Sentences with phrase «public agenda research»

Although Americans of all backgrounds believe education is the key to the good life, Public Agenda research suggests that many don't think schools are delivering on the promise for black and Hispanic students.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

In «The Uniform Salary Schedule» (Forum, Winter 2005), Brad Jupp cites Public Agenda research and identifies us as a «pro-teacher group.»

Not exact matches

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publiResearch summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publiResearch Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publiresearch publications.

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

* 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

A new survey by policy research nonprofit Public Agenda found that nearly half of New Yorkers have tried to determine the price of their medical care before visiting a doctor or hospital, but only one in five have sought to compare prices across multiple providers.

The left - leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) argued that although the localism agenda was promising, it will be largely meaningless unless the coalition delivers «real powers with new funding streams that give local people more control over how their taxes are spent».

In The Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center committed to promoting values, vision, and agenda for the common good and democratic control of public goods and serPublic Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center committed to promoting values, vision, and agenda for the common good and democratic control of public goods and serpublic goods and services.

Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Forum commented: «The issue of growing public access to personal genome data is currently high on the agenda of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum.

«The whole thing of creating an organization to promote the governor's agenda is unique,» said Blair Horner, a longtime state government watchdog for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

He advances an agenda for research and action grounded in the struggle for social and economic rights, an agenda suited to public health and medicine.

A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.

Since 2004, the AAAS Center for Public Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commPublic Engagement has worked to further awareness of science and the scientific process and increase public input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic input into scientific research and policy agendas, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between policymakers, the general public, and the scientific commpublic, and the scientific community.

«This supplement synthesizes available information for pediatricians to inform their clinical practice, and will help guide the research agenda and shape public policy for addressing the impact of Zika going forward.»

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

American Geophysical Union adds legal counseling to its Fall Meeting agenda, citing scientists» need to defend against increasing attacks on research, correspondence and public statements

«Hopefully, research like ours demonstrates the benefits of linking public health and sustainability agendas, rather than considering each separately,» he said.

PLOS Medicine publishes research and commentary of general interest with clear implications for patient care, public policy or clinical research agendas.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research is engaged in original scholarly research, policy analysis and agenda - setting public diResearch is engaged in original scholarly research, policy analysis and agenda - setting public diresearch, policy analysis and agenda - setting public discourse.

With an annual value of around 100 M $ US, GRiSP strategizes and aligns the rice research for development agenda of a global partnership of over 900 partners worldwide from the governmental, nongovernmental, public, private, and civil society sectors.

With Anne Lyerly, MD, an obstetricianbioethicist at the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Ruth Faden, PhD, a public healthbioethicist at Johns Hopkins» Berman Institute of Bioethics, Little has worked to highlight the problematic exclusion of pregnant women from the broader research agenda.

He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the result of higher levels leading to a deficiency of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition Research Agenda.

Looking to create a «customer driven» research agenda, the Education Department's research branch has launched a series of public meetings with educators, parents, and policymakers around the country.

Addressing the opening session of today's event, Najat Vallaud - Belkacem, France's Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research, said that her country endorsed the four principles of the Agenda: the right to free and compulsory quality education; the affirmation that education is a public responsibility; the need to give adults lifelong learning opportunities; and the priority given to gender equality.

With the exception of Public Agenda's report, «Stand by Me,» I have found little research on teachers» perceptions of alternative compensation.

Other highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tanks.

In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization called Public Agenda released a report about trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.

When asked what the bigger priority for schools should be, 80 percent of black parents chose raising academic standards and achievement, according to the survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public - opinion research firm in New YorkPublic Agenda, a nonpartisan public - opinion research firm in New Yorkpublic - opinion research firm in New York City.

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

With ongoing economic challenges facing the field of higher education, the policy research organization Public Agenda has taken a critical look at university leadership across the country.

New York - based Public Agenda refers to itself as «an innovative public opinion research and public engagement organization.&Public Agenda refers to itself as «an innovative public opinion research and public engagement organization.&public opinion research and public engagement organization.&public engagement organization.»

Researcher John Immerwahr, who led the Public Agenda study, noted that of the 39 university trustees interviewed anonymously for the study, just two represented private universities with high research activities whose profiles would be similar to Penn's.

This was a nationwide study prepared by Public Agenda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased public opinion research, for The Pew Charitable TPublic Agenda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased public opinion research, for The Pew Charitable Tpublic opinion research, for The Pew Charitable Trusts.

A 1999 survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research group, found that 68 percent of blacks favor vouchers.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

Years of public opinion research conducted by Public Agenda suggests that in addressing these questions, education policymakers should not necessarily redesign education to suit changing demograpublic opinion research conducted by Public Agenda suggests that in addressing these questions, education policymakers should not necessarily redesign education to suit changing demograPublic Agenda suggests that in addressing these questions, education policymakers should not necessarily redesign education to suit changing demographics.

Public Agenda, a public opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive prinPublic Agenda, a public opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive prinpublic opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive principal.

A new report by the nonpartisan research and policy group Public Agenda addresses these questions by examining nine high - achieving, high - poverty public schools acrossPublic Agenda addresses these questions by examining nine high - achieving, high - poverty public schools acrosspublic schools across Ohio.

There is ample public record to substantiate this, but you either are too lazy to do the research or have an agenda to your posting.

We in the scientific community are thoroughly committed to understanding all dimensions of the challenge, aligning the research agenda with options for solutions, informing the public, and supporting the policy process.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

Thus, the old attitude — we produce science and it is up to the public to figure out how to use it — has reappeared at NCAR and the NSF unit that supports it at a time when most other science organizations around the globe have sought to incorporate social science into their research and application agendas.

It will certainly be interesting to see how all this plays out, in terms of the scientific research agenda, media reporting, private sector investments, and public policy.

It also allowed Harper to prevent the public knowing about research that went against his own anti-climate agenda.

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«Bush public relations appointees were muzzling scientists at other agencies, or altering scientific information in official agency reports to fit a preconceived ideological agenda,» Otto reports, with reference to a New York Times article detailing the actions of an oil industry lobbyist in the White House environmental office to manipulate goverernment climate research communication.

Do you mean direct public involvement in research agendas, or that researchers should continue to run the show but be more conscious of the public interest?

Alarie: technology doesn't invent itself, time, money, risk to develop this; need incentives for investing in this; no agenda then to hold the mirror up to ourselves; best if academics involved, i.e. no commercial interests; see potential to nationalize this as a public good, natural monopoly emerging; like energy from nuclear power; government's not doing this research

When I help people with research or do a training session, I like to remind them that law reform bodies often deal with important public policy issues that are not on the government agenda but may nevertheless require critical analysis and potential reform.