Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has also advocated for China to aim for peaking carbon emissions in 2030. (greenleapforward.com)
Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.» (discovermagazine.com)
Joshua Cowen, an education policy professor at Michigan State University, says this smaller merit - pay approach (think $ 500 bonuses) does not appear to produce the same kinds of results as the «wholesale» multi-faceted merit pay changes incorporated in D.C. public schools. (michiganradio.org)