that could attend greatly expanded use:
Related and relevant - a recent paper by FCEA Co-Executive Directors Wil Burns and Simon Nicholson, «Bioenergy and carbon capture with storage (BECCS): the prospects and challenges of an emerging climate policy response»
and b) the urban heat effect (see recent paper by McKitrick), the consensus on a warming trend would appear differently; add to that the fact that some analysis show that the 75 - 95 higher temperatures may be partly due to effectiveness of anti-pollution policies, and you may realise that a consensus on higher temperatures may be based on sand rather than anything else.
If climate change, as the Pope's recent encyclical claims, is a profound global justice, ethical, and moral problem, this paper identifies questions that should be asked of opponents of climate change policies to expose the ethical problems with their positions.
When the Independent gave front - page coverage to the discredited scientist Andrew Wakefield's suggestion that government policy was responsible for a recent measles outbreak in Swansea, the paper was roundly condemned as irresponsible.
These papers are being used to persuade politicians that the recent warming is unprececented so said politicians will put in place policies that suit some people's agendas.
As discussed in a recent paper (http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/2/245.abstract), «standard benefit — cost practice by U.S. government agencies sums the benefits of a policy across the political jurisdiction whose citizens will bear the cost of the policy».
As projected in my recent solar policy paper, polysilicon production is ramping up domestically.
We haven't focused on green marketing / corporate policy issues much of late but a recent post over on the Environmental Paper Boy (EPB) raised some interesting questions in these areas.
A recent paper published in the journal Marine Policy details the staggering amount of plastic and other debris found at the bottom of the world's deepest ocean trench.
The reality is rather different, as Dr Crockford, a Canadian zoologist and polar bear expert, summarized in a recent paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The ECJ could not remain indifferent to the global trend to widen the category of crimes that «should not go unpunished», according to recent International Criminal Court (ICC) guidelines (see Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation of the Office of the Prosecutor, 15 September 2016), and therefore consider «serious» financial crimes as crimes against human rights, with the primary objective of ensuring «jointly with the relevant national jurisdictions, that the most serious crimes committed in each situation do not go unpunished» (ICC, Policy Paper, para. 1 (8)-RRB-, through the implementation of «effective» measures.
In my last post I discussed the different options for reforming investor - state dispute settlement put forward in a recent UNCTAD policy paper and argued that enacting institutional reforms without addressing substantive law is unlikely to fully address investment law's legitimacy problems.
The National Association of Bond Lawyers released a paper giving its members tools to help issuer clients develop written disclosure policies and procedures in response to recent Securities and Exchange Commission cases against issuers.
This paper surveys recent changes in Canada's immigration policy: the expansion of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, the introduction of more rigid language requirements in the economic immigration stream, and changes made to our asylum system by Bill C - 31, Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act.
His recent paper with the Canadian International Council, China's Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy, states,
If the SRA does not rise to the challenge, the recent paper from the College of Law's Legal Services Policy Institute has shown how easily an alternative regulatory body could be established.
Step 3: If Policy document not received for more than one year from the date of issuance, please submit the request form along with Indemnity on Rs. 100 stamp paper, Photo identity proof of Policy holder, a recent color photograph of the Policy Holder at your nearest Aviva branch.
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This research is reviewed by Sharon Bzostek and Audrey Beck, «Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in Fragile Families,» Working Paper 08 -11-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2008); and by Robert Wood, Brian Goesling, and Sarah Avellar, «The Effects of Marriage on Health: A Synthesis of Recent Research Evidence,» report prepared by Mathematica Policy Research for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2007.
In a recent review paper, the Nobel Laureate James Heckman and the economist Tim Kautz summarize the evidence: «The larger message of this paper is that soft skills [e.g, non-cognitive skills] predict success in life, that they causally produce that success, and that programs that enhance soft skills have an important place in an effective portfolio of public policies
A recent Federal Reserve Board white paper, The U.S. Housing Market: Current Conditions and Policy Considerations, concluded that stabilizing and restoring the health of the housing market is critical to a broader economic recovery.
This paper assesses the current and future challenges facing retirees, demonstrates how a reverse mortgage can be used to provide a supplemental source of retirement income, and explains the potential impacts current monetary policy and recent changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program may have on the reverse mortgage market.
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