Sentences with phrase «used by policymakers»

This report endeavors to answer that question by assessing the viability of the projections of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its Annual Energy Outlook 2017, which are widely used by policymakers, industry, and investors to make long - term plans.

Since then the IPCC has produced a series of Assessment Reports, Special Reports, Technical Papers, methodologies, and other products that have become standard works of reference, widely used by policymakers, scientists, and other experts.

As critics of «global warming» science have pointed out for years, there are serious issues with the surface temperature datasets that result in corrupted global average temperatures that are currently used by policymakers.

This resource by ECS can be used by policymakers and their staff as a reference guide around topics in P - 3 approaches.

(The NAEP, in contrast, is used by policymakers and researchers alike.)

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

Given that happiness is widely regarded as integral to social progress, the study is increasingly being used by policymakers to design and implement legislation.

The initial survey, which was published in 2004, was still being used by policymakers despite its age.

These results can also be used by policymakers and employers to develop or alter laws, policies, and work environments in ways that promote men's involvement in unpaid labour.

Not exact matches

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been widely cited by academics, policymakers and journalists, while its massive data set has been extensively used by researchers worldwide.

In February, Mexico's central bank launched a US$ 20 billion currency hedging program — broadly similar to a policy used in 2015 by Brazilian policymakers to stem a fall in the Brazilian real — which had the advantage of providing support for the peso without draining the country's foreign - exchange reserves.

El Salvador offers clear examples of the diversity of options used by U.S. policymakers to influence hearts and minds.

Four years after the moratorium on Terminator technology was reaffirmed by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), proposals to develop and commercialize «genetic - use restriction technologies» (GURTs) are back on the agenda for policymakers and the biotechnology industry.

As well as supporting practitioners and policymakers through our training and consultancy programmes, we have a stable of publications which distil key messages from the research evidence into practical resources to be used at the frontline by people working with fathers and / or addressing fatherhood in their work.

Better research also may increase the use of evidence by service policymakers and service providers.

«Training up» by educating administrators and policymakers on the importance of training and food service operations (e.g., using annual reports, hosting a general session with management, creating district newspapers / newsletters, and holding monthly meetings with administrators).

The TOAR database of surface ozone metrics is now publicly available and can be used by scientists and policymakers around the world to quantify the impacts of ozone on human health and vegetation.

On the other hand, these findings have a more applied scope: policymakers could use them to measure and forge convergent memories in communities affected by epidemics of biological or social nature, like knowledge about the Zika virus or the propagation of stereotypes.»

«We need to better understand the risks of marijuana use, particularly its effects on brain health, to inform decision making by teenagers and adults as well as policymakers.»

The use of the tool and images obtained from it will help coral reef managers to communicate about the threats posed to reefs by climate change with their colleagues, stakeholders and with policymakers.

So even friendly policymakers resisted giving them the keys to funding instruments traditionally used by districts to build and maintain impressive, permanent structures.

In a few states, policymakers have taken a creative step toward solving this problem by giving public - education money directly to K — 12 parents in a liberal but use - restricted and monitored account that encourages families to treat the money as their own.

Yet the sense of relief does not last, for these islands of clarity are invariably surrounded by a broad sea of circumspection and equivocation that leave one adrift, wondering just how reliable they and similar assertions are, and just how policymakers might go about using this book to improve educational outcomes for minority children.

But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education - IES Amount: $ 1,000,000 Dates: 7/1/14 — 12/31/18 Summary: The Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness (MICCR) will promote working alliances between researchers and policymakers in the use and interpretation of data and evidence to guide decision - making and improve student outcomes through meetings with MA Gateway City school and government leaders, as well as collaboration between researchers and teachers in the target communities.

«How to fix reading in the era of ESSA» and «Using ESSA to fix reading: Implications for state policy» by Robert Pondiscio and Lisa Hansel With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state and district policymakers have an opportunity to increase achievement and equity by supporting knowledge - rich instruction.

This report serves as a guide and framework to early childhood policymakers considering formative assessment, outlining issues for consideration in implementing formative assessment.This guide provides a practical roadmap for decision - makers by offering several key questions to consider in the process of selecting, supporting, and using data to inform and improve instruction.

The report goes on to explain that the new budget uses borrowing, one - time revenues, and fund transfers to close budget deficits and cover operating expenses and reports that, «By relying on these measures, rather than recurring revenues to close the state's budget gap... state policymakers have opened up a larger revenue hole in future budget years.»

Additionally, ESSA includes multiple funding streams that could be used by state and local policymakers to implement programs, build educator capacity, and support further research into students» learning mindsets and skills and their effect on student achievement.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

Released by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal initiative that aims to inform educators and policymakers as they work toward improving education, the compiled resources also include an instructional video that shows how to use the WWC when making decisions about new math programs, policies, and practices.

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

By using these five questions to guide their assessment of test scores policymakers can help states and districts ensure an enriching, equitable and effective education for every student.

The event brought together members from research alliances throughout our five - state region, staff members from eight different regional education laboratories across the country, and national thought leaders to impart knowledge and insights into the ways research alliances can promote the use of evidence by local and state practitioners and policymakers.

Although the states that adopted Common Core's standards did so legally (usually by a vote of their state boards of education), many state policymakers deliberately minimized public awareness and discussion of the standards» academic deficits in order to ensure their passage and continue their use.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

His empirical scholarship is heavily used by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, and his research has been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Distinguished Special Education Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Education Research Division.

This Framework is intended for use by teachers, schools, and districts, as well as researchers and policymakers, to help inform decisions around assessment, accountability, curriculum, instruction, professional development, program design and resource allocation.

Compelling Financial Case: By showing a clear return on investment to state policymakers, scaling the TN SAILS program represented a promising use of state resources.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»

'' Industry News You Can Use» articles that appear in the weekly APPA E-Updates provide APPA members with the most current issue - tracking available and suggest action to be taken by individual members in order to promote their interest with policymakers on legislative and regulatory issues.

For years now, they've used their credentials and organizational imprimatur to mislead policymakers and the public not only about the «threats» posed by free - roaming cats, but with their suggestion — nothing more than a vague implication, of course — that they have a feasible alternative.

SO, coming back to the issues of immediacy and inertia, our hope is that the sort of commitment accounting described and demonstrated in the paper will be taken up by other analysts and used to evaluate the long - run climate impacts of current capital investments, in turn allowing policymakers to confront these distant implications of their decisions in the present.

The important question to ask, I argue, is how such an intolerant culture was allowed to develop in powerful political and academic institutions, and why the alarmist case was preferred by policymakers, who continue to make use of the binary view of the climate debate.

These capabilities can be used by anyone from policymakers to developers, and they support growth of wind energy development worldwide by providing much - needed technical data for all geographical areas in a user - friendly, easily accessible tool.

The question that is addressed in my post is, with respect to multi-decadal model simulations, are global and / or regional climate models ready to be used for skillful regional projections by the impacts and policymaker communities?

The World Energy Trilemma 2017: «Changing dynamics — Using distributed energy resources to meet the Trilemma challenge», published by the World Energy Council, in partnership with global consultancy Oliver Wyman, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has identified three key focus areas for policymakers and industry leaders to consider building a resilient energy system of tomorrow.

In 2016, U.S. policymakers demonstrated leadership in this area by introducing several bills that would provide commercial deployment incentives for carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) technology.

The IPCC have done the same thing by using the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) to oversimplify, exaggerate and misrepresent what the science actually shows.