Sentences with phrase «result of policy choices»

Can a message that acknowledges and presents the uncertainties of climatology, of predictions and projections both scientific and social, and of the results of policy choices be successful in triggering the precautionary principle?

Not exact matches

The degenerating passenger and pilot experiences aren't separate phenomena but in fact are intimately related, both resulting from policy choices that have propelled a decadeslong, ongoing makeover of the national air - transit system.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It is abundantly clear from every other country that has developed policy in this area, that the proposed transferability of leave entitlements [4.5] will not result in significant opening up of choices for families, without leave for fathers being available on the same use - it - or - lose it basis that leave is available to mothers.

Our results support a policy of offering healthy nulliparous and multiparous women with low risk pregnancies a choice of birth setting.

This has resulted in a «geographic lottery» in terms of women's choices and developments with some parts of the country offering midwifery led care, birth pools, home birth services, open doula policies, anomaly scans, early transfer home, DOMINO care and other parts of the country offering nothing beyond an obstetric led service.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.

Check out the results of our annual EdNext poll to see what Americans think of the Common Core, school choice, teacher policies, and more.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

As a result of these policies, students and families get more choice and innovation both inside the mainstream system and out.

The danger with your argument — that we may have no choice but to rely on test scores — is that it rationalizes ignorant actions by policy makers whose knowledge of school or program quality consists almost entirely of test score results.

As a result, it is unclear how different kinds of choice policies might expand the educational choices of children nationwide and in each state.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice has released the results of a national survey on education policy.

But the results of this investigation nonetheless advance our understanding of the effects of school choice policies by providing the first experimentally generated information on the long - term impact of a voucher intervention.

There are too many other factors affecting educational performance outside of school choice policy for the results of a single program to be conclusive.

The results here also matter for a broad range of choice policies.

The school district had no choice but to let her go as a result of a policy dictating that teachers be laid off based on seniority, not according to performance.

Reaching this conclusion was not an overnight conversion but rather the result of watching how the policies of choice and accountability played out in reality.

If the Philadelphia school district cares only about reading results, and places no weight on math results, our data could be used to support the policy choice that was made, provided no attention is paid to the statistical insignificance of the reading finding.

Kirp notes that «politicians have made market sovereignty and parental choice the policy bywords,» and as a result, in Florida, for - profit and faith - based preschools enroll 88 percent of the state's four - year - olds.

The takeaway for me is that we want to combine an aggressive effort to combat educational inequality with an epistemological modesty about the likely results of any given policy choice.

The results are what they are, and the scoreboard is overwhelmingly in favor of school choice policies.

In this report, authors Paul DiPerna, Lindsey Burke and Anne Ryland share the results of a 2017 survey of 1,200 active - duty military servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses to help policymakers and the public better understand this important constituency's perspectives on K — 12 education, school choice policies and the military profession as a whole.

Make no mistake, segregated schools of the past and present are a result of horrible policy choices that most people are willing to accept.

The results in Michigan are so disappointing that even some supporters of school choice are critical of the state's policies.

The findings stand apart from previous research conducted by groups like the National Education Policy Center that found many school - choice programs result in «an unsettling degree of segregation.»

This is not a recipe for providing all parents with a rich array of choices that are all of high quality, and the results in districts like Detroit, where DeVos» favored policies have ruled for some time, speak loudly to that.

«Support of public schools is important; involvement and action by several parents in a group can influence school policy - makers and result in decisions and choices than can benefit many children.»

In 2006, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy published the results of a survey of organizations working on school choice that I conducted; it found that 67 % of respondents think vouchers are more likely to be challenged in court, compared to just three percent who chose tax credits - and, by a margin of 53 points, respondents also thought that tax credits were more likely to survive a court challenge.

In her home state, Detroit's laissez - faire choice policies have led to a wild west of cutthroat competition and poor academic results.

(See chart below) This rapid growth is one clear result of State policy increasing funds and policy supports for public school choice programs that are operated by separate, non-traditional school districts such as CREC and charter districts.

It's always best to seek the advice of your financial advisor, tax advisor or your insurance agent when you are buying a life insurance policy, naming your beneficiaries, and making any changes to your policy, as to whether those choices may result in tax consequences.

It's a games console built by gamers for gamers and won the hearts and minds of many from the word go, with lots of prospective next - genners left feeling alienated by some of Microsoft's bizarre policies and choices for the Xbox One — many of which were reversed as a result of a backlash.

Vergne succeeds Jeffrey Deitch, appointed in 2010, whose background as an art dealer, without museum experience, made him a controversial choice, and resulted in artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha resigning from MOCA's board in 2012, as a criticism of Deitch's policies.

Among those who care about cutting the chances that humans will propel sustained and disruptive changes in the climate and oceans, this reality still tends to result in two mindsets: Raise public will to accelerate deployment of today's relatively costly non-polluting energy choices (both renewable and nuclear) or press for intensified and sustained investments and policies that can spur energy innovation.

The proposition that «science» somehow dictated particular policy responses, encouraged — indeed instructed — those who found those particular strategies unattractive to argue about the science.36 So, a distinctive characteristic of the climate change debate has been of scientists claiming with the authority of their position that their results dictated particular policies; of policy makers claiming that their preferred choices were dictated by science, and both acting as if «science» and «policy» were simply and rigidly linked as if it were a matter of escaping from the path of an oncoming tornado.

«So, a distinctive characteristic of the climate change debate has been of scientists claiming with the authority of their position that their results dictated particular policies; of policy makers claiming that their preferred choices were dictated by science, and both acting as if «science» and «policy» were simply and rigidly linked as if it were a matter of escaping from the path of an oncoming tornado.»

The CBSA relied on its unwritten policy, which arbitrarily assumed that the need for accommodation on the basis of family obligations was merely the result of choices that individuals make, rather than legitimate need.

A super top - up plan is a better choice since it takes into account the aggregate value of all claims in a policy year, as a result of which, even smaller and more frequent claims are payable.

With these types of policies, you'll have the freedom to place the policy money in certain funds, and thus your returns will be the result of the increase (or decreases) of your choices.

It's always best to seek the advice of your financial advisor, tax advisor or your insurance agent when you are buying a life insurance policy, naming your beneficiaries, and making any changes to your policy, as to whether those choices may result in tax consequences.

Your policy should compensate you for property destruction as a result of severe weather — which is why you should talk to a Trusted Choice insurance agent.

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