Sentences with phrase «political research center»
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said Clinton's 13 percentage point lead in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, is the difference in the race.
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The political - research company is currently at the center of a massive Facebook data scandal, which may have exposed the personal data of up to 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica.
Nanya Springer is associate director of the Center for Political Accountability and is responsible for working with our shareholder partners, engaging the corporate community, and overseeing research projects including the annual CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.
It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 percent of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news (such as PBS) increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»
It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 % of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center aimed to examine political polarization.
More Americans want more religion in politics, according to a new Pew Research Center study exploring the «growing appetite» for churches endorsing political candidates and other intersections of church and state.
That's my reading of a large - scale survey of political and social views by the Pew Research Center, «Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typologpolitical and social views by the Pew Research Center, «Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political TypologPolitical Typology.»
The late Bruce Borthwick was professor emeritus of political science at Michigan's Albion College and was a senior research fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research, in Amman, Jordan, research fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research, in Amman, Jordan, Research, in Amman, Jordan, in 2002.
As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center is an independent, non-partisan research - based voice that educates the public and political leaders about the unique developmental needs of babies and toddlers.
According to the author, Yasir Arafat considered intellectuals and the socio - cultural institutions as henchmen of his party (Fatah) and supporters of his own political interests, whereas Anis Sayegh, as General Director of the Research Center, refused any political relationship of subordination.
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: UK's political center ground could be further to the left than thought, research suggests
Larry Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center lauded the benefits of campaign finance reform, presenting original research that indicates how small donor matching and public funding of elections has increased political participation and competition in New York City elections.
Also at 6 p.m., Sen. Liz Krueger hosts «Counterattack: The Media, The War on Women, and How to Fight» forum, with speakers including Baruch College Survey Research Director Micky Blum, lawyer and author Ariel Chesler, comedian and writer Katie Halper, and political analyst Tanya Melich, Baruch College Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th St., Manhattan.
«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.
Gerald Benjamin is a political scientist and the director of a research center at SUNY New Paltz that bears his name.
BY E.J. McMAHON Founder and research director, Empire Center You don't have to be a fan of the federal tax deal to realize its impact on states like New York has been misrepresented by most of its leading political critics.
John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York, said REBNY is banking on the «investment theory» of political campaigning.
The proposed National Center for Science (NCN), to be located in Krakow, is meant to be free from political pressures and would use an international peer - review system modeled on those of the European Research Council and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The study is part of a critical body of work on risk taking and decision making among older adults from the USC Davis School of Gerontology, named for AARP founder Leonard Davis and the leading research center in the world on aging and its biological, psychological, political and economic dimensions.
It could have political and societal consequences if there are regional shortages of climate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Fouresearch to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research FouResearch Foundation.
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's historic nomination as the first woman presidential candidate of a major political party in the U.S., women continue to face obstacles in politics and the workplace, according to a national poll conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Powerful political signal There are several points to consider regarding the imminent lofting of China's Tiangong 1, suggested Dean Cheng, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center in Washington, D.C.
Cengiz Erisen, a research associate in the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, along with fellow researchers David Redlawsk (University of Delaware) and Elif Erisen (Hacettepe University), looked at the effects of presenting people with information that conflicted with their political ideologies.
Other aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coverage.
At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.
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Cannabis Science Inc. (CBIS) and Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center (DF / HCC) Announce Joint Research and Drug Development Agreement; Collaborative Research Dana Bash (/ ˈ d æ n ə / DAN - ah; born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American journalist, anchorwoman and political correspondent for CNN.
Ann Arbor, MI About Blog CPS is a non-partisan research center which helps provide information to enhance political knowledge.
Marc Tucker, president and CEO of the National Center for Education and the Economy, a not - for - profit educational research organization, says the U.S.'s weak standing in labor skills shown in the report offer a blueprint to understanding the current political climate.
Each of its three centers (for research, statistics, and evaluation) would be headed by a presidential appointee also serving a fixed term and under statutory stricture to guarantee that agency activities were «free from ideological agendas and undue political influence.»
Her research interests center around the economics of education, including fiscal federalism, desegregation and political economy.
The work by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) on the No Child Left Behind Act, high - school exit examinations, and other education policies uses exactly the same research methodologies as those employed by the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures (controlled by both political parties), and other entities.
For example, IES provides the foundations of factual information and research with the collection of clear, consistent, high - quality data through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult education.
As a new political and policy era dawns in Washington, the status of the nation's schools remains stable, though still earning a grade of C from Quality Counts 2017, the 21st annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.
Further, a recent survey conducted by the Education Week Research Center (2017) found that 65 percent of school and district leaders have avoided political activities out of concern that they might create problems with their jobs.
During a Senate subcommittee hearing last week on research in vocational education, Marla Peterson, dean for research at the University of Tennessee, claimed that last year's bidding process on the national center's contract was unfairly affected by «the direct political action» of the American...
Washington — The U.S. Education Department's bidding procedure on a contract to administer the National Center for Research in Vocational Education was tainted by political maneuvering, according to an official from the University of Tennessee.
Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»
Research both on the political left (Rothstein and Center for American Progress) and the political right (the American Enterprise Institute) tend to agree.
The results of a poll released last week by the Education Week Research Center reveal that teachers are evenly distributed across the political map.
Martha Abele Mac Iver (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan) is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools.
To further the organization's mission in her capacity she draws upon a wide depth and breadth of practical and theoretical knowledge and experience gained from: ten years serving the SC Department of Education Title I, Part C Education of Migratory Children / Youth program, five years as the state coordinator and five years as a state recruiter / outreach worker; working as an Spanish / English interpreter / translator for the University of SC's Center for Child and Family Studies HABLA project and an undergraduate professor in Political Philosophy and Ideology and World Politics; serving in the United State Peace Corps for three years in Mali, West Africa to improve women's financial sustainability and promotion of girls education; employment at the UN headquarters; living / studying / working / conducting research in the Philippines, Syria, Mali, France, and Spain; obtainment of a PhD in International Relations from the University of South Carolina in 2012; a MS in International Business, and a MA in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University in 2001; and a BA in International Studies with a focus in Management, French, and Spanish from the College of Saint Elizabeth in 1999.
Ann Arbor, MI About Blog CPS is a non-partisan research center which helps provide information to enhance political knowledge.
Artist Dorit Cypis» FabLab (looking for patterns), is a living laboratory centered around Cypis» research and reflection on her past 30 year artistic practice of exploring the psycho, physical, social and political implications of identity and social relations.
The exhibition tells the story of progressive ideas and aesthetics in the modern world through visual artifacts generated by the seismic events of 1917 and drawn from premier cultural institutions in California: the Getty Research Institute, the Wende Museum of the Cold War, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
From «social to speculative; technical to theoretical,» the participating teams lead intellectual and architectural practices that not only situate the US as a leading center of critical research at the heart of the debate on citizenship, social conscience, and a just society, but also as a place at the intersection of political action, public policy, and changing notions of nationality.