Sentences with phrase «nonprofit think tank»

Before joining MDRC in 2012, Lee was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank based in San Francisco, CA.

Bob Johansen of nonprofit think tank Institute for the Future advises people to have «strong opinions, weakly held.»

«The waters are warm — dive on in,» Janet Coit, Director of RGGI member Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management, said at an event hosted by nonprofit think tank Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).

OCEG is a global nonprofit think tank that helps organizations reliably achieve objectives while addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity, what OCEG calls Principled Performance.

The Pacific Institute is an Oakland, Calif. — based, nonprofit think tank devoted to solving the world's water needs.

Published by the Save Our Schools Research and Education Foundation, a conservative nonprofit think tank, the book characterizes the nea as «a militant trade union» fighting to perpetuate educational «mediocrity.»

The John Locke Foundation was created in 1990 as an independent, nonprofit think tank working «for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North Carolina.»

The voting system is a collaboration between the Office of the Secretary of State of West Virginia, mobile - focused voting company Voatz, Tusk / Montgomery Philanthropies, nonprofit think tank New America and the Blockchain Trust Accelerator.

On Thursday, Bellwether Education Partners — a national nonprofit think tank — released its evaluation of California's proposal.

Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) OCEG is a global nonprofit think tank that helps organizations reliably achieve objectives while addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity, what OCEG calls Principled Performance.

Scientist Christine Peterson came up with the term in 1998 at the Foresight Institute, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to nanotechnology and advances in AI.

As a 28 - year - old economist with a master's degree, Marshall joined the Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank that had just been created to perform research for the government.

Looming in the background: The state, its localities and public authorities combined have amassed nearly $ 250 billion in unfunded liabilities for retiree health care, as documented in a report issued last Wednesday by the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center, the nonprofit think tank for which I work.

Following the 2010 election, Foley launched the Connecticut Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank that publishes research and hosts discussions on topical policy issues.

The changes mirror guidelines set forth by the Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit think tank, Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF, which has advised the police department on ethics reforms as part of a three - year, $ 675,000 contract with the county.

During that time, DiTullio was suspended with pay from his job, which pays $ 77,411 a year, according to state payroll data compiled by the Empire Center, a nonprofit think tank.

The nonprofit think tank Institute for American Values, the Coalition Against Gambling in New York and other groups released several studies Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chemical companies have sometimes failed to provide the government with sufficient or relevant data to judge whether a chemical is safe for commercial use, alleges a book released at a press conference here today by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a nonprofit think tank.

That is the conclusion reached by Kun Yuan and Vi - Nhuan Le, both then behavioral scientists at RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank.

«The discrepancy was the worst in the period 1999 to 2000,» said Fuqiang Yang, a senior consultant at the nonprofit think tank Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing, who runs its climate change and energy program.

The latest comes from a new independent study of the accident to be released tomorrow by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a nonprofit think tank.

The Air Force currently supports 61 round - the - clock drone patrols in Afghanistan, Yemen and North Africa, but plans to expand to 65 patrols across the three regions by next year, Hoagland wrote in the report, which was released in August by the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C.

President Bush should establish a commission on standardized testing and create an independent agency to oversee state tests, and Congress should more than double the $ 406 million it gives states to produce the tests, according to Education Sector, a nonprofit think tank formed last year by a former aide to President...

Mark D. Millron has been elected to a two - year term as chairman of the board of directors for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a nonprofit think tank based in Half Moon Bay, Calif..

Michael Horn is co-founder of Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank focused on education and innovation.

The report, from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, draws on survey data from 2008 - 09 and from the 1990s.

Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a nonprofit think tank, writes that this plan could potentially exacerbate even further the racial and class - based segregation that many public schools face.

Her prior experience includes being CEO of the Neuhaus Education Center (a nonprofit think tank for literacy solutions) and deputy superintendent for student achievement and school improvement for the state of Idaho.

«That mentality of saying let's set proficient at a level where not too many people fail is going to kill us,» said Marc S. Tucker, the president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, a nonprofit think tank.

The two also co-founded Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank that studies education and innovation.

Michael Horn, co-founder of the nonprofit think tank Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, has studied more than 100 schools in the United States that have converted to blended learning and said Aspire has been more cautious and less innovative than other organizations.

«We want to capture the changes people make over time — it's a process,» said Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, the San Francisco - based nonprofit think tank that advocates for blended learning, and that launched the Blended Learning Universe project.

More charter schools are using blended learning to educate low - income students and help teachers deal with the range of skills in the classroom, said Michael Horn, co-founder of the nonprofit think tank Clayton Christensen Institute.

We first heard about Zaya via the Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank that has been out front in studying blended learning and student - centered design around the world.

Education Trust West, a nonprofit think tank that opposes «last - in, first - out» policies, calculated that impoverished schools are 65 percent more likely to have a teacher laid off than schools with few low - income students.

«Today's allocation of campus - based funds largely reflects a 40 - year - old model,» says the report, by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators in partnership with the nonprofit think tank Public Agenda.

-- Information provided by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), an independent, nonprofit think tank that researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States.

Lisa Snell is the director of education and child welfare at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.

Such policies «contribute to an environment in which young people who are making decisions as to whether they can go to work at a place like Google or the school down the street simply won't consider going into teaching,» said Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, a nonprofit think tank.

Homeowners need to think hard before filing an insurance claim, says Eli Lehrer, president of the nonprofit think tank R Street Institute.

It is currently bragging about being a major architect and proponent of using the federal RICO Act against executives at fossil fuel companies and nonprofit think tanks, such as The Heartland Institute.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a nonprofit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)-RSB- that engages in litigation and policy research to «hold accountable those who seek destructive government regulation that's based on agenda - driven policy making,...

Here's a bit of disappointing but not - so - surprising news: according to a new report from the nonprofit think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), U.S. schools aren't doing enough to enable technology in the classroom to live up to its potential.

«The evaluation we conducted shows that, after two years, a small amount of progress has been made» toward the project's objectives, according to the evaluation by RAND Corp., a nonprofit think tank based in Arlington, Va..