Sentences with phrase «policy professor»

Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has also advocated for China to aim for peaking carbon emissions in 2030.

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.»

Joshua Cowen, an education policy professor at Michigan State University, says this smaller merit - pay approach (think $ 500 bonuses) does not appear to produce the same kinds of results as the «wholesale» multi-faceted merit pay changes incorporated in D.C. public schools.

«They had all this authority before,» said Len Nichols, a health policy professor at George Mason University in Virginia who supports the health law.

A dozen tax policy professors from major universities nationwide published a report in December titled «The Games They Will Play.»

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.»

To try to understand America's reluctance to tackle climate change, Egan and Megan Mullin, an environmental policy professor at Duke University, created a weather preference index for Americans based on past studies that look at where people move, taking employment and other factors into account.

In the heart of the meltdown in late 2008, Harvard University economics and public policy professor Kenneth Rogoff wrote in the Guardian that a «sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today's epic debt morass.»

That's the take - home message from a recent talk by UC Berkley economist and public policy professor Jesse Rothstein who came to SFU to present his latest research on using standardized -LSB-...]

«This abrupt action so early in the Trump administration puts the world on notice that all of America's traditional economic and political alliances are now open to reassessment and renegotiation,» said Eswar Prasad, trade policy professor at Cornell University.

«We don't spend anywhere close to that on my son's daily intake of a sandwich (lovingly cut into the shape of a Star Wars ship), Goldfish crackers and milk,» education policy professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach wrote in an email.

Nevin Cohen, a City University of New York health policy professor who studies SNAP, said Faso and other Republicans are perpetuating myths about SNAP.

New York University urban policy Professor Mitchell Moss, a former Bloomberg advisor, said he's not surprised by the fact.

Here, in theory, is how a state budget official and tax policy professors said it could work: An employee and an employer would have to agree to lower an employee's annual wage by the amount that employee would normally pay in state income tax.

Another speaker Thursday in Saratoga Springs, Georgetown innovation policy professor Charles Wessner, said that when SUNY Poly picks a new president, it should be someone with ties to the semiconductor industry.

Miller co-authored a textbook, Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes, with MIT technology and policy professor Nicholas Ashford.

President Barack Obama has the potential to be an extremely influential opinionmaker on controversial education policy issues according to a new survey conducted by Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Martin West, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Paul Peterson, and Harris School of Public Policy Professor William Howell.

In a new article for Education Next, Boston College public policy professor R. Shep Melnick details why the Department of Education should undertake a thorough reexamination of Title IX policy — and why multiple professional and civil rights groups agree that it's time for change.

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.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government public policy professor Christopher Avery, who recently co-authored a study on the lack of high - achieving low - income students at top schools, said that even at selective institutions, «diverse» still does not imply total representation.

May 2, 2018 University of Chicago James E. Rosenbaum Professor, Human Development and Social Policy Professor, Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University Around the country, College for All programs and policies push high school students toward four - year colleges and bachelor's degrees.

On the other hand, he's a public policy professor with two degrees from Harvard.

It's a question University of Arkansas education policy professor Gary Ritter is studying.

This analysis at The Conversation by Australian National University Public Policy Professor Peter Whiteford says it is worrying that the budget papers do not identify the costs of the drug testing proposal nor the expected savings, concluding that the proposal is symbolic, rather than designed to have a positive impact.

Ashlyn Nelson, an education policy professor at IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, says families are more aware of the program than they were two years ago.

A 2009 study, by Carnegie Mellon public - policy professor David Deming, followed up on the work of Currie, Thomas, and Garces and yielded more encouraging results.

«There's not a person in a business anywhere,» says Dan Esty, an environmental policy professor at Yale University, «who gets up in the morning and says, «Gee, I want to race into the office to follow some regulation.»

Joshua Cowen is an education policy professor at Michigan State University and he says «you always need a relative comparison» when talking about salaries.

Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.

The disproportionate amount paid by wealthy New Yorkers counters arguments by anti-Wall Street protesters who claim the rich should be taxed more, said Mitchell L. Moss, an urban - policy professor at NYU's Wagner School and former adviser to Mayor Bloomberg.

«One way to think about it is you can survive a scandal,» says John Walsh, a public policy professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Eileen Chou, a public policy professor at the University of Virginia, and her collaborators began by analyzing a data set of 33,720 U.S. households and found that those with higher levels of unemployment were more likely to purchase over-the-counter painkillers.

Jordan Matsudaira, a management and policy professor at Cornell University, has helped resurrect an old research tool and has employed it to look at the usefulness of summer school and the effect of funding from Title I, a federal program targeted at schools with a certain percentage of low - income students.

In this forum, we hear from Patrick J. Wolf, education policy professor at the University of Arkansas, Douglas N. Harris, professor of economics at Tulane, and the trio of Mark Berends, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, R. Joseph Waddington, assistant professor at the College of Education, University of Kentucky, and Megan Austin, researcher at the American Institutes for Research, Chicago.

«In the summer issue of the journal Education Next, Bruce Fuller, an education and public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, reveals how renegade teacher groups outbid even the best charter organizations to run underperforming L.A. schools their way.»

Patrick J. Wolf, education policy professor at the University of Arkansas, reports on a meta - analysis of 16 experimental studies of private - school - choice programs, which found achievement gains in reading.

About the Authors: Patrick J. Wolf is an education policy professor at the University of Arkansas.

He began his career in academe as a public policy professor.

It really created a capacity to change that did not exist, and that's quite significant,» Joseph Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College in New York and lead editor of the book «When Mayors Take Charge,» said of New York's 10 - year - old experiment with mayoral control.

«Across the United States, school districts have relied on this template to build strong systems that provide a solid education for their students, and the model makes great sense for Puerto Rico as well,» said David Kirp, a public policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

In November of 2013, I published a blog post about a «working paper» released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and written by authors Thomas Dee — Economics and Educational Policy Professor at Stanford, and James Wyckoff — Economics and Educational Policy Professor at the University of Virginia.

Bruce Fuller, an education policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on California's troubled virtual charter system, says accountability will be key as North Carolina proceeds with its virtual charter pilot.

Edward Fuller, a Penn State University education policy professor, told The American Prospect about his experience living in Texas, where his daughter, Jade, diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and ADHD, had been routinely denied special education services.