Sentences with phrase «social policy challenges»

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

Chronic Stress: Workers» Compensation in the 1990s, The Social Policy Challenge 7, by Terry Thomason et al..

The Rock in a Hard Place: Atlantic Canada and the UI Trap, The Social Policy Challenge 9, by Doug May and Alton Hollett.

Social Canada in the Millennium: Reform Imperatives and Restructuring Principles, The Social Policy Challenge 4, by Thomas J. Courchene.

Unemployment Insurance: How to Make It Work, The Social Policy Challenge 2, by Christopher Green et al..

The Case for Change: Reinventing the Welfare State, The Social Policy Challenge 1, by William G. Watson, John Richards, and David M. Brown.

Paying Our Way: The Welfare State in Hard Times, The Social Policy Challenge 3, by Richard G. Harris et al..

When We're 65: Reforming Canada's Retirement Income System, The Social Policy Challenge 13, by John B. Burbidge et al..

Family Matters: New Policies for Divorce, Lone Mothers, and Child Poverty, The Social Policy Challenge 8, by Martin D. Dooley et al..

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Tough Choices for Canadian Labor Law, The Social Policy Challenge 10, by Roy J. Adams, Gordon Betcherman, and Beth Bilson.

Income Polarization and the Myth of the Declining Middle Class in Canada, The Social Policy Challenge 12, by Charles M. Beach and George A. Slotsve.

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«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

There is no narrative that sets out the longer - run economic and social challenges, and there is no discussion of how these challenges are interrelated Eliminating the deficit has been the cornerstone of the government's fiscal policy since 2010.

The major challenge for the federal government in the budget expected this month is to maintain its commitment to progressive social and economic policies in the context of a major shift to the political right in the United States.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

What Max Weber calls an ethic of responsibility includes the challenge to find just and helpful social policies in order that a society can be responsive to the hurts and needs of people in a practical and realistic way.

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

A: I think the challenge here will be for the creators and policy - makers to agree upon who should be held liable in cases where robots cause social harm, and some common standards to potentially limit liability.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

Subsequent panels took the challenges for democratic debate and social change in the neoliberal period that were presented in the earlier discussions and brought them to bear on concrete examples of resistance to neoliberal policy.

He has contributed to various edited collections on the Single Market, the Social Challenges facing Europe, The Case for a Social Investment Strategy and Britain's European Policy.

The emotional / polemical description «social apartheid» might be a valid way to dramatise / challenge this segregating policy, though I personally would avoid it.

For instance, radical change in the way we understand and manage state assets could help tackle some pressing social and economic policy challenges.

We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The authors agree that there are continuous challenges facing South Korea, including the obvious security issue of North Korea, as well as domestic struggles to further increase state spending on social policy.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The President revealed that Ghana has taken up the challenge of the SDGs, and has captured them in its co-ordinated programme for economic and social development policies, which, in accordance with the dictates of Article 36 (5) of the Constitution of the Republic, will be presented to Parliament in its next session, starting in October.

According to him, social protection policies remained a mix of policies, programmes and projects designed for individuals and households throughout lifecycle aimed at ensuring that poverty, hunger among other social challenges are eliminated in the society.

He said policies like that would help with the social - services demands and housing challenges the neighborhood faces.

Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»

In their paper, Fischhoff and Davis, a research scientist in engineering and public policy who received his Ph.D. from CMU in social and decision sciences, outline the challenges of explaining the uncertainty that is part of all scientific research findings.

Paez returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management programs the opportunities and challenges of advancing reforms that seek greater social justice.

We explore the variety of content available to young people and their families; document the developing child's patterns of use and understanding of media; examine theories and methods for assessing media effects; review research on the role of media in shaping individual identity, social relationships, and responses to challenging issues; and analyze public policies that affect media creators, consumers, and citizens.

Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

Without focused support and resources, military children face social and emotional challenges, difficulty understanding policies and adjusting to curriculum and school climate, difficulty qualifying for or continuing with special education services, and elevated stress and a risk of depression and anxiety.

The series will explore where politics and policy meet real people's lives — in a city generating change and innovation in social policy, education, and public safety — to meet national and local challenges.

Education policy needs to take account of the differing experiences that children have in their communities and at home, and not assume that schools alone can overcome the multiple and significant challenges posed by poverty and social disadvantage.

As students who have a particular need for and significant challenges with certain social and emotional competencies, youth with disabilities will be deeply impacted by changes in practice and policy that promote SEL.

Finding the right balance as we create new policies on how Social Media is used in schools, by individual teachers and with students will challenge some of our previous ideas.

Academic and social supports comprise policies and practices to assist students at all education levels with nurturing their talents, building new skills, and mastering tough challenges.

A social studies teacher may participate in a moderated #sschat on historical thinking, use the #FergusonSyllabus hashtag to research how to talk with students about systemic race issues, exchange ideas with digital colleagues, challenge local or federal policy by contacting legislators or informing the public, or organize a face - to - face Edcamp unconference in the community (see Swanson, et al., 2014, and Carpenter, 2015b, for more).

Each year, keynote speakers such as Jonathan Kozol, Jeff Duncan - Andrade, Michelle Fine, and Pedro Noguera have challenged and excited participants by connecting outside research on educational policy, pedagogy, and social justice.

In this webinar, you'll discover how state - level policies have been developed to help schools address social and emotional learning in the classroom, how states and districts are measuring student progress with social and emotional learning competencies, and the opportunities and challenges that states and districts face in supporting students» social and emotional learning development.

Why, then, do the majority of district, state, and federal education policies prioritize annual assessment results over equally important factors, such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments?

Formerly incarcerated scholar and Soros Fellow Danny Murillo asks, what role do formerly incarcerated students play in challenging the stigma of incarceration, advocating for policy change and seeking social justice?

Only with a focus on both effective state education policy and school district practice will Colorado be able to meet the political, social, and economic challenges of this century.

To meet the challenges of both program provision and individual participation, we must make universal parenting education — and the social - emotional learning at its core — standard policy, supported throughout all sectors of society: public, private and civic.

«Academies, reading, teachers «progress, IT underused and evidence ignored» Professor Robert Cassen, expert in social policy and social exclusion at the LSE, on some policy challenges emerging from Ofsted «s annual report Academies Addressing the social achievement gap needs many initiatives, including some for school improvement.