The department's under secretary for health, Dr. Robert A. Petzel, said in a letter to the inspector general that the V.A. generally agreed with the recommendations and that it would initiate a timeliness review of its entire medical system, not just the four regions analyzed by the inspector general.
Other recommendations suggest that it would be useful to provide the teaching staff with training that would allow them to better understand the cultural and linguistic diversity present in the student body (Aguirre, 1991) and how this diversity relates to school dropout (Fanoiki, 2014).
Some recommendations suggest that it would be useful to review the disciplinary systems in centers to ensure that they are not overly punitive (Tien, 1978) or strict (Prawatrungruan, 2002) in order to do away with the proven link between expulsions and other penalties, and dropout (Thaniel, 1989).
With respect to adapting vocational education programs to students' needs, one of the more interesting recommendations suggests that it would be useful to carry out programs in a language different from the official one so as to prevent immigrant populations from being those who most drop out (Aguirre, 1991).3.3
That month, in a flurry of appearances for NBC, General McCaffrey repeatedly ridiculed this recommendation, warning that it would turn Iraq into "Pol Pot's Cambodia".
Dr. Thomas Laughren, the team leader for the F.D.A.'s division of neuropharmacological drug products, said that the agency took the panel's recommendation "very seriously" and that it would probably issue such a warning "sooner rather later".
Another set of recommendations that were analyzed suggest that it would be helpful to establish ties between vocational training and employers.
The commission made wide-ranging recommendations that it said would help speed up reconciliation and urged the military and its leaders to "strictly refrain" from involvement in politics.
The Hinxton Group, an international consortium that examines issues of stem cells, ethics, and law, issued half a dozen recommendations that it says would make stem cell research more efficient and more beneficial to the common good.
We hope that the AHA will improve its standards of oversight, and we have provided the group with recommendations that would enable it to better protect horses and other animals on sets.
