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)
In his 2015 book «Our Kids,» Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam details how better off families and communities provide what he calls «air bags» for their children — insulating them from shocks, helping them bounce back when they fall. (deseretnews.com)
UC Berkeley public policy professor David Kirp, a longtime education scholar, wrote in a recent New York Times op - ed piece titled «Rage against the Common Core» that «in states where the opposition is passionate and powerful, it will take a herculean effort to get the standards back on track.» (edsource.org)