Sentences with phrase «than some financial incentives»

But he said it will take more than financial incentives to improve student achievement and that merit pay «is hard to get right.

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Improving the lives of others is a powerful motivator and far more likely to coax success than merely pure financial incentives.

One study found that people who had a financial incentive to lose weight lost 14 more pounds than those who don't have such incentives.

It was initially a surprise for me to find that employees are motivated by praise more than they are by financial incentives.

The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.

The metric of «cash flow from operations as a percentage of revenue» has been used for more than five years as a financial metric in HP's long - term incentive programs, and HP believes that it continues to be a key metric that both drives and demonstrates improved financial performance within the company.

Chemists — especially those with the appropriate financial incentive — typically work faster than legislators.

This relationship creates a perverse incentive for «Too Big To Fail» banks to take more risks than they would otherwise — a key cause of the financial crisis of 2008.

«Why have so many incentives for individuals in the financial services sector ended up destroying value rather than creating it?

Ocean - going vessels that reduce their speed to no more than 10 knots (11.5 mph) starting 20 nautical miles from the entrance to the New York - New Jersey harbor earn financial incentives and recognition.

«More than 80 percent of large employers use financial incentives for health promotion.

Their findings show that care for older patients was no better at hospitals that had been operating under pay for performance programs for more than a decade compared with those which had only been under financial incentives for less than three years.

Over the course of the study, nearly 40,000 gift cards were dispensed to more than 9,000 patients at care clinics that offered financial incentives.

«We want them to think school is cool,» explains Shakur, cofounder and executive director of a unique afterschool program for urban schools in Boston (including Smith Academy) that for more than a decade has racked up impressive results in turning around low - achieving students, in part, by using financial incentives.

This provides a financial incentive for teachers to continue delivering the best standards of education in the classroom, because this will provide great teachers with incentives to remain as teachers rather than taking management responsibilities which come with larger salaries.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.

Higher compensation earlier would attract to the profession people who could potentially become more - effective teachers, while fewer financial incentives to stay would supposedly lead ineffective teachers to leave earlier than they otherwise would.

«Past efforts to control schools by contract, court decree, regulation, and financial incentives have made schools more responsive to outside authorities than to the students and parents whom they serve,» it asserts.

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

Districts could provide these individuals — who are more likely to stay in the local community than those trained or raised elsewhere — with incentives, such as training opportunities and financial support to pursue teaching licensure in college - access courses.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

Research has shown that the students of National Board Certified Teachers learn more than students in other classrooms, which is why many states and districts offer financial incentives for teachers to pursue certification.

By the following year, thanks in part to financial incentives dangled by the Obama administration, more than 40 states had adopted them.

Principals said that money was not a motivator for them to work harder or change their practices, and they «were much more likely to attribute changes in their leadership behavior to support and feedback than to financial incentives» (Hamilton, et.

By the following year, thanks in part to financial incentives dangled by the Obama administration, more than 40 states had adopted them, and schools and teachers scrambled to throw out their old lessons and adapt to the more rigorous expectations.

Since then, SCASDP awards have helped more than 300 communities develop projects tailored to their own air service needs, such as providing financial incentives to carriers, conducting studies on the possibilities of expanded service, and carrying out marketing programs to promote existing local service.

Owners of more than 1 million Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee SUVs with rear - mounted fuel tanks linked to several deadly fires can either trade - in their vehicles for above - market value, or opt to take a «financial incentive» to have a trailer hitch installed, the department said.

There's no incentive to pay to borrow a book if it's not a better financial choice than simply buying it.

Yeah, their new system isn't perfect, but it seems much, much better and fair than what they had before where 80 page novels that weren't even read were making as much as 800 page ones, and where the incentive was to write lots of short things — with no direct financial reward for them being actually read — over write short or long, doesn't matter — just keep the reader reading.

And while a new home will surely be more expensive than a used one with the same specifications, there are some financial incentives.

Falling prices also resulted in homes worth less than the mortgage loan, providing the lender with a financial incentive to enter foreclosure.

There are a lot of insurance options out there, and you usually have to go through an insurance broker who has a financial incentive to steer you into something that costs more than it should.

As you can see, there is a big financial incentive to invest rather than pay down your mortgage.

HARP provides a financial incentive to encourage mortgage lenders to refinance the loans of homeowners who owe more on these loans than their home's current values.

Government initiatives to stem the country's mounting foreclosures are hampered because banks and other lenders in many cases have more financial incentive to let borrowers lose their homes than to work out settlements, some economists have concluded.

Currently underway, this year's vessel speed reduction program is largely modeled of off the 2014 trial, but has been expanded spatially to include a whale - safer transit zone south of the islands as well as scaled - up fiscally to provide financial incentives for more than 65 transits to - date.

We promise never to accept any financial incentive (other than in - game currency / content that's necessary to write a review) for coverage of any kind.

Providing policy and financial incentives to use plant biomass for energy runs counter to the goal of protecting and regenerating ecosystems and thus threatens to greatly exacerbate global warming rather than mitigate it.

¶ Responding to falling oil industry revenues, the government of Algeria unveiled a suite of new programs meant to improve the country's financial situation, including a solar PV facility build = out, and energy efficiency programs, and incentives to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas rather than petrol / gasoline or diesel.

Our report highlights reasons efficiency should be expanded in these markets, rather than reduced (as might be the case if other resources receive new financial incentives), and the beneficial role that efficiency resources are increasingly playing in wholesale markets.

The calculations are less accurate because they use historical pricing information but they are still more accurate than any other solar calculator on the internet in terms of their estimation of solar costs, financial incentives and rebates, and your potential savings and payback period.

As such, there is little financial incentive to feed back into the grid, and so storing some energy, however little, is more economically viable than sharing it with your neighbor.

Using tax incentives for landlords to upgrade energy efficiency, with a focus on outcomes rather than inputs or a combination (with an energy audit and / or proof of declining utility usage as the rewarded metric) could move many who have no personal financial incentive, other than the slim possibility of getting a higher rent, for making efficiency upgrades.

According to the results so far of the latest Law Times online poll, more than 75 per cent of respondents agree with MacKenzie's call for consideration of leaving articling as is with financial incentives to boost the number of positions.

These rewards include financial incentives like being able to keep the billables earned for work on behalf of clients, rather than having a majority of those billables siphoned to partners or having it go towards expensive overhead for large support staffs and real estate.

Advocates have long pointed out that this creates a financial incentive for employers to «farm - out» unsafe work to temp workers, who are often making less money, and are typically from more marginalized groups than their fully employed counterparts.

This can be explained by the larger financial incentive for reduced speeding than for reducing vehicle travel.

Many questioned the financial incentives of Ethereum Foundation members who had bought into The DAO, but as Alex Van de Sande wrote, they had a vastly larger stake in ethereum's success than in The DAO.

So it sounds like there's no additional financial incentive to rent to Sec 8 other than a portion of the rent being guaranteed.

With so many foreign buyers looking to buy off - plan for financial incentives, tech - savvy developer groups have leveraged the newest virtual reality technology to raise their off - plan sales higher than before.