Sentences with phrase «academic think tanks»

These well - endowed academic think tanks — located at universities such as Indiana University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and the University of Chicago — are creating local projects they hope will close the gap between students» frequent use of multimedia tools and the barriers that prevent teachers from employing these tools in the classroom.

A prominent academic think tank is questioning whether three key federal compliance rules - supplement - not - supplant, comparability and maintenance of effort - pose more of a barrier to school innovation than a deterrent to scofflaw administrators.

Recent projects have included Kala's ongoing Milvia / Addison windows display in downtown Berkeley, small exhibitions in city government offices, and a large group exhibition of prints and paintings presented at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, an academic think tank on the UC Berkeley campus.

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The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

Various academic and think tank studies have found that reductions in the small business tax rate disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals who incorporate their businesses in order to reduce their personal income tax burden, split income with family «shareholders» and avoid capital gains taxes.

Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

During our recent Japan visits, we held discussions with policy - makers, private sector corporates and investors, academics and think tanks, alongside our participation in the Roundtable Japan conference.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

At think tanks and policy shops, however, the more - academic dedication to thorough and detailed data is already there.

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

The disparity was similar across each category of expert, specifically individuals (those without an organisational affiliation), academics, think tanks, and parliamentarians (excluding ministers).

We considered the geography of university academics invited to give evidence — bearing in mind that unlike other «expert» organisations like think - tanks, universities are distributed evenly across the country.

Those we place in the independent expert category are university academics, researchers from think - tanks or private research firms, parliamentarians (excluding ministers), and individuals without any organisational affiliation.

«Our approach is to work from inside the party and alongside the leadership - and to actively engage with think tanks, campaigning organisations, academics and business people.»

The Committee intends to hold public evidence sessions with thinkers and practitioners from local government, with academics and think tanks, and with ministers.The deadline for submissions is Friday 3 December 2010.

The commission also should represent the interests of the gamut of other people and groups that interact with the criminal justice system — prosecutors, judges, police and correction officers, people in prison, defense attorneys, advocacy groups, think tanks, victims» rights organizations, and academics.

He would like to stay in the academic world, but he is aware of the limited job market and will consider employment with think tanks, government agencies, and government contractors.

I approached foundations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, and academic centres through the network I had developed.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

The workshop, to be organised by the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, a government think - tank, will draw together 30 «up - and - coming industrialists», academics and civil servants.

The Wistar Institute's independent nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status creates a platform for our researchers to do original thinking and breakthrough research while also providing a community of collaboration — similar to a research «think tank» — not often found in larger medical and academic institutions.

The theoretical impetus behind the rise of the natural science think tanks is the belief that science progresses when everyone can buy the type of science they like, dispensing with whatever the academic disciplines say is mainstream or discredited science....

The recommendations were drafted by the Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola, drawn up of academics, think tank researchers, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations.

It contains the views of 35 academics, MPs, think tanks and the media.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

But, mention of a think tank report in the media may further findings from — not compete with — academic research.

Many academics collaborate with think tanks to publish and promote research.

Yet, in her conclusions, she overlooks several important additional considerations as to why think tank work may receive more coverage than academic research.

Rather than merely toiling away in the vineyards of the American Educational Research Association, writing papers for fellow academics, she recently overtook Eduwonk as the top education policy blogger, even though her competitor is a former Clinton White House aide and cofounder of a major Washington education think tank.

Insofar as policy analysts, academics, and think tanks pay any attention to the topic, they almost always do so within the fundamental structures and parameters of the forty - plus - year - old policy regime that was inaugurated with President Ford's signature.

Chris Darby Special Studies Hometown: Berkeley, California Then: Running arts and education think tank, NMBG, and working as an academic mercenary — tutoring high schoolers and consulting for students writing admissions essays Now: Continuing work with NMBG, with a focus on The Free Poster Program; working on FourthWrite, a writing consultancy founded while at HGSE that focuses on admissions essays

A just - launched project will review education reports released by private think tanks for the quality of their research, methodology, and conclusions, using expert academic reviewers.

CTER serves as a think tank of teacher education for academic research, policy consultation and international exchange, which provides knowledge support and service for teacher professional development.

Research published by the Policy Exchange think tank claimed the extra competition from free schools raises academic standards in nearby under - performing schools.

Analysis by the conservative think - tank found giving schools a 10 % increase, roughly $ 700 to $ 800 in per - pupil funding, only yielded a significant increase in one of 28 academic areas observed.

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

Kathleen Porter - Magee studies the state academic standards for the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that generally supports vouchers, charter schools and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

There are reports for all education stakeholders by national agencies (U.S. Department of Education), watchdog groups (Education Week), international collaboratives (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and academic think - tanks (Stamford History Education Group).

Since I founded the post graduate think tank Universitius, I'm heavily involved in publishing academic level books and papers.

Proposals and recommendations to reform the GSEs are being floated by government agencies and lawmakers, financial experts, academics, think tanks, and housing organizations.

Today, this multi-national company's home is a sprawling campus in Austin, Texas — an impressive think - tank where academics and a handful of Nobel Prize winners put research findings into practice.

She has been working concurrently on academic research as well as on postcolonial questions and socially engaged practices in contemporary art, and on their interaction: how socially engaged practices in contemporary art can become think tanks on postcolonial issues.

Prior to becoming an academic, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the State of Wisconsin and worked in the non-governmental sector for twenty years, including as Executive Director of the Pacific Center for International Studies, a think - tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife treaty regimes, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

A steering group was set up which included a broad range of stakeholders representing civil society, unions, academics, think tanks, business and finance.

Strange to say, the author of this happy thesis is not a steely - eyed economist at a conservative Washington think tank but a vegetarian, backpack - toting academic who was a member of Greenpeace for four years.

In November, the Science Committee held a hearing on the topic of geoengineering with government, academic, think tank, and industry witnesses.

This secretive organization, which has no web site and leaves little paper or electronic trail, is a network of Canadian neoconservative and libertarian academics, politicians, journalists and think tank propagandists.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.